IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Is this any good brehs? Save 45% on the CompTIA A+ Deluxe Bundle
I self studied and watched videos online (professor Messer)
Can you give me the whole rundown on what exactly I would need to do to get a job in the I.T field and how long it would take me?
I already have a basic understanding of computers from building my own and going through lots of software and hardware problems.
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Bruh. Step 1. Read through this entire thread.
To the devs in here: when you first began your career, did you receive any sort of mentorship on the job or was it more of a sink or swim situation? I've been a professional dev for 2.5 years now and I have taken most of my learning upon myself. Very little guidance at work because the M.O. is just to produce and firefight 
Cats kill me with this "Whats the quickest way to"
IF you arent willing to grind and figure out what you want to do this field is not for you and you will be exposed ASAP.
IF you arent willing to grind and figure out what you want to do this field is not for you and you will be exposed ASAP.
I think it's the ridiculous availability of resources that make people think it's a free-for-all type of situation. Speaking as a software engineer, no codeacademy or udemy bullshyt will teach you how to be a good dev within the context of an enterprise. There are no greenfield projects, but legacy products in which you have to code around and refactor a bunch of nonsensical existing code without breaking it.
Cats will lurn the hard way.
Nah im cool breh. Not reading this thread, cause I already found the answers I was looking for.
Plus I am not trying to make I.T a long term career. I just needed the most basic entry level job for right now which I found already
On the bright side, greater job security and more money for those of us who do.
Theres no quick way to anything good unless you are being handed down a position.
I started out with Messer A+, building, staying on top of the OS's , and just learning as much as I can from experience. Once I got my A+ cert. I put my resume out there. 2 things u have to be open to low pay and bad hour contract work (I was in banking 8 yrs as an assistant manager and made decent money). My first job was contract work in a NOC making 18.00 an hour working overnight 12am to 12pm. I learned to capitalize on what I learned and got another contract somewhere making 50k. Wanted more and a perm role. Worked at a hospital for one yr doing help desk hoping for the perm call. Never got it. Just got this job at an investment bank, service desk 60 k perm role.
That's my journey. Learning all the os's currently to better troubleshoot (raspian, ubuntu, sierra, and win 7 and 10).
it was like that until this year actually...where i finally starting getting props from my client and a vendor my client uses for some of the solutions ive come up with and implemented and how efficient i made certain things
it was much worse. had a situation where my boss first brought a task up to me months previously asking if it was feasible to do. he later decided to give the task to a different vendor. but that vendor couldn't do it.
so he brought it up to me again. and expressed that "if you can get this done, it'll really mean a lot to the company". so i did it. i was dedicated. i got it done in just three days. i was excited, thinking everyone would know it was clearly me that did it.
little did i know that when my boss spoke to upper management, he only mentioned me briefly. he made himself look like he was the one that did it. he said, and im paraphrasing "i gave truest the specifications. i told him what math to calculate. i this, i that, i blah blah". when he said that in front of his boss, his boss had a confused look on his face. his boss knew he wasnt a programmer. he's a manager. so his boss was looking at me, and looking at him. when my boss kept saying "i this i that", his boss would interject on some "but truest wrote the program, right"? and my boss would respond "yes, BUT I...". that was my first inkling something was awry.
there was meeting of management a couple of weeks later when the vice president of the company was talking about the accomplishment of the teams that worked for her. when she got to our team, she brought up my bosses name as the person who came up with this magnificent program (the one i wrote). and the whole room was silent. like, whatt. my name was not mentioned once. thankfully, my bosses boss spoke up and said "Truest and Jonathan" both work on that program. and the whole room started to clap.
i learned a lesson that day. i dont like anyone sharing credit in anything i did the work for. i dont like it at all. i started looking into encryption of my programs and scripts from that day on. script encryption is frowned upon in some circles of the programming world, but they can all kiss my ass with that bullsh1t.