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lil lugz`

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This one is going out to those in the Networking/Systems fields as careers.
Im getting out of the Army soon and going back home to go to school. I was thinking of getting back into the Computer field, but there are a lot of options as to what I specifically want to do.
So my questions would be:
What Networking/Systems are good career choices?
Which areas get paid the best?
How many hours a week do you work?
Do you like/love what you do?
If you have any other recommendations or some knowledge you can drop, I would appreciate it.
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1.) Same story/Different game. Neither one is better until very, very high, then Network Admin edges System Admin out.

2.) Neither are ground breaking (50-90k locale depending)

3.) I work 50 +

4.) No
 
I didnt like networking.. I went to school, got some of my certs..

I now have a career in construction. fuck working with computers for a living.
 
To be honest, virtualisation is where its at. I have started VMWare consulting and I can earn more in a week than I did busting ass for a month as a network architect.
 
lil lugz` said:
Why?
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when i was younger i was pretty hardcore into computers. I enjoyed them and i thught that making a living doing something that i loved would be awesome. I went into networking because it was something that was big at the time and paid a lot.

The more that i got into it the more i hated it. For me i had turned something i loved to do as a hobby into a chore..

I personally really enjoyed construction. My father owned a company and i had always enjoyed how i could be outside and every day was something completely different. I hired on with a very large company in my area and climbed the ladder. Even after doing it for 12 years each day is still something new and different.

Now i just use computers at work for ACAD and emails and youtube when im bored. :roller:
 
-Dark-Angel- said:
when i was younger i was pretty hardcore into computers. I enjoyed them and i thught that making a living doing something that i loved would be awesome. I went into networking because it was something that was big at the time and paid a lot.

The more that i got into it the more i hated it. For me i had turned something i loved to do as a hobby into a chore..

I personally really enjoyed construction. My father owned a company and i had always enjoyed how i could be outside and every day was something completely different. I hired on with a very large company in my area and climbed the ladder. Even after doing it for 12 years each day is still something new and different.

Now i just use computers at work for ACAD and emails and youtube when im bored. :roller:
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This is my story, only I haven't made the drastic career change yet. I'm a network admin and find my job very unfulfilling. Woo right click on shit all day long woo.
 
I just started doing "ecommerce" aka I basically play in excel and do database/publishing shit for a large company.

It's boring as hell and if I had started doing this when I was younger I would probably have offed myself already. Even at this juncture I doubt I would tolerate doing this for the next year and a half/two years while I finish school.

Even with great pay I don't see how people can stick to doing these kind of jobs. Prior I was an auctioneer and had an appraisal company. It didn't pay as well but it was way fucking more exciting.
 
DMAUL said:
security is where the money and fun is at
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You have to be good to make the money. There's a lot of idiots out there who think they can run a pentest kit against a network and call themselves security analysts, but unless you can actually go deeper and read (and understand) configs and point out flaws/improvements and other things then you're just ripping people off.
 
Was more or less in Dark Angels' shoes, four years of college down the drain :)



Now I do whatever the flavor of the month is for me.
 
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