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I'm about to give up a 50k/yr job to go back to school to try to get into IT!
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adorai posted:Or you could skip school and just start working in IT. Yeah, but I already have some community college credits and I can take cheaper certs there while working on pretty good lab set ups. I should be able to get an AS in network admin along with a handful of certs in less than a year with very little debt, I'm not cutting huge checks to ITT tech or anything.
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Jun 17, 2016 05:30
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:If you had a junior sysadmin job on the side, you would probably learn a lot more. Sure, that would be great, but every single job posting I've seen and applied to requires either school and certs or experience. It turns out that nobody is willing to just take my word that I'm good with computers and a fast learner and would totally pick the job up if they just give me a shot. I'm scheduled to take A+, Net+, and Linux+ before the end of the summer though, so that should help.
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Sepist posted:Don't do that. I've always liked my coworkers and some of them including my old boss are coming to my wedding but I still gave the normal 2 weeks after I already have a signed offer at a new place. I'm about half way through working out the 2 months notice I gave at my current position. It was a terrible loving mistake. I'll never give more than 2 weeks again and I would say I generally have(had) an extremely good relationship with the owners of the small business before I gave my notice. They're not even really trying to screw me (although I wasn't thrilled with the 35% pay cut - but at least I hardly have any responsibility besides knowledge transfer) but they've hosed up the hand over so badly that I have to spend all day in a toxic environment where half the hourly staff is threatening to quit because they aren't happy with the way ownership is handling the transition from me to another manager. E: V-- https://www.yoogle.com 
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Jul 23, 2016 01:10
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Tab8715 posted:Has anyone ever heard the phrase "NIC Card"? My networking teacher has never said it any other way. It drives me bonkers.
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Jul 27, 2016 02:41
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pixaal posted:A general degree (non IT) will get you into a good number of places. But HR can demand you have a degree in "Computer Science / Network engineer" even with 10 years in field because they don't know what is going on. It might not even be the hiring managers fault, HR sometimes just shoves that on there and auto dumps anyone without it. I'm in the midst of attempting a career change into IT and am currently taking classes at my local community college, which has (as far as I can tell) pretty good labs although I'm still pretty early on in the program. I'm taking the second part of my A+ next week and trying to decide on what cert to go after next. I seem to be pretty good at linux and enjoy it, is linux+ worthwhile? Or would it be better to try to go right to RHCSA? I'm mostly interested in working in some sort of cloud/aws/gce/docker type role. fake edit: I guess this would be better in the certs thread, but the topic came up here.
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Jul 29, 2016 01:29
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jaegerx posted:I think it's probably harder to find for home grown mc* than Linux now but then I don't work for tiny msp companies. mc*? like MCSE, etc? Sheep posted:Skip Linux+ and go straight to RH*. Docjowles posted:Seconded, skip Linux+ unless you're getting it for free as part of your program. RHCSA/RHCE are the better industry certs. Thanks for the input. Being well paid would certainly be nice, but I'm mostly just excited to do something more interesting than what I'm doing now.
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Jul 29, 2016 06:36
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psydude posted:It varies from state to state in the US, but I know in MD that an employer can only confirm that you worked for them during a certain time period. Job titles, duties, and salaries are off limits. That is not actually true. http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-rights-book/chapter9-6.html
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Aug 4, 2016 13:34
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ratbert90 posted:Which roll is the best roll for my role as a roll baker? This is a stupid joke but I'm just going to role with it.
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Walked posted:VPN or unblock us. MLB.tv is the poo poo but their blackout rules are frustrating Do you know if that's true even if you use unblock-us dns at the router? That's how do it and mlb on Roku works fine. I'd be disappointed if that stopped working. Is there a particular mlb Kodi plugin you prefer? It looks like there are a couple. E: sorry, didn't see the post above, I'd be happy to take it to PMs.
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Sep 15, 2016 18:16
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Well that must have been a letdown
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Nov 1, 2016 06:06
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Some real  kicking in this TAMU game.E: this isn't the college football thread. I'll do the needful and revert to the proper subforum.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I do that at work anyways I assume you mean you leave the stall door open and prop the bathroom door open for maximum effect. I hope you bring a laptop in there too, preferably not yours but someone's that you're supposed to be upgrading.
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Nov 18, 2016 18:39
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Be prepared to fix up Linkedin accounts.
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Dec 1, 2016 05:13
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Do you have a second phone number you can give them with a phony name/position then tell them to gently caress off when they call?
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Dec 6, 2016 21:26
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I believe somebody posted the solution to persistent sales calls a few weeks ago.
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Dec 9, 2016 04:53
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I remember earlier in this thread some of you had some great suggestions for questions to ask during interviews but I can't seem to find it among the nearly 700 pages here (or maybe it was even in the ticket thread  )Anybody have some good questions they like to ask, or be asked, in interviews? I have an interview for my first IT job in a few hours and feel like it may be a little beyond my skill range right now but they asked one of my teachers to recommend a student so they know I'm still learning. I know that saying you'd Google an answer, or ask IRC/Stackexchange/SHSC, is better than flatly saying you don't know - any other tips on how to handle technical questions you don't know the answer to?
