it's less knowing how to operate cisco devices and more knowing about the osi layers and how data flows from one device to another over a network. also you should become knowledgeable on linux because it is important that you know how to maneuver the command line.

Its only.now.i feel like i found myself.myself
And that i can self.confirm.i was goin the good road

Everyone projectin and shamin
Everyone got they route

Everyone is gone now too, so no more bad advice

Doin what i love and.being appreciayted for it

Had and have to.fight
But i did it, on my own

And thats more than what anyone around could do, cause tjeh was scared and.laughing and now they cant look in ma.eyes

Most of my ideas from back then have all.come to.life
So that brings auto respect too

People.finally seeing and feelin my vision

Meanwhile i thank ma gifted genes and dissabilties

Niggas said niggas cant write
Boi been.hyperlexic, even my granddad app wrote and speeched for.the Ghanian king

When its written
Its written
F***.all.those who say diff fam

At the end, its gonna be u
And.nothin will be more satifying

Just make sure the toxic.ppl dont reach u

Dont listen unles they were u want to.be

Alot of envy
For stupid stuff fr
Watch out

Well, 26 is still really young from career standpoint. The most succesfull people i know were working s***ty 9-5 jobs in their 20's and even in the beginning of their 30's. I started to learn to code recently because i got an online store and i'm intrested in this stuff, and want to elevate myself to the next level. Sometimes i still feel like im heading to nowhere tho, but i think that's how 80% of people feels. Life is complicated but never give up.

dont treat the time closing in to 30 like a ticking time bomb as if you've only got a couple years left to enjoy yourself. play your own game

fr tho, as i wrote in the previous post most succesfull people i know started to ball out in their mid 30's.

Yea you need networking knowledge in cybersec

The goat hustle man. Started a new contract yesterday

This might the last year of making 6k a week unfortunately

Yea,that’s really been a booming industry as of late. Heard of people making great cash every week.

Yes i at least pat myself on the back for wanting more. I know it’s never too late but im not jk Rowling lmao so I really can’t wait like that. i know I’ll be fine tho, this thread has had some useful things to consider

6 k weekly??? hold on lol. You did the 2 years of schooling tho how bad was it

Ik, im asking if cisco devices are that widely used because I heard they arent

if youre interested in entering the tech space, there is a growing need for people who actually understand hardware.

I like the hardware side but how far can one go? Are there other certs I can go for hardware wise?

Oh nah I got my bachelors in nursing after HS

I know a lot of people are doing two year BSN’s as second degrees now but you need to have your prerequisites in line too. So maybe it’ll be like 3 years everything considered

But yea travel contracts been crazy since Covid. Before that you could get like 3-4k a week at most but now everything is 5-7k a week. You sign a contract for 12-15 weeks and work a few months at a time and get tax free housing stipends as part of your pay.

My current contract is 6k a week and I get 2300 of that tax free. Just make crazy money and can take several months off every year

Just keep in mind if you did do 2 years the travel scene is gonna look different when you finish. Probably back to 3-4k a week

Well what do you do rn

when you get a new phone and get insurance on it, im the guy that fixes it when you file a claim

even with the drop that’s not bad money.

My dad was on top of his s*** when he was my age

i work 6 days a week gangy. posted from work lol.life thread did bear fruit tho, take a look at some of the advice ppl of any age can take from this thread. surface level comments like that don’t do much for anyone. sending love regardless we’ll all make it

CCNA/Cisco stuff is more vendor specific, as you might imagine, so it's gonna be used less. However, something like Network+ is vendor neutral, but CCNA is more in depth than Net+ (more practical stuff, rather than just concepts). I'd just say get N+ & Sec+ if you don't have a pre-existing foundation in networking (get Sec+ regardless if you wanna go into security).

Sec+ really isn't that bad and I'd say you really don't need to have taken A+ & N+ prior, unless you have no IT experience at all.

fwiw, I got my security job with just a Sec+. Saw a lot more responses with that on my resume.

Ask yourself what you don't want to your life.

Cut off this things and you will be on the right path to pursuit your own type of happiness