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lightskin jermaine said:
i'm going hard this semester with the networking:wow: we had a STEM career fair but the only agency to show up for what i was interested in (MIS) was NSA and their representatives looked like they hadn't taken a bath in a while:scust:

rackspace is giving students a tour of their facility soon so i'm going to sign up for that. my school has a couple help desk positions open so i'm going to apply for that today.
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Rackspace is a pretty cool company. Their only downside is that they pay a bit less than the market rate, but they have excellent benefits. Their main office in San Antonio is in what was once a mall.
 
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bdizzle said:
Posting on the coli. And no I'm not bullshytting.

But it depends on your role. Sometimes you'll be doing tickets all day. Sometimes you'll be doing project work. Sometimes you'll sit on your ass all day and do nothing. In my current gig (not a security role) I literally don't do shyt all day. I show up 10-1030. Go to lunch at 12. Then break out and go home at 330-4 (sometimes earlier). I'm making 125k to not do shyt and it's starting to get boring :francis:

My last security gig I was on bout 15 projects and had meetings all day. I actually enjoyed that job a lot because of all the shyt I was involved in. Other jobs I've worked for 6+ months and put in MAYBE 40 hours of actual work.

Either way make sure you invest in a gym membership. This cert life will leave you :flabbynsick:
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No doubt. I was hired at my current gig to support a PLM software called teamcenter. I spend about 3 hours a week actually do work related to that. A few hours spinning up vms, working with UCS hardware, a little SAN work here and there but mostly I'm sitting on my ass watching CBTnugget videos. My dream is to eventually do some consulting or even contract work (maybe with security). I know u get tired of hearing it but salute for dropping these gems here. If it only even helped 1 brother (gotta be plenty more):salute:
 
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Silkk said:
Yeah, it's definitely interesting. This not the type of shyt you can pass on a 1 month cram session tho.

I need to get a windows laptop so i can start fukking with this powershell too. My Macbook too :flabbynsick: at this point for a virtual machine :mjcry:
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I need to upgrade the RAM from 8gb to 16gb, hopefully that helps. Running Parallels puts my macbook into :flabbynsick: status.
 
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se1f_made said:
No doubt. I was hired at my current gig to support a PLM software called teamcenter. I spend about 3 hours a week actually do work related to that. A few hours spinning up vms, working with UCS hardware, a little SAN work here and there but mostly I'm sitting on my ass watching CBTnugget videos. My dream is to eventually do some consulting or even contract work (maybe with security). I know u get tired of hearing it but salute for dropping these gems here. If it only even helped 1 brother (gotta be plenty more):salute:
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Have a plan, stay focused, and you'll get there breh. My mission is to make IT a black industry so we can take over the cert game :blessed:

And I didn't even know Cisco started selling server hardware :ohhh:
 
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Have I ever mentioned that I hate having to deal with VOIP? How did I get stuck with this. :snoop:

My job is to basically find out a way to make all our shytty old analog fax machines work with our VOIP system because management decided they shouldn't have to pay for analog lines anymore, but a lot of users are still stuck in 1980 and insist on sending faxes. Had some success with an ATA, but it's still kind of a crapshot. The thing that sucks about it is that it's not exact...it's not a case of it working or not, I can get most of them to go thru but some still occasionally fail due to packet loss/jitter/latency/noise on the line/a telephone pole down somewhere/a crappy fax on the other end/shytty phones lines somewhere/etc. Sucks.
 
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bdizzle said:
Have a plan, stay focused, and you'll get there breh. My mission is to make IT a black industry so we can take over the cert game :blessed:

And I didn't even know Cisco started selling server hardware :ohhh:
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Yep, it's a game changer. Memory/cpu, network interfaces, drives and fans are all built into seperate blades that all fit into a chassis makes swapping hot spares easy as hell. No more extended downtime for failed hardware:banderas:
 
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acri1 said:
Have I ever mentioned that I hate having to deal with VOIP? How did I get stuck with this. :snoop:

My job is to basically find out a way to make all our shytty old analog fax machines work with our VOIP system because management decided they shouldn't have to pay for analog lines anymore, but a lot of users are still stuck in 1980 and insist on sending faxes. Had some success with an ATA, but it's still kind of a crapshot. The thing that sucks about it is that it's not exact...it's not a case of it working or not, I can get most of them to go thru but some still occasionally fail due to packet loss/jitter/latency/noise on the line/a telephone pole down somewhere/a crappy fax on the other end/shytty phones lines somewhere/etc. Sucks.
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I know what u sayin breh, I'm glad I don't have to support that stuff anymore. Easily worst part of IT
 
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bdizzle said:
My mission is to make IT a black industry so we can take over the cert game :blessed:
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The position i'm about to start one of the guys who interviewed me was black soon as he saw me he went like:gladbron:

Told me straight up "I can tell you already know your shyt. I'm putting in a good word for you either way cause we got to look out for each other:myman:. So forget all this lets kick the shyt for a while, did you see the Knicks game last night?"

I was like :ahh: Because I've had a network security admin just straight :mjpls: me at an interview before and I just couldn't understand why.
 
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