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https://redmondmag.com/articles/2010/09/01/beware-the-bsa.aspx
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I just got my first offer for a real IT job. Part time so I can finish school but a good first step to hopefully let me move into something I'm really interested in after I graduate.
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Internet Explorer posted:Congrats man! My first IT job had such a huge impact on my life. Get in there, be motivated, curious, and helpful and take all you can from that experience. Thanks! Yeah it's looking like the career change was a good idea - now I'll just have to see if I can keep up with a 20 credit quarter now that one of the classes will have to be independent study. At least the class I'll no longer be able to attend in person is Cisco and I'll be working in a Cisco environment so hopefully I'll actually get some exposure to it. My manager seemed eager to get me involved in as many things as possible which is really nice.
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Yeah, I just got my first real IT job with an A+ and an N+ - I'm also in a program that will lead to a CCNA. It doesn't hurt to have a solid linkedin profile - with picture. I actually got my job through networking at an open source conference held at my school. Go to networking meetups or try to find free regional conferences in your area if you can, people enjoy talking to enthusiastic students and those connections can be really valuable.
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Feb 2, 2017 22:12
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LochNessMonster posted:Lmbo, you'd almost feel sorry for that guy. poo poo pay, but if he has to ask Reddit he probably doesn't have a ton of experience. If he can scrape by for 12-18 months getting good hands-on experience with all that he can probably make a pretty good leap in position at his next place. It's probably more worthwhile in the long run than doing T1 helpdesk for 20/hr. I need to start learning Ansible or Chef or something.
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The Fool posted:Snipe-IT is on my short list, so is AssetCloud https://products.office.com/en-us/excel
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Sickening posted:Eh, the desktop folks at my company have a pretty cushy gig for it being entry level compared to pretty much ever company I heard of. Most of the people we have had got to skip the call centers, the contract work, the punch clocks, and all the other bullshit you see with entry level IT stuff. So far so few have recognized how poo poo other companies can be. I just wish I could offer them a better growth plan in our company. Mind me asking what part of the world you're in?
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Mar 9, 2017 23:37
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BaseballPCHiker posted:If only I could get it to play nicely with Drive and not try to shove OneDrive down my rear end all the time. Ha, try migrating from pc to mac. There is no option to move notebooks, no export/import. It's either in the butt or nothing. loving maddening.
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Also aren't there 100% online mortgage companies? Has anyone ever used one? I'm sure they don't make you fax but I wonder if you can get away with only a digital signature. I know I got a $30k loan by doing nothing more than typing my full name and checking a box and hitting submit. I think the fax requirements are something lovely lawyers just assume without digging too deeply. I like the idea of stuxnet for fax machines.
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Apr 1, 2017 15:35
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Thanks Ants posted:Isn't the legal stuff to do with if a fax is timestamped at a certain time, and call records from the relevant parties show that a call was made at this time then it can be proven in a way that emails can't? Also, according to that PCWorld article linked above Someone confused about email posted:Your computer doesn’t have to be on to send or receive a fax; faxes can arrive at 3 A.M. (and frequently do) and you’ll have them in the morning.
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Apr 1, 2017 18:19
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xsf421 posted:I work for a giant online-only mortgage company, we get people faxing us stuff constantly. We just have an app set up to turn them to pdf and email to the recipient, because who the hell wants paper. Do you accept e-signatures?
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Apr 1, 2017 18:49
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I tried to fix that for a user recently. I ended up having to fully delete her outlook profile and reload it.
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Apr 26, 2017 17:36
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've got to learn confluence. Anyone have tips on how to not gently caress up really bad? I'm coming from SharePoint, where people have hosed it up bad. Painstakingly add every SA smiley to HipChat, set up the confluence integration. Do all your documentation in smiley/meme heavy conversations with team members and save the chat logs to confluence. (Note that after a week or two you may have to have your documentation chats with yourself, once everyone else refuses to talk to you on HipChat)
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May 24, 2017 15:08
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Tab8715 posted:Why do people still use Internet Explorer? It's the only thing that works with our lovely voip configuration web portal. It's the only thing that works with our lovely wifi controller configuration web portal.
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jaegerx posted:Slack is free up to an amount An internal irc server is free. 
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Jun 3, 2017 03:03
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At my place remote or wfh people have the option of video or audio for the daily standup. Almost everyone chooses video and we usually end up spending about 5 minutes out of the 15 laughing at somebody's cat.
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Agrikk posted:
It's the only thing I dislike about my new XPS13.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:There anything better for finding files than regular windows search? That can search over network shares, not just locally? WSL! find / -name 'dickbutt.pdf' 2> /dev/null E: Get-ChildItem C:\ | Where-Object {$_.Name -match "(^dick|butt.jpg$)"} I think, I suck at PowerShell and regex. 
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HatfulOfHollow posted:If you need snowmobile you should just build your own cloud. I'm struggling to find guidelines on the snowmobile free tier, anyone have a link?
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MC Fruit Stripe posted:Sounds like someone lives in
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Sepist posted:He used to be a cop too among other things, his story was very interesting. Best advice he ever gave me was about a taser I was accidentally gifted at a sponsored golf outing. They're illegal here so I said "should I turn this in to the cops" and he said "Nah, I've got crossbows it's all good. Just keep it in the house for self-defense" You're a fool if you bring a taser to a crossbow fight.
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