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[Graahle]

Originally Posted by quizwhiz [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

US Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class -- EOD

Hooyah! Fair winds and following seas, shipmate.

Senior in college, accepting a military commission into the United States Marine Corps upon graduation.

[maahes]

Originally Posted by Alarti0001 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everything can be taught to anyone... Anyone can claim they know something. The cert is a guarantee that they do.

That is assuming a company is able to verify the Certs. My words of wisdom, don't throw all your money into Certs thinking they will get you a job. My team has 15 staff members currently. I don't know nor do I care about their Certs. It is all about production. If you get shit done and work your ass off you have all the power you could ever have. In the past I often have told management I would be telecommuting Mon-Thurs, only coming in for meetings and certain testing that required physical presence on Fridays.

Also for the record, I'm not trying to argue with Atari, I do agree with most of what he is saying. Just want to warn people that these Certs don't tow as much weight as it might appear from this forum.

Start studying now! You don't need to pay some company big bucks (which i feel 90% of them are scams) to get a piece of paper saying you know something. The only certs I have are the ones my companies have paid in full for.

Also if any of this sounds like I am gloating I want to make it clear that is not my intentions, yes I have gotten extremely lucky in life and my career, but I also generated a great deal of that luck myself through hard work and dedication. As you get older those qualities start to gain value to you and end up being a source of satisfaction. It's the American Dream after all. Work hard and play hard!

[maahes]

Anyone reading or posting in this forum is a nerd. Which gives you an advantage in today's world over every single non-nerd. Add some hard work and passion!

There really is some great advice in this thread!

[joppykid]

Graduated with a Bachelor's in Sport's Management to be able to work in the Front Office of Professional Sport's Teams. I am currently working for Real Salt Lake, Professional Soccer team here. I am an account executive that sells season tickets. It's one of those fields you gotta work your way up so far I can't complain. I get to sit around and talk sports all day with my co-workers.

[Rali]

I have been working in the IT field for nearly 20 years now after leaving education and not really knowing what I wanted to do. I've done it all from network installation to server administration. I hold zero certs currently, but am planning on working my way through the Cisco stuff so that my CV looks a bit better than it currently does, as I have decided to look for a new job in 2013 (been at my current company for 6 years). Was going to go the VoIP route, but after reading posts in this thread, may have to look into the security path instead.

[Tarathiel]

Originally Posted by SyanideGas [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'm a young doctor.

I'm a young lawyer

[maahes]

Originally Posted by Rali [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have been working in the IT field for nearly 20 years now after leaving education and not really knowing what I wanted to do. I've done it all from network installation to server administration. I hold zero certs currently, but am planning on working my way through the Cisco stuff so that my CV looks a bit better than it currently does, as I have decided to look for a new job in 2013 (been at my current company for 6 years). Was going to go the VoIP route, but after reading posts in this thread, may have to look into the security path instead.

Security of any type will NEVER be outsourced. I would recommend this path to loved ones if they were entertaining an IT career path.

[Alarti0001]

Originally Posted by Graahle [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Hooyah! Fair winds and following seas, shipmate.

Senior in college, accepting a military commission into the United States Marine Corps upon graduation.

I was an ET1 when I left. They tried to get me back as an O and I said unless you can put me in charge of my old Chief no deal.

[Alarti0001]

Originally Posted by maahes [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

That is assuming a company is able to verify the Certs. My words of wisdom, don't throw all your money into Certs thinking they will get you a job. My team has 15 staff members currently. I don't know nor do I care about their Certs. It is all about production. If you get shit done and work your ass off you have all the power you could ever have. In the past I often have told management I would be telecommuting Mon-Thurs, only coming in for meetings and certain testing that required physical presence on Fridays.

Also for the record, I'm not trying to argue with Atari, I do agree with most of what he is saying. Just want to warn people that these Certs don't tow as much weight as it might appear from this forum.

Start studying now! You don't need to pay some company big bucks (which i feel 90% of them are scams) to get a piece of paper saying you know something. The only certs I have are the ones my companies have paid in full for.

Also if any of this sounds like I am gloating I want to make it clear that is not my intentions, yes I have gotten extremely lucky in life and my career, but I also generated a great deal of that luck myself through hard work and dedication. As you get older those qualities start to gain value to you and end up being a source of satisfaction. It's the American Dream after all. Work hard and play hard!

Im 100% in agreement with you. You can have 100 certs and be a slob without the ability to associate with humans, and you wont get hired.

[Peatree]

Originally Posted by Rali [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I have been working in the IT field for nearly 20 years now after leaving education and not really knowing what I wanted to do. I've done it all from network installation to server administration. I hold zero certs currently, but am planning on working my way through the Cisco stuff so that my CV looks a bit better than it currently does, as I have decided to look for a new job in 2013 (been at my current company for 6 years). Was going to go the VoIP route, but after reading posts in this thread, may have to look into the security path instead.

I'd def steer clear of the VoIP route. IMO I'd look at specializing in security, virtualization and then tag on some dbase design/admin specialty and your golden.