IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[HoldThisL]

yeah I took a Business Intelligence course and learned a ton of advance Excel functions BUT no real company is using Excel like that in this day and age when there are much better tools out, and if they are that isn't a company you want to be at for long.

Think the company may want me to just keep a inventory of items too.

 

[Balla]

U can watch some tutorials on there for free right?

Would a free excel be ok?

cop a udemy excel course, but even then the advance functions of excel can easily be googled.

 

[Apollo Creed]

U can watch some tutorials on there for free right?

Would a free excel be ok?

Udemy is not free, it just provides structure. Youtube should have a ton of videos though

 

[Balla]

Ok I'll check them out

Udemy is not free, it just provides structure. Youtube should have a ton of videos though

 

[satam55]

yeah I took a Business Intelligence course and learned a ton of advance Excel functions BUT no real company is using Excel like that in this day and age when there are much better tools out, and if they are that isn't a company you want to be at for long.

What do companies use nowadays instead of Excel?

 

[Armchair Militant]

What did you brehs major in?

 

[Apollo Creed]

What do companies use nowadays instead of Excel?

Theres a lot of things you can do with excel.

Any company with massive workbooks that they use like a database is a red flag.

Minor spreadsheets to manipulate and present data is fine and normal though

 

[Tr0yTV]

Learn personal finance so you can manage your money correctly.

After you hit 6figs, read this:

Never settle. When you reach a goal. Create a new one.

 

[Mirin4rmfar]

Got a job offer brehs. Making the same as I was making before, but with more equity and better benefits.

I still need to adjust to the market. I want to get a AWS certification and also improve my programming skills. Luckily I will be working with Kubernetes, Ceph, and other fun stuff to get me going.

Breh, How hard is it to learn Kubernetes from a security perspective ?

 

[EnzoG]

Question brehs, I had printer hiccup over the last 48 hours which required me to replace my ink cartridges and when I did that and tried to initially print i got a "printer is in error state". I called Canon tech support and was told i needed to have both ink cartridges changed in order for it to work and I ended up getting the color cartridges yesterday and still had the same issue so i tried to disconnect from the network, power cycle my equipment, and then I just reinstalled my printer software and it printed a test page but did not do an initial print so I ended up restarting my laptop and it fixed the issue. So my question do you have to update the printer software or reinstall the software onto the computer in order for the printer to read the new cartridges????

 

[FreshAIG]

Been studying with Mike Meyers Udemy courses for the A+ exam. Good shyt so far

But question, how much of this will be necessary to know in real life situations for a help desk job for example? Like percentage wise?

 

[ViShawn]

Breh, How hard is it to learn Kubernetes from a security perspective ?

I know very little about Kubenetes lol.

Also that job offer I got resulted in a hiring freeze. I do more with Big Data now. I'm learning that and Kerberos a lot now actually.

 

[David_TheMan]

Been studying with Mike Meyers Udemy courses for the A+ exam. Good shyt so far

But question, how much of this will be necessary to know in real life situations for a help desk job for example? Like percentage wise?

Rare, the basics will not change much, but the specifics cahnges so much its hard to say if you will use it a certain percentage.
Main thing to adjust is your customer service skills, dealing with people and manipulate them to tell you what you actually need to know, politely, is the real skill of the help desk more so than your hard technical skill

 

[psgchisolm]

So my question do you have to update the printer software or reinstall the software onto the computer in order for the printer to read the new cartridges????

I've never had to do that with any printer I use. Did you check Google to see if any others have the same problem as you? Also were you using the drivers that came with the printer or did you download them from the website?

 

[psgchisolm]

yup.
I used Mike Myers sec+ videos on udemy and the comptia all on one sec+ book. I used to listen to Mike's videos while doing deliveries on the weekends lol

@JamieFoxxHairline why'd you neg me for this post?