any Cisco (CCNA) peeps here?

[AAP]

Fuggin fly bitches...

They will make money on the costs of the boot camp, there is no guarantee they will be able to place him, and it will most likely be at the bottom of that pay scale... those are the catches...

If he has experience with PCs etc, he should probably apply for jobs at help desks / support centers... then start training for Cisco stuff or whereever he wants to go from there...

Help Desks can pay upwards of 50k, depending on cost of living... that way he has an income... plus it puts him smack dab in the middle of the field where he can network and people can introduce him to people that would hire him for his new skills...

He has a hearing impairment and isn't the best on phones. If the phone is loud, no prob. But otherwise it intimidates him. He was doing basic upgrades (memory, hard drives, etc..) before losing his job.

 

[jnuts]

Which is better?

I can't help you there. No clue. Mongo fly airplanes for living.

 

[jh1]

He has a hearing impairment and isn't the best on phones. If the phone is loud, no prob. But otherwise it intimidates him. He was doing basic upgrades (memory, hard drives, etc..) before losing his job.

There are jobs out there like that where the phones can be avoided... but most work at that level requires cycles on the phones with end users. I am sure most larger companies would accomodate his hearing issues with the appropriate equipment.


I think the CCNA is a good path, but to get good pay you need good contacts in the field and you need the expeience... go for it, but it in the mean time get your income going and start making inroads into the industry..

 

[PICK3]

I'm CIA

 

[digimon7068]

ask ryker. . .er. . .indy. . .i keep getting them confused. . .

 

[Dial_tone]

You can forget getting a related job with a CCNA cert and no experience to go with it. I had one with experience and it never made a difference. I let mine lapse in 2003.

 

[AAP]

You can forget getting a related job with a CCNA cert and no experience to go with it. I had one with experience and it never made a difference. I let mine lapse in 2003.

What can you do with it then?

 

[jh1]

What can you do with it then?

It's a good way into the field to get some experience...

 

[Dial_tone]

What can you do with it then?

Generally you gain some experience then get a certification to get a higher paying job. People that use certs to get an entry level job are pretty much looked down on unless it's an A-1 cert.

My CCNA instructor passed the CCIE written exam (which is like Jesus of Networking) but had never actually worked on a live network. He could recite routing knowledge like he had a photographic memory yet didn't know that SMTP traffic was on port 25 and POP3 was 110...pretty much the equivalent of a football player not knowing there should be 11 guys on the field.

 

[AAP]

so it is a waste going through the classes and then trying for something like 35K entry level?