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DJSmooth

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nah breh you gotta like what you do for IT..its no different..and making good money in IT doesn't come quick either

Cant agree with you there

If you do no way you ever move up....Youll be stuck on help desk resetting passwords :scust:

Awful advice fam...you cant do this for the money. You'll get no where fast

Lol if yall say so I got a friend that's a Data Scientist he doesn't necessary love IT but he works hard and is smart so he makes good money.

I got friends at Georgia Tech that don't love what they study but they work hard and are smart so they are good at what they do.
 

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Just wanted to say thanks to all the brehs that contribute to this IT forum on a daily basis:salute:, ya really gave me the motivation to chase this 6 figure lifestyle:takedat:

Out in Dallas TX right now for NFL training and it wouldnt be possible without hearing the multiple stories from ya :ufdup: salute!
 

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Just wanted to say thanks to all the brehs that contribute to this IT forum on a daily basis:salute:, ya really gave me the motivation to chase this 6 figure lifestyle:takedat:

Out in Dallas TX right now for NFL training and it wouldnt be possible without hearing the multiple stories from ya :ufdup: salute!
You in the NFL & do IT?:dwillhuh:
 

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Well, this sucks. My boss dropped a bomb on me today. He got a new job and he'll be gone in 2 weeks. When I first started, he made this big ass spreadsheet with a bunch of stuff I was gonna learn. And he said it was just the basics\the beginning. There was even talk of me having learning time on the clock. I've only been on the job since April and I missed a month because of jury duty.

This puts me in a strange position. I'm going to be the only support person in the NYC office until he gets replaced. How long is that gonna take? All the other more senior Ops people are DevOps engineers and in other countries. We have a video conference at 8pm* every Mondays and Wednesdays (i attend on Wednesdays) and everything they talk about is over my head.

My boss is a good guy and I wish him the best... but this sucks.

*Yes, this is outside of normal work hours for me
 
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I've dealt with it variations of it for at least 5 years. Mobile security, firewalls, GPO, AD, Cloud security, etc
Nice. I just had a conversation with my boss letting him know I need more technical experience. How did you go about getting these different jobs and higher pay, I'm looking to get more technical in the security field but lack the job experience.
 

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Nice. I just had a conversation with my boss letting him know I need more technical experience. How did you go about getting these different jobs and higher pay, I'm looking to get more technical in the security field but lack the job experience.
Tbh everything i've learned came from work/learning on the job.

One job i was working phone tech support for Sprint for almost 2 years, so that would be under the telecom domain. Making $9.75 plus sales bonus

Then i worked two years at a ISP call center doing tech support/basic internet security making $11.72. Got fed up with that shyt after my manager at the time told me about missing too many days and if i wanted to be here long term(I didn't) i couldn't miss any more days, s i finally forced myself to get my A+.

Once i passed that i started putting out feelers to Houston and got a great response. I actually landed a job out there at $17 an hour but couldn't afford the move. But at the same time ended up getting an offer in Baton Rouge at $28 an hour for what was supposed to be 2 months but went for 15.


Thats where i really learned a lot of in depth shyt as far servers, desktop, security, encryption, medical software, etc.
 

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Fed up with my current situation. Changed me to this wack ass 12-9 schedule. Every fukking day my manager sends out some annoying ass email/makes changes to shyt that don't need to be changed. I fukking HATE having a female manager:snoop:

This is my CISSP motivation :fire:
 
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