IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[krexzen]

Naw, go into networking. It's rare as hell to find a black women in networking. I'm tired of seeing these ugly cacs

Unless you're busted then we don't want you

Co-sign. I've seen a few in college, but they were always ghost after the drop date. Professionally I've only seen a couple on the development and engineering side (never in networking though).

 

[GoGetMyDamnBelt_]

Co-sign. I've seen a few in college, but they were always ghost after the drop date. Professionally I've only seen a couple on the development and engineering side (never in networking though).

What is it about networking that got 'em bucking?

 

[el_oh_el]

Brehs, how common is it in this industry to be sitting on your ass with nothing to do most of the day?

I've been working at my current job for about 3 months, and outside of a few crunch time deadlines, I'm really just chilling most of the day. I imagine things will change once I become more senior but even some of the more experienced people on my team don't usually seem terribly busy.

I wish I could say the same. Working as a network engineer at this NOC has been hellish recently to say the least

 

[krexzen]

What is it about networking that got 'em bucking?

No idea. You don't really see a lot of women in networking period though. I only know of a handful of women network engineers and they are all white. The highest concentrations are definitely in project management. The next highest areas are probably web development and Helpdesk/Systems.

You do have the occasional cabling and racking of equipment (UPS devices, routers, switches) but I don't think that is it. I would say the material subject matter just doesn't appeal to them .

 

[Ice_MF_Mike]

No idea. You don't really see a lot of women in networking period though. I only know of a handful of women network engineers and they are all white. The highest concentrations are definitely in project management. The next highest areas are probably web development and Helpdesk/Systems.

You do have the occasional cabling and racking of equipment (UPS devices, routers, switches) but I don't think that is it. I would say the material subject matter just doesn't appeal to them .

I think its more that because they dont see others doing it, they don't head in that direction. Teachers and guidance counselors dont recommend those majors or courses or careers either because its "not the norm." Women end up getting pushed away from computers and mathematics essentially and into other fields and over time it becomes harder to break into the field. And the ones that do enter the field have it harder then everyone because people think they don't know their shyt or they just dont fit in being the only women in the group. No different from the reason you don't see minorities in certain fields or roles.

 

[el_oh_el]

One more thing of those trying To do CCNA..id advise getting an 1841 or 2821 and using it as your main gateway..that way when the shyt fukks up or doesn't work the way you expected, you will be forced to fix it..

 

[krexzen]

Brehs, how common is it in this industry to be sitting on your ass with nothing to do most of the day?

I've been working at my current job for about 3 months, and outside of a few crunch time deadlines, I'm really just chilling most of the day. I imagine things will change once I become more senior but even some of the more experienced people on my team don't usually seem terribly busy.

Common. It depends on the environment and your role/position. If you work for an ISP then you will probably be busier than someone doing internal work for an Enterprise (unless it's a big enterprise). I'd imagine certain government jobs would be pretty boring as well. Especially for local Gov.

I think its more that because they dont see others doing it, they don't head in that direction. Teachers and guidance counselors dont recommend those majors or courses or careers either because its "not the norm." Women end up getting pushed away from computers and mathematics essentially and into other fields and over time it becomes harder to break into the field. And the ones that do enter the field have it harder then everyone because people think they don't know their shyt or they just dont fit in being the only women in the group. No different from the reason you don't see minorities in certain fields or roles.

You probably right. It just weird because I see lots of us in Network engineering. I see more brehs in network engineering than any other position group. Just not our ladies.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Brehs, how common is it in this industry to be sitting on your ass with nothing to do most of the day?

I've been working at my current job for about 3 months, and outside of a few crunch time deadlines, I'm really just chilling most of the day. I imagine things will change once I become more senior but even some of the more experienced people on my team don't usually seem terribly busy.

In the last 6 weeks at my job, I've probably put in 3 hours of actual work and I'm not exaggerating. Most of my career has been sitting on my ass not doing anything. IMO the higher you get the less work you have to do.

But on the flip side I've had roles where I was on 16 projects at once and had meetings 5 hours a day every day.

 

[↓R↑LYB]

Common. It depends on the environment and your role/position. If you work for an ISP then you will probably be busier than someone doing internal work for an Enterprise (unless it's a big enterprise). I'd imagine certain government jobs would be pretty boring as well. Especially for local Gov.



You probably right. It just weird because I see lots of us in Network engineering. I see more brehs in network engineering than any other position group. Just not our ladies.

I'm Atlanta so I know my perspective is skewed but I see a lot of us doing DB work too. I rarely see black developers though.

 

[Silkk]

Breh/Brehette? has a long way to go if they don't know what GNS3 is and going the Networking route

Breh, I remember the first time I started studying for the A+ and they were talking about IRQ's. I sat there reading that shyt like

 

[kevm3]

Got a couple of interviews in the coming weeks. We'll see how it goes.

 

[Lord_nikon]

Got hired last week and passed the the background,,,, so now they are saying the 3rd party investigator couldn't confirm two temp jobs from 9 years ago and my high school,,so they are requesting 6 or 7 years of W-2 and I'm sure they will ask for a high school transcript as well..

fukk YOU **************** I refuse to hand over that private information,,, You confirmed my last past job that is related to this one and you confirmed my college,,, I'm fukking done,,I haven't started work yet, so you can fire me now ole nosy irritating ass fukks.
then it's part time too, fukk you

 

[Ice_MF_Mike]

Got hired last week and passed the the background,,,, so now they are saying the 3rd party investigator couldn't confirm two temp jobs from 9 years ago and my high school,,so they are requesting 6 or 7 years of W-2 and I'm sure they will ask for a high school transcript as well..

fukk YOU **************** I refuse to hand over that private information,,, You confirmed my last past job that is related to this one and you confirmed my college,,, I'm fukking done,,I haven't started work yet, so you can fire me now ole nosy irritating ass fukks.
then it's part time too, fukk you

did you already accept the role? that does seem like some bullshyt. But just hit them with them w-2s and keep lookin for something else.

 

[Lord_nikon]

did you already accept the role? that does seem like some bullshyt. But just hit them with them w-2s and keep lookin for something else.

Yeah i start one week from now,, im already hired

 

[kevm3]

Some of these requirements for job posts are insane. I'm guessing a lot of them are by recruiters who don't program. They want two years of experience in C#, Javascript, HTML, CSS, SQL, and Angular for for $65,000? Yeah right. Full stack developer with two years of experience for only $65,000?