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All I have is A+. My path is systems admin, I guess. It's what I'm doing at my job now.

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I'm about to start a consultant biz as a side hustle. Wish me luck in 2017 brehs, I hope everyone here aspires to what they want to do

Good luck breh. The money is there you just gotta have a lot of connections with the right people. What type of consulting you planning to do?
 

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Good luck breh. The money is there you just gotta have a lot of connections with the right people. What type of consulting you planning to do?
Preciate it breh, for now I'd like to provide basic networking, virtualization, server infrastructure. I'm sure starting out it'all be heavy in desktop/MSP Helpdesk
 

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My cousin said that and IASA opened up a lot of doors for him.

Career wise I originally wanted to eventually get to the role of a Business Architect but I'm thinking because of my creative nature and the overall flexibility of the field that Product Management may be the better route.
 

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Starting next week. I tried to get relocation but no dice since I'm literally moving 70-80 miles up north. They won't even pay for temporary housing. :francis:

But all good. Some companies don't do that unless you are going across country or something.
 
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Starting next week. I tried to get relocation but no dice since I'm literally moving 70-80 miles up north. They won't even pay for temporary housing. :francis:

But all good. Some companies don't do that unless you are going across country or something.
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think you can get a tax write off if you're moving more than 50 miles for work.
 
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I know most of yall are advanced and OG's in the cert game. But I have a question about the A+ exam, I've started studying for it around two weeks ago doing a few hours at a time daily. My primary source of info has been Mike Meyers Udemy and his CompTia A+ book(Which has got to be over a thousand pages) like seriously I stopped at like 200 flash cards because I thought I was shorting myself. you could literally make a thousand or more. Now to be honest I am learning. BUT, I need someone who has taken this test to break down what questions are primarily on it. Because seriously this is fukking too much. I could see if it was about ONE particular subject like Security but this shyt hops around a lot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 

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I know most of yall are advanced and OG's in the cert game. But I have a question about the A+ exam, I've started studying for it around two weeks ago doing a few hours at a time daily. My primary source of info has been Mike Meyers Udemy and his CompTia A+ book(Which has got to be over a thousand pages) like seriously I stopped at like 200 flash cards because I thought I was shorting myself. you could literally make a thousand or more. Now to be honest I am learning. BUT, I need someone who has taken this test to break down what questions are primarily on it. Because seriously this is fukking too much. I could see if it was about ONE particular subject like Security but this shyt hops around a lot. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Get a braindump and run the questions.
That said A+ covers a lot of ttopics, hardware, to customer support,
Sometimes when you look at it you get overwhelmed, if it helps, just focus on sections and focus on completing sections, try a section a week.
Its easy regardless of level of certs to get swamped, but just break it down and remember you eat an elephant one bite at a time, break it down in smaller sections
 
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