CCNA
RHCSA
Sec+
Az-104

anyone work at an IT shop or MSP?

I hate sys admins! gatekeepers they are!

Shut your mouth and go change Janice’s keyboard

my a+ long expired and work telling me to get it again smh they paying for it but i hate taking tests and s***. Passing core 1 should be a breeze just gotta study for a month or two core 2. Hopefully get it again by end of year

just lemme come in with a co-managed approach

How about you go manage the printers in billing.

🤣

no more reactive s*** man! call ya print vendor! well triage it!

You don’t deal with the vendors Help Desk. Now excuse me while the vendors take me out to lunch.

Ask my anything I was a SysAdmin

SysAdmin at an MSP is hell

Worst CompTIA cert

s***s easy but they word the questions horribly on purpose to make you feel dumb

Having a horrible saturday at work. Many systems down, many T&M's have to do, one system constantly giving out failures and is bleeding us dry

Gonna KMS!

Exaclty I wanted to get it in 2017 but after few days started hating it and went straght to CCNA

Software developers make more

what did you end up switching to and why? leaning towards a focus on networking but sys admin may be less stress / on call

Separating from the military without a job. We so up

DevOps & Security Engineer

Outgrew the SysAdmin role and they couldn't give me more pay from that and neither make me IT Manager cus my manager a cool ass dude been working for the company for 22 years and wants to retire into that so they created this 'new' pos so they can bump my pay.

I do alot of Infra as Code now and Network Hardening.

Also Red Team drills accros 40 sites over the country.

One time I disguised myself as an L1 support member from the outsourced company to enter a location and hack into the server s*** was fun af

You do require networking as a sysadmin

Is Linux not a prereq