Black man goes from 37k to 6 figures 6 certs in two years

[Mirin4rmfar]

What certs did the Nigerian dude have and what are yours?

That was my guidance, I had a few of these knocked out. My main focus was cloud.

15 Top Paying IT Certifications In 2020


My friends path was different, he was an internal project with some consulting company and after the project he jumped ship. He does cloud, programming, kubernetes etc. etv. All that through self learning.

Even if you get a help desk position, it's cool but self learn on the side and bounce lol.

 

[JT-Money]

Yep every coli nikkas wants to study cybersecurity now

New people don't realize their are a ton of IT people making shyt wages and getting worked like mules.

Cybersecurity only pays well because their is a huge shortage at the highest levels. And foreign hackers are busting these companies asses and robbing them blind.

The minute the cyber attacks stop or the shortage of talent goes away. The salaries will come right back down to earth.

The real money makers in IT are always jumping to the next hottest technology. So they jump on the money train as it's going up. If you can't keep reinventing yourself damn near every 6 to 7 years in terms of technology. You're salary will at first stagnate and after one bad layoff you might never see that kind of money again.

The ones who stay on the cutting edge are the ones making all the money. Dudes who don't eat, sleep and breathe technology are lucky if they can pay their bills in IT. So if you just regular you gonna struggle big time.

The only ones who don't best believe are kissing up to white folks. Those are the clowns you want to avoid. Because they don't want another token black on the team. I've only seen this in state and Federal Government for the most part.

 

[AAKing23]

I gotta get that network+ and ccna to make that move up

 

[David_TheMan]

For those who want an IT degree, I'd recommend Western Governors University https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/bachelors-programs.html#close. Tuition is about 7K/year.

The game isnt about just getting cwrts its about having the eight certs for what you want to do qnd dinding your niche.

Comptua ceets are entry level cwets qs well, so dont ficua on getting qll of them focus on AWS, MS365, Oracle ceets, or network aide Bricade, juniper, cisco certs.

Plus off the jump its going to be harder as q black man woman getting by in the industry indians, asians, and whites work with each other against ua, while they fukk around ita imperative we know what we are doing.

That said i enjoy the induatry, espcially thw rmf grc side

This doesn't get mentioned much, but it really is. You can rack up a gang of certs and still be stuck in help desk.

I had a A+, Network+, Security+, Project+, and a CCNA (but no degree at the time) and could not get a job in networking/security. I wasn't able to get anything beyond help desk roles until I got my degree and switched to development.

 

[UberEatsDriver]

For those who want an IT degree, I'd recommend Western Governors University https://www.wgu.edu/online-it-degrees/bachelors-programs.html#close. Tuition is about 7K/year.


This doesn't get mentioned much, but it really is. You can rack up a gang of certs and still be stuck in help desk.

I had a A+, Network+, Security+, Project+, and a CCNA (but no degree at the time) and could not get a job in networking/security. I wasn't able to get anything beyond help desk roles until I got my degree and switched to development.

what type of development?

 

[UberEatsDriver]

That was my guidance, I had a few of these knocked out. My main focus was cloud.

15 Top Paying IT Certifications In 2020


My friends path was different, he was an internal project with some consulting company and after the project he jumped ship. He does cloud, programming, kubernetes etc. etv. All that through self learning.

Even if you get a help desk position, it's cool but self learn on the side and bounce lol.

Which one out of the 15 do you recommended and how hard is it to get a job?

 

[Vaselclean]

what type of development?

Java

 

[boskey]

Salute this brother. House looks like my people’s neighborhood...

 

[Imhotep2]

Got into IT through the Military. Best decision I ever made

God bless this breh

For brehs interested in the path to IT through the Military, send me a message. This is a field black men can dominate EASILY if we just have the knowledge early on. If you are trapped working a shytty dead end job, or if you have a degree you ain't using with tens of thousands in debt and fear what the future holds, or if you arent where you want to be in life and want to make that career change to IT but you're too broke or undisciplined...send me a dm

 

[#1 pick]

You don't have to go to school for this to learn it? Cyber-security I mean. Also what if you have a felony?

I would move to DC honestly.

 

[num123]

Also CS may not be what you are into so do not forget Wireless ( which i am in), Voice, Cloud, R/S ( Routing and Switching) etc.

 

[Bushmaster69]

6 figures is just a start though. Stay hungry and make your money work for you

Bruh trust and believe that money is well invested to generate passive income

 

[Hardest Since MC Ren]

This doesn't get mentioned much, but it really is. You can rack up a gang of certs and still be stuck in help desk.

I had a A+, Network+, Security+, Project+, and a CCNA (but no degree at the time) and could not get a job in networking/security. I wasn't able to get anything beyond help desk roles until I got my degree and switched to development.

Interesting..so how did the self taught guy in the Op get in??
You basically just told nikkas..certs are useless without a degree
I'm surprised all other 6 certs coli nikkas never mentioned this

 

[num123]

You better hurry up. Because lots of companies are hiring foreigners for these roles. On my team you got two American cybersecurity professionals. While everyone else is from Poland, India, Romania or somewhere else in Asia. These foreign born professionals are starting to call all the shots. I can tell they don't like the salaries we command in the states as it is.

But nobody questions their country men being behind the majority of these cyber hacks in the first place.

While Trump just cancelled H1b visas for the rest of the year you might see an uptick in open tech jobs. But companies will soon adapt to hiring less Americans again. That's why I'm trying to make as much money as possible before it all ends. What increases salaries for Cybersecurity professionals is the constant job hopping. Other tech disciplines don't tend to have a ton of churn so salaries can get stagnant.

H1B visa suspension to pressure pay at Goldman Sachs, Google

And the kick is at least in my experience the foreign born professionals are not as good as they say or no nothing at all, especially Indians. At least 80% of Indians that i had to work with or was around did not know close to the level of what they should or nothing. Making mistakes blaming it on something or someone else, getting Indians who knew their shyt to do their work and 5+ of them trying to solve a simple issue that should take only 1 person. The only reason they were tolerated was because they were most of the time cheaper than actual professionals.

 

[Bryan Danielson]