FatherSimp
Enough white hoes to last me thru ATL
So what do you guys think about the new CCNA cert exam from Cisco that goes live on Feb 24 2020
IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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I seen that yesterday. If its providing fundamentals needed to go down the network engineer path(that's what I ultimately want to be) then I'm all for it
xzenothunder
Banned
I'm sure my experience is one in a million but being a network engineer has been a very boring/drab experience so far.
I am grateful to be making the salary I make, but as I've progressed over the past 6 years the amount of troubleshooting and technical planning I do has plummeted to near zero. I feel like I spent an inordinate amount of time learning all of this IT knowledge to be reduced to doing the manual spreadsheet work the senior engineers don't want to do.
I've tried jumping jobs numerous times but I'm in this middle ground where I don't have enough technical experience to become a senior engineer and not enough opportunities to actually learn the technologies because the current crop of seniors still enjoy being technical too. and most of them are in their 40's 50s with at least another 10-20 years before they retire.
I got into IT because I figured Id be able to utilize my technical mindset for troubleshooting and to architect solutions, So far I've done more troubleshooting on the help-desk/desktop support and that's where I had the most fun. There's so much unnecessary overhead and bureaucracy at every company that I can't even input commands into a router or switch because they have a team in India to do it.
they Literally input commands as I watch from webex.
I thinking about changing careers in the near future even though the pay is fantastic it's honestly not worth mental faculties being wasted. Hopefully I can find another technical field that is more engaging or at least something mentally stimulating that doesn't require too much schooling.
I am grateful to be making the salary I make, but as I've progressed over the past 6 years the amount of troubleshooting and technical planning I do has plummeted to near zero. I feel like I spent an inordinate amount of time learning all of this IT knowledge to be reduced to doing the manual spreadsheet work the senior engineers don't want to do.
I've tried jumping jobs numerous times but I'm in this middle ground where I don't have enough technical experience to become a senior engineer and not enough opportunities to actually learn the technologies because the current crop of seniors still enjoy being technical too. and most of them are in their 40's 50s with at least another 10-20 years before they retire.
I got into IT because I figured Id be able to utilize my technical mindset for troubleshooting and to architect solutions, So far I've done more troubleshooting on the help-desk/desktop support and that's where I had the most fun. There's so much unnecessary overhead and bureaucracy at every company that I can't even input commands into a router or switch because they have a team in India to do it.
they Literally input commands as I watch from webex.
I thinking about changing careers in the near future even though the pay is fantastic it's honestly not worth mental faculties being wasted. Hopefully I can find another technical field that is more engaging or at least something mentally stimulating that doesn't require too much schooling.
I would just build a lab at home to practice on. Maybe your company will even give you some spare network to practice on. I've seen Network guys lab up network configurations in GNS3 before putting them in production.
Most people in IT have the exact opposite problem in their drowning in busy work. So they don't get a chance to learn anything of value. I was in that boat until I got a couple of certs and was able to finesse my way into a 6 figure job. Now I just have get up to speed on all the techology skills I missed. Hopefully my new job doesn't throw me over the deep end with zero help. I've had jobs where they give you zero training or help and expect you to fix systems you've never seen before.
It completely depends on the job you get. I went from a Network Admin job mostly doing AD shyt with a bunch of flat /24 networks to configuring vPCs, fexs, VSS, Distribution/core switches all by myself in 2 years and getting my CCNP from the job I have now. The Sr. Engineers at my job put me under their wing and allowed me to do anything I wanted on the projects i worked with them and they just helped me if i fukked up.
The Sr. Engineers at your job are failing you and you should look elsewhere
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If network engineering isn't your passion, make the switch to a different speciality.
I work with a few people and they love networking, its a passion they have.
That said programming is taking over networking , on juniper the ansible shyt, and cisco is getting automated too, so its changing.
Better start preparing for the change
xzenothunder
Banned
I'm definitely passionate about networking, It's the fact I haven't had a chance to act upon that passion.
I'm familiar with programming specifically python and powershell scripting to automate tasks, but I have trouble finding a reason to learn anything new if I won't have the oppurtunity to use it.
I've been changing jobs frequently over the past 3 years and so far everything has been exactly the same. I'm early into my career so maybe later things will change, It's rather frustrating though.
I mean keep looking until you get a position that lets you operate. You looked at the fed? I know the net engineers at the disa data sites get put to work. Something maybe to look for
I'm a contractor for the federal govt and get hands on work all the time. I'm working on a ticket to add a new vlan to a building and have to create the vlan, SVI on distribution switch and add vlan to all the port channels going to the access switches. This is a regular ass ticket on a Thursday morning.
xzenothunder
Banned
That's something you could easily automate lowkey.
xzenothunder
Banned
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I'm trying to get like the guy making 200k in this thread.
Has anyone had any luck finding remote network engineering jobs?
I'm trying to get like the guy making 200k in this thread.
Working on that now champ
Government shyt different you can't just show up with a script and put it on equipment. Change requests and advisory boards before implementation since its production equipment.
Our lab environment is a go tho
calixprynce
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just completed CCENT for Dummies with a 97% score
Im gonna knock out one more book, if i score 90+ , im taking ICND1 asap
I dont want ANY smoke with that new CCNA droppin next year
Im gonna knock out one more book, if i score 90+ , im taking ICND1 asap
I dont want ANY smoke with that new CCNA droppin next year
That new CCNA ain't gonna be that bad. They're taking out multi-area OSPF, EIGRP and BGP. Those 3 alone are damn near half of ICDN2
Ima try and take the ARCH and CCIE written before February tho.
But with the new continuing education option for CCNP, I ain't gotta take a certification exam again
Quick question:
With GCP going down a few weeks ago, do yall think that may have some negative effect on GCP or cloud computing as a whole?
With GCP going down a few weeks ago, do yall think that may have some negative effect on GCP or cloud computing as a whole?