any Cisco (CCNA) peeps here?

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i will enlist him in the military (i get 2 grand).

 

[AAP]

i will enlist him in the military (i get 2 grand).

hearing impairment will keep him out. (he's tried)

 

[Dial_tone]

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

It's a waste because anything Cisco-related is not really entry level to begin with. There is a fuckton of IT knowledge building up to that level that someone in the routing/security are is expected to have.

It's like trying to get an entry level job as a college football offensive coordinator. There's a whole bunch of steps before you get to that point.

Bottom line - the only entry-level IT job is help desk support. An entry-level Cisco job is actually mid-level viewed in IT as a whole. I was in the business for five years before I got anywhere near a Cisco switch, router or PIX.

 

[AAP]

It's a waste because anything Cisco-related is not really entry level to begin with. There is a fuckton of IT knowledge building up to that level that someone in the routing/security are is expected to have.

It's like trying to get an entry level job as a college football offensive coordinator. There's a whole bunch of steps before you get to that point.

Bottom line - the only entry-level IT job is help desk support. An entry-level Cisco job is actually mid-level viewed in IT as a whole. I was in the business for five years before I got anywhere near a Cisco switch, router or PIX.

Well I guess that limits his options. He was doing basic hardware maintenance prior to this. And was doing SQL work in Austin TX. But down here there isn't really anything that is just SQL related... they want you to have to ASP, VB, C++, Crystal REports, etc...

 

[Dial_tone]

Hell, if he knows SQL tell him to get an Oracle DBA cert. SQL is everywhere. He's got to be marketable with that.

http://www.oracle.com/education/lang/no/certification/index.html

 

[AAP]

Hell, if he knows SQL tell him to get an Oracle DBA cert. SQL is everywhere. He's got to be marketable with that.

http://www.oracle.com/education/lang/no/certification/index.html

He has the Intro to SQL cert exam passed.

He was working as temp SQL coder and jr dba type. But down here, they want you to be a jack of all trades, not like austin where you could specialize in one thing. here you have to know UNIX, Linux, Citrix, --whateverelseendsinX, java, asp, etc.. etc... etc....
and he doesnt know all that. That is about 2 years of course work and the broly needs a job within 6 months.

 

[Dial_tone]

Well he'd have to know Unix, Linux and Windows for Cisco too...hence the reason I say it isn't truly entry level.

 

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define knowing *nix? how in-depth does your knowledge have to be?

i ran slackware and debian years ago, and i was semi-competent with it...

windows is cake, though.