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Get that PMP bruh.
Anyone in Houston wanna explain why it's such a shyt tech city compared to ATX, Dallas, and SA? I have recruiters in those three cities blowing up my inbox but the one city I wanna move to I only get a few messages here and there and it's all for Azure even though I work with AWS.
And wassup with these Indian recruiters telling me to "Do the needful"? fukk does that even mean bruh?
I think "do the needful" means to respond and comply in a timely manner. Sounds awkward, but its understandable.
KingTut
Green diamonds like a dill pickle
I'm actually looking for a cloud position in HTX but most job postings are for sysadmins and hell desk. The majority of cloud positions seem to be DevOps and they're looking for 5 years of experience and a bunch of other ridiculous demands. Saw a post yesterday that required 7 years of experience in Server 2016
I'm actually looking for a cloud position in HTX but most job postings are for sysadmins and hell desk. The majority of cloud positions seem to be DevOps and they're looking for 5 years of experience and a bunch of other ridiculous demands. Saw a post yesterday that required 7 years of experience in Server 2016
lol man apply for the hell of it. Ignore the yrs of experience as long as you got experience in some of the hard skills
KingTut
Green diamonds like a dill pickle
Yeah, that's what I've been doing. Had a couple interviews already that went pretty well. I'll never take having a steady job for granted again because this job searching stuff is stressful.
make sure you do your due dillagence. I took a gig that seemed good but i ignored some red flags and now I'm trying to bounce.
Glass door reviews, financials that werent public, etc.
I'm actually looking for a cloud position in HTX but most job postings are for sysadmins and hell desk. The majority of cloud positions seem to be DevOps and they're looking for 5 years of experience and a bunch of other ridiculous demands. Saw a post yesterday that required 7 years of experience in Server 2016
Like the other bruh said just apply. There's like 30,000 people in this entire world that have AWS Architect. You can probably count on one hand many there are in Houston. Companies know that shyt.
psgchisolm
Pro
Just had an interview for a SOC job today. Went pretty well but I fukked up on not knowing that ftp was on port20-21. Knocked pretty much every other question out the ballpark though. My interviewer also seemed impressed that I looked him and the other interviewer up on LinkedIn and knew stuff about them. I need this job. I'm fukking tired of slavetop support.
Lord_nikon
Veteran
The only port numbers I remember is when I was studying for the networking exam
Who remembers that shyt after the test,,,, You didn't fukk up bro Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
It's crazy to see what companies pay for . Literally shyt you can learn to do off you tube. Damn, pay me all that damn money. Amazon made their AWS platform so damn sample and as user friendly as possible yet they are paying the company I work for to solve shyt for them. I literally learn that shyt off youtube.
. Literally shyt you can learn to do off you tube. Damn, pay me all that damn money. Amazon made their AWS platform so damn sample and as user friendly as possible yet they are paying the company I work for to solve shyt for them. I literally learn that shyt off youtube.
calixprynce
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I just knocked out the 98-366 Networking Fundamentals book in one weekend. If I had my 2 forms of ID I would’ve scheduled to take the exam. Once I get those documents imma smash it. Motivated to do the Modern Desktop and Server ones next
Edit: just took a 276 question practice test.. got 253 correct for a score of 91.6% . Couple of careless mistakes here and there.. will study one more day then retry it . I hate I dont have ID or Birth Certificate cuz I would strike while the iron is hot
Edit: just took a 276 question practice test.. got 253 correct for a score of 91.6% . Couple of careless mistakes here and there.. will study one more day then retry it . I hate I dont have ID or Birth Certificate cuz I would strike while the iron is hot
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I dunno why I never come in this thread. But if y'all need need to know anything and I can help, hit me up.
I've been at Cisco in Advanced Services for about 3 years. I'm on the Data Center Optimization team, I started out with UCS/Nexus/MDS now I pretty much exclusively work with ACI and trying to pick up SD-WAN. But this is probably my last year doing this. Either I make a move to sales and make some REAL money, or I attempt to make the Dev Ops switch. To get into Dev Ops I'd even go back to the customer side, because thats where the future of IT is. All other shyt is irrelevant honestly....
But if anybody is just starting out I'd say learn/study the basics, A+ > CCNA > VCP. That will probably give you a good enough foundation to land a decent job and get out of Helpdesk as fast as possible. Plus its really easy to lab a bunch of that stuff if you have a decent computer. A+ is a book exam, no need to lab anything there. VIRL or Packet Tracer is good for labbing route/switch, GNS is garbage. For VMWare you can build a nested lab in VM Workstation which is free.
Then you can branch off and start moving into something more specific. IMO there is only two routes to go if you want to make money and future proof yourself....obviously security and the other is cloud/devops. If you want to go security then you probably don't need a lot of the stuff I said, I dunno....thats not really my thing.
If you want to make the dev ops switch start with RHCSA. Being a "Windows guy" is pointless, everyone and their momma knows Windows and its a dead end. If you want to advance you need to learn Linux immediately. Once you have that and a good foundation in virtualization (that's where the VCP comes in), I'd move on to studying Openstack(you can home lab this as well). Its a really easy transition from VMWare and its super niche, so that skillset will help you standout. Then you're ready to get into Kubernetes, Docker and automation/IaaC(Puppet, Terraform and Ansible are probably the best places to start). Even if you have no real experience with those tools and just studied it at the surface level, you're still in better shape than 99.9999% of the market and with even one year of experience you can demand almost any salary you want.
I've been at Cisco in Advanced Services for about 3 years. I'm on the Data Center Optimization team, I started out with UCS/Nexus/MDS now I pretty much exclusively work with ACI and trying to pick up SD-WAN. But this is probably my last year doing this. Either I make a move to sales and make some REAL money, or I attempt to make the Dev Ops switch. To get into Dev Ops I'd even go back to the customer side, because thats where the future of IT is. All other shyt is irrelevant honestly....
But if anybody is just starting out I'd say learn/study the basics, A+ > CCNA > VCP. That will probably give you a good enough foundation to land a decent job and get out of Helpdesk as fast as possible. Plus its really easy to lab a bunch of that stuff if you have a decent computer. A+ is a book exam, no need to lab anything there. VIRL or Packet Tracer is good for labbing route/switch, GNS is garbage. For VMWare you can build a nested lab in VM Workstation which is free.
Then you can branch off and start moving into something more specific. IMO there is only two routes to go if you want to make money and future proof yourself....obviously security and the other is cloud/devops. If you want to go security then you probably don't need a lot of the stuff I said, I dunno....thats not really my thing.
If you want to make the dev ops switch start with RHCSA. Being a "Windows guy" is pointless, everyone and their momma knows Windows and its a dead end. If you want to advance you need to learn Linux immediately. Once you have that and a good foundation in virtualization (that's where the VCP comes in), I'd move on to studying Openstack(you can home lab this as well). Its a really easy transition from VMWare and its super niche, so that skillset will help you standout. Then you're ready to get into Kubernetes, Docker and automation/IaaC(Puppet, Terraform and Ansible are probably the best places to start). Even if you have no real experience with those tools and just studied it at the surface level, you're still in better shape than 99.9999% of the market and with even one year of experience you can demand almost any salary you want.
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