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Originally Posted by Alarti0001
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The A+ is a very common cert. It doesn't make you competitive as everyone has it. Get your network + and maybe your MCTS and look for Help Desk Tier 1 jobs. Also, don't tell anyone your age they aren't allowed to ask you, and they would discriminate against an 18 year old.
Have you considered college? The IT field is swimming with CS and MIS degrees, so you really aren't competitive without a degree unless you are a young Bill Gates or something.
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Any one who works for me (Director of ICT for a School Division) can pass the A+ on Monday after studying over the weekend. Network+, Security+, etc. are all very baseline certs for the bottom fee.. er... entry level employees of the ICT world, Deskside Support / Service Desk Techs (or guys assembling whiteboxes in the back of a computer store). Good money compared to delivering pizza I guess.
Get a 2 year Community College IT diploma then try to find someone to fund certs in SAN and Virtualization (if you like overtime!), or get a 4 year degree in CompSci and go program in Java if you want to make nearly six figures...
And work on soft skills - technical competencies will get you a job but soft skills (communication, negotiation, requirements elicitation, etc.) will be the rocket under your ass to get you places. Lots of otherwise smart people are glass ceiling-ed into a cube pumping out code til they miss a technology curve and retire as the only guy who knows COBOL (or whatever dead language you last ramped up on) because of their abysmal communications skills. And learn to spell
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] As a few people have said here, networking can help you. Join Toastmasters!
Just my $0.02 but then again I'm the guy on the other side of the hiring table
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Regards,
Mg