IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[GollyImGully]

The first job they gave me was shoveling sand into some pit for $8/hr. How they hell is somebody suppose to do that for 40 hours a week? I quit that night. never touched the shovel..lol

 

[tater]

Thanks for the recommendations! I passed sec +!

 

[havoc]

Thanks for the recommendations! I passed sec +!

 

[el_oh_el]

Not an IT job. But when my first IT job dried up( contract ), I needed to do something. So I went back to warehouse jobs. The first job they gave me was shoveling sand into some pit for $8/hr. How they hell is somebody suppose to do that for 40 hours a week? I quit that night. never touched the shovel..lol

My current job has a warehouse in the back( just filing records that were never moved to the mainframe or something ) and sometimes I get flashbacks of those days when I was working in a warehouse whenever I walk past our warehouse.

IT Brehs. I don't care what anybody says, we are truly blessed. Cause god knows there is some truly shytty jobs out there with the pay to match them.

I think about this often

 

[Kitsch]

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[TRFG]

delete

 

[BobbyBooshay]

For my brehs trying to break into programming. These skills are hot right now

- C#/.Net
- Team foundation server
- Coded UI & Microsoft test manager
- Azure

Add Python to that too

 

[Apollo Creed]

Brehs keep me in your thoughts, if all goes well I will speak more about it later.

 

[Pyrexcup]

any of you ever get ScrumMaster Certified?

no but currently getting my prince2 cert which is a project management cert too

 

[Ice_MF_Mike]

How valuable do yall think a CCNA:Security cert is? The security realm is pretty dope to me

Not terribly valuable but its very easy if you already have your CCNA so its really a no brainer.

 

[Scott Larock]

I realize I don't really like networking, I need to be in class or something, trying to read this ccent book by myself is grade A boring, I lose interest. I need equipment and examples in front of me. Damn ccna course is 2500, if I waste my money motherfukkers better give me a job after I finish, I'm broke as fukk.

I need something a little more interesting to learn if I'm go the self stufy route.

 

[Scott Larock]

help desk or a job at best buy.

What you need to do a Verizon Technical job? I applied twice and I was turned down.

Network Operations Center Technician - Temple Terrace, Florida - Verizon Careers

I got the A+ only too.

 

[Scott Larock]

Can we get a complete "guide to getting paid" in IT thread? Complete with paths, certs and so forth? This thread is too long and the same questions are somewhat rehashed? I'm throw in all my coli cash.

 

[Scott Larock]

@bdizzle opened my eyes...that's what im going for

know a dude that did that back when oracle was hot, oracle programmer back in the early 2k

175 a year min

 

[Scott Larock]

@Silkk

Did the N+ help you? Some coli dudes told me don't waste the money. I can probably pass it right now.