IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[Obreh Winfrey]

Yeah I always get skeptical with these types of stories. While I'm sure it can happen, its extremely unlikely. Disclaimer, didn't watch the video.

 

[xXMASHERXx]

that girl had no prior exp in IT, studied python for 3 months and is earning that much? Man, I need to push myself even harder during this guaranteed shyt.

Entry level python people earning that much?

She's not making 210k as an entry level person. That 210k includes the equity she has. Second, she took some computer science classes while she was majoring in political science and took a 3 month bootcamp where she learned more programming and build projects. All that to say, the young woman knows more than just python and is probably a top notch software engineer.

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

The purpose is that you use less hosts in that particular network

So perhaps for your SIM it's a /16 network segregated into a smaller /24 networks to save the amount of hosts being used

What is the IP address of this class B network in your SIM?

The IP addresses are 172.16.11.1 and 172.16.11.2

The subnet mask that they use in the solution set when they assign ip addresses for the two VLANs is 255.255.255.0

Thank you

I thought since it's a class B, it should be 255.255.0.0

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

2nd interview for this incident handler position was just me really talking and I guess having the direct supervisors feel me out. These nikkas better give me this job

 

[Splash]

So far it's just review level stuff. But it's simple to use since you can do labs in the browser. Hopefully it gets much more difficult. This dude walks through some of the labs that's how I found out about the site.

You running linux by any chance? My openvpn not been working for 2 days now I dont got time for this shyt

 

[JT-Money]

You running linux by any chance? My openvpn not been working for 2 days now I dont got time for this shyt

Yes. Last time I connected was 2 days ago.

Just connected seems to be working for me.

Power up one of the hosts and make sure you can ping it's IP Address from your machine.
TryHackMe Documentation

 

[Splash]

Ye i tried it just can no longer load my config file despite regenerating it several times

This is gonna be a linux issue... shyt just stops workin outta no where from time to time

 

[JT-Money]

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[FreshAIG]

My thing about self-studying for Certs is that you don't gain any real connections with people and that's mainly how to find jobs in any field, it's by who you know. So you study for months to years on something with no guarantee of a job. Seems like a lot of hassle for little guarantee on the back end it will lead to a career/constant work. Seems like a lot.

 

[Lord Z]

My thing about self-studying for Certs is that you don't gain any real connections with people and that's mainly how to find jobs in any field, it's by who you know. So you study for months to years on something with no guarantee of a job. Seems like a lot of hassle for little guarantee on the back end it will lead to a career/constant work. Seems like a lot.

I saw it that way for awhile too. But I can tell you it pays off breh .

Maybe I'm in my own world but you get certs (and relevant experience if possible) so you can get in a company or open your own business later on . From the moment you get in, your first thing is to identify key people and establish a connection with them.

With certs, you get whatever experience you can and then you set up a linkedin with detailed experiences and all your certs on there. Find the type of job you want and then look up recruiters at the company and add them. Just so you keep seeing their posts and shyt.

That was my technique, I started certs in December 2013, I hit well over 100K (big in my area) only this year and right now, my company is sending me to work with one of them Big 4 companies. So my logic will be to make connections there and be exposed to those big customers (10K employees and up ).

You might feel like this is some bullshyt and all that but I'm telling you, keep going. It can get tough and when that happens, take a break. Don't study for about 2 weeks if you need to but keep going. There's a whole lot of money in this game that we need to get

 

[GollyImGully]

My thing about self-studying for Certs is that you don't gain any real connections with people and that's mainly how to find jobs in any field, it's by who you know. So you study for months to years on something with no guarantee of a job. Seems like a lot of hassle for little guarantee on the back end it will lead to a career/constant work. Seems like a lot.

I see where you coming from because thats how it is in a lot of other fields (not sure if you work in IT or not) and I would agree with you fully if I didn't do the opposite

I haven't used any outside connections at all, self taught in everything I know and have reached over 6 figs in 6 yrs (I think I could have hit this quicker with a strict plan earlier on). IT is one of those fields where you will only go as far as your hustle.

You gotta want it and you gotta be smart when finessing your resume and how you speak in these interviews. For example, lets say you are studying for a cert (AWS cert), take the topic you are learning (VPC's) and put that shyt on your resume. You already read about it, can speak on it and probably set it up in a lab...Who can tell you that you didn't learn it at this point?

Now when you in an interview they are going to ask you about VPC's you can think back like "I did this shyt like 10x already this is easy"

Also you gotta look at whats in demand skillset wise. With the COVID-19 going on anybody with vpns/cloud/networking/security exp on their resume is getting they phone blown up right now

The hardest part will be getting that entry job with little to no exp and the hiring manager will be focused on 3 things at this time

- Do you know how to talk to people?
- ability to learn
- is this guy a dikkhead?

 

[psgchisolm]

2nd interview for this incident handler position was just me really talking and I guess having the direct supervisors feel me out. These nikkas better give me this job

I have a 2nd interview for a CIRT this Friday. Are you a Maryland breh?

 

[Rice'N Beckford]

I have a 2nd interview for a CIRT this Friday. Are you a Maryland breh?

Im in DC

 

[Kwabena]

Nobody wants to network with you if you don’t know shyt.

 

[ADK]

I was bout to come in here and say I’ve been able to do this on my own without my teacher and it made me realize I don’t need him for a lot of shyt. The last few posts made me realize the connections and mentorship is what’s important though.

I’ve been able to study better by myself than the 2 hour classes I get.