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Thor · 06-14-2012, 03:14 AM

I made this change about 4yrs ago, I was tired of sales and anything to do with a typical office job, I needed a more problem solving and type of work that kept me interested.

So I went back to school, got my MICTP, CCNA, and now recently am working on my Red Hat Certified Engineer, to get my linux&unix skills up.

I work something a little bit like a help desk, but my main job is monitoring our servers, phone systems, and lots of stuff that requires ideally a broad knowledge of stuff. I can be troubleshooting a win2k3 server and next moment a fedora machine.

Its like the help desk in that you learn soooo much, and its also a great way to see where you want to end up in the company, because for me its not just what I'm doing but the people I work with, and I have identified 1 deparment I really want to end up in, and found 2 that I would rather not be a part of.

Get your MCITP, maybe CCNA as well, those 2 are great building blocks and at least pickup a base linux certification, linux + or of course Red Hat.

06-14-2012, 03:14 AM	#25
Thor God of Hating Twitter Join Date: Apr 2006 Exp:	I made this change about 4yrs ago, I was tired of sales and anything to do with a typical office job, I needed a more problem solving and type of work that kept me interested. So I went back to school, got my MICTP, CCNA, and now recently am working on my Red Hat Certified Engineer, to get my linux&unix skills up. I work something a little bit like a help desk, but my main job is monitoring our servers, phone systems, and lots of stuff that requires ideally a broad knowledge of stuff. I can be troubleshooting a win2k3 server and next moment a fedora machine. Its like the help desk in that you learn soooo much, and its also a great way to see where you want to end up in the company, because for me its not just what I'm doing but the people I work with, and I have identified 1 deparment I really want to end up in, and found 2 that I would rather not be a part of. Get your MCITP, maybe CCNA as well, those 2 are great building blocks and at least pickup a base linux certification, linux + or of course Red Hat. __________________ Allskonar fyrir Aumingja!!