IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)

[pickles]

Hello coli brehs. I am in the Health Profession, I know y'all talk about A+ certs and that is the start but where can I go after that? What certs could I do after A+?

 

[GollyImGully]

Hello coli brehs. I am in the Health Profession, I know y'all talk about A+ certs and that is the start but where can I go after that? What certs could I do after A+?

Depends on which area in IT you wanna get into. Figure that out first.

Systems Engineer?
Network Engineer?
AWS or Azure Cloud engineer?

 

[pickles]

Depends on which area in IT you wanna get into. Figure that out first.

Systems Engineer?
Network Engineer?
AWS or Azure Cloud engineer?

How does one do that?

Thanks for the response btw.

 

[GollyImGully]

How does one do that?

Thanks for the response btw.

You gotta see what interests you. To do that?

My opinion personally I feel once you get your 1st job and get to touch different technology and brush shoulders with the different teams then you can get a better idea of where you wanna be. That a give you a blueprint to what cert you wanna get next

 

[pickles]

You gotta see what interests you. To do that?

My opinion personally I feel once you get your 1st job and get to touch different technology and brush shoulders with the different teams then you can get a better idea of where you wanna be. That a give you a blueprint to what cert you wanna get next

Repped

 

[se1f_made]

Just spent my income tax check on 2 workstations, dell T5600 3.30 ghz 2 x quad core Xeon E5-2643 chip. My lab will be lit

Invest in your craft if u can brehs

 

[Silkk]

Just spent my income tax check on 2 workstations, dell T5600 3.30 ghz 2 x quad core Xeon E5-2643 chip. My lab will be lit

Invest in your craft if u can brehs

Bumped my macbook from 4GB to 16GB of ram last week. Flicks be coming up super quick

 

[pickles]

Coli IT gawds let us discuss



SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Credential

The courses for this certification costs about $3000

Can coli brehs show me thrifty ways to prepare for this test or should I pay for those courses?


ETA: Like I said before, I don't know shyt about this IT stuff

 

[Sonny Bonds]

Have you put your resume out yet to test the waters?

I've applied to a couple of places, but not many.

As much as I complain, there are some good things about my job. The lack of oversight means I can take my time with the few tickets that I do get. This week the majority of my time has been trying to setup a raspberry pi office jukebox that interfaces with the chat app. That isn't me messing around, I was told to do this because other offices have it.

And I'm an admin in everything: Windows server, Jira, G-suite, and AWS. From looking into the techs in the other offices, there's opportunity for me to do more, I just have to learn a lot.

 

[Ikwa]

Just quit my new job after a month there cos I wasn't feeling the team and environment.

Already got myself a better certs job at a bigger company.

The 6 certs life gives you options

 

[gottah8me]

Hello coli brehs. I am in the Health Profession, I know y'all talk about A+ certs and that is the start but where can I go after that? What certs could I do after A+?

If you want to get into the DoD contracting get that Sec+ that way you are already 8570 compliant

 

[Friskies]

Are these Certs in addition to a bachelor degree or in place of it?

 

[Apollo Creed]

How do guys handle being stretched thin because you are good at your job? Do you use it to negotiate a bigger raise come time for merit increases OR if you dont plan on being somewhere too long use it to built your value so if you test the markets for a new gig and get an offer your current company will match or exceed? Trying to see playing the long game (somewhat long game) or trying to finesse right away?

 

[se1f_made]

How do guys handle being stretched thin because you are good at your job? Do you use it to negotiate a bigger raise come time for merit increases OR if you dont plan on being somewhere too long use it to built your value so if you test the markets for a new gig and get an offer your current company will match or exceed? Trying to see playing the long game (somewhat long game) or trying to finesse right away?

Second one, management won't give you a raise just because u feel like u deserve one. Give them an ultimatum and be ready to bounce if they don't meet your demands

 

[se1f_made]

Are these Certs in addition to a bachelor degree or in place of it?

I've got a bachelors but that's usually interchangeable with 6+ years of exp