$50 pass to wear shorts, that's comedy. I could probably wear basketball shorts to most of my clients if I really wanted, but I always just throw some jeans and a polo (maybe a t-shirt) if I'm feeling comfy. Occasionally I'll need to wear khakis and some boat shoes
i still cant believe it my co worker asks me everytime i see him, when i'm going to get my shorts pass but i just cant do it. i'm good with my polo, jeans, and roshes. i wear a button down maybe once a month and if i do, its not even tucked in lol.
Makes sense. Most of the PMs for the contracting companies I have worked for have no IT background at all (and similar in other fields) though. It's almost strictly a leadership/management/overhead position. And they get PAID. They'll then just appoint somebody as I.T Dep't Lead or whatever. I got a chance to see first hang a little bit of the finaggling and shadiness that goes on with securing Government contracts to begin with, which again benefits the PMs, but like how guys where given phantom positions (and real money though) to be named as head of a company bidding for a contract so now the company is Minority owned, or Veteran owned, or women owned, etc. and PMs who were on SCA contracts where even though the contract changed they had to retain all the same workforce still submitting paperwork for themselves as the refferrer of all those employees and collecting that bonus when they really reffered or hired no one, staff just transferred over when the new company won the contract.
I've actually just begun studying for the CCENT exam. Got my book by Todd Lammie along with a few simulators and some hardware here at my desk.
I'm looking to start working on getting certifications. What do you guys recommend as a good starting point? or a cert that anybody in the IT field could/should have? I'm currently a SQL Developer but I want to work with servers more. I'm also looking into an internal position as a System Engineer at my company.
www.examcollection.com bro, some people rock with the Pass4Sure's but I aced the Windows 7 tests after like 10 days of studying maybe 20 minutes per with examcollection. Army just up and out of nowhere one day decided "Get Windows 7 text in 60 days or be fired," so taking a college course or reading the whole book wasn't an option. We don't even go a lot of the stuff in there, or not the way it is in the test. Word has it Server 2012 is the next one they're going to spring on us with an unrealistically short timeline
When you're gonna get your shorts pass, that's too funny bro. Jeans are just as comfortable so that's no biggie. Roshes as well. IT is known to have a loose dress code to it really ain't no thang. That's how I got my CCNA. I passed the ICND1 (CCENT) and then finished the second half ICND2 for the CCNA. You need to know how subnets work very well, that was what most of CCENT consisted of. Know all of the layers of Cisco OSI. Get comfortable with Cisco's IOS too, those simulators work very well for that. Nothing beats having physical infrastructure to test with though. There are many CCNA one day training sessions that let you get your hands dirty with their gear and that teach you main topics that will be covered during the tests.
so you studied from this site, took a bunch of practice exams and went to take the actual cert test?? lol yeah, but we specialize in consulting too so there's constantly clients around, hence why i thought the shorts pass was funny.
From what I have heard from people using the examcollection site VCE files, they aren't nearly s accurate as they were when I did Windows 7 and Prometric and the testing companies are changing the tests quicker to combat the popularity. But basically you just find the link for the test you are taking taking, click the VCE file page to download it and read the comments at the bottom. It will be from recent testtakers and be like, "100% accurate, just took the test 6/1/2014, these were all the right questions," or maybe the opposite and tell you they changed the test or added questions, notes like that. By no means am I advocating you not learn the material as opposed to memorization and studying just hte test, but again in my circumstance it was the only option to do it this way. I don't want people to think I am @sladewilsonin' out here.
Not familiar with FileMaker. I was aiming more towards Java, since the company is very, VERY closely related to Oracle. Photoshop is 1337
I haven't done any PS work for NT in a MINUTE I mostly do volunteer graphic design for my church and for my instagram bro FileMaker is GUI based programming.. its almost NOT programming
would love to be in the field. on the outside looking in sadly. haven't gotten off my *** and made it happen yet.
Interesting thread. I got into a vocational class for computer network administration for my last HS yr, so hopefully I learn something good. You guys have any advice for getting your feet wet in this field?
whachu waiting for? IT is growing everyday. That sounds like an awesome intro to IT. Networking is a huge part of IT and you'll need at LEAST basic networking skills to be successful in this field. Study for a Cisco exam, it has lots of Cisco proprietary material but also includes standardized networking concepts. Ask your teacher if you guys can get into the server room/network closets and get your hands on some equipment. Getting your hands dirty is the best way to learn. I learned 90% of what I know on the job the past year I've been employed just by getting thrown in to fires and having to learn/sponge information quickly and in large amounts.
We only have 1 Windows Server 2008 server that is ancient in relative computer terms, basically only used for more secure file storage for sesntive information, we have 1 company public nas for our company that is used heavily but that requires no administration. No virtual hosts, whenever I get time around to rebuild the server I will play with the idea of virtual servers for different functions (I want to implement a opensource crm or erp system but I rather run them virtually). I may think about running exchange on the server whenever it is rebuilt. Our network is pretty simple Router -> 48 port gigabit switch - > 24 port 10/100 switch (will be replaced when I get the time to to another identical 48 port gigabit switch). Most of the network is gigabit, the people who did the networking for the building did a great job. I am blessed to work at a company were most people are pretty smart, we make optical elements for laser systems so most people are science people. This is our website www.optigrate.com . It def needs some work, I maintain it but I want to switch to a real CMS platform just for the sake of getting up to date. Also thinking of something like sharepoint for our company but really not sure, I hate using paid business software because of the price, rather keep it open source. I had some simple fun projects so far, I set up a off-site storage back up. Basically had our CEO set up a nas at his house and set up a openvpn server and have our windows server synch nightly with the offsite nas. Something so simple that only cost maybe $1,000 would cost maybe that same amount yearly from other vendors. Also about to set up our time clocking system, thinking about setting up a simple mysql database to sync with our time clock system as our companies first test with databases for operational purposes. Currently we we are using mainly excel files for documents which is really a horrible system to go on but its what they were on when I get there. We sometime run into issues with excel files being treated like a database (excel files can bloat up from 5 mb to 1 gb sometimes from being shared workbooks). It's just so hard to transition a company from such a older style of data management to something new.
How did you get into SQL developing and what is the typical day for you. Im pretty good with SQL and i really enjoy databases but I have no idea to transition into making it a job position.
This is me. My homie is doing programming right now, he gets paid a much being an intern as I do being a full-time employee. One of these days i'ma sit him down and pick his brain. Funny thing is I was by far the smarter/better grade getting one in high school, so I'm pretty sure I can do it.
WS 2008 R2 is my favorite server OS right now. 2012 is okay with a Start menu replacement, but 08 is perfect. It's great for domain controllers, which it sounds like you're using it for. What kind of router are you using? That website is nice and simple, I like it. WordPress and Drupal are awesome and easy GUI friendly CMS platforms. Ever considered using Windows SBS (I've never recommended it before, I have one client that uses it and I hate it) and converting the old 2008 box into a test/dev/app server? SBS includes Exchange and Sharepoint and is basically just an all-in-one server solution. NAS are nice and user friendly. I usually see SANs at the clients I go to. I've never had to configure one, but iSCSI seems straight forward. OpenVPN is nice also, I have a DD-WRT router at my hosue that I use for an OpenVPN connection. I also use a Windows Server 2008 VPN at my house for L2TP connections. Have you ever configured Windows RRAS? Easiest VPN setup ever. You should run Exchange on a seperate box, that's kind of standard. Exchange is too much to mix in with other server roles and features, and for the price you'll be paying for an Exchange license you might as well invest in a new server. Maybe get a new VHOST box, they're relatively cheap, and create a virtual domain controller and then use the old 2k8 server you have now for Exchange. Then you can build virtual servers on the new VHOST without affecting the DC or Exchange server.
Programming is so boring I can't stand it. Once you get comfortable with a language it becomes easier to be creative though. It can also be very lucrative if you have good ideas or work for a big company.
Im a software engineer intern for a company in NYC doing oracle and .NET development. Looking for a full time, need to continue practicing my algorithms and data structures so I can land one. Had dozens of interviews with almost every company you can think of, its really frustrating having all of these interviews and nothing coming of it.
I'm doing a 6wk course in SQL right now. Using MS Access for the course since I don't have SQL Server and the other ones. Trying to use those skills and Excel to enhance my resume for a project manager position. Yall that knew yall wanted to do IT are good to go, I'm 28 and starting from scratch with this since the lawer route didn't pan out. I feel SQL is simple but the examples this teacher is kind of all over the place. My Excel teacher has a whole lesson guiding u to teach u a technique every lesson. Considered gettin an MSIS if I went back to school but not trying to take the GMAT/GRE and the prereqs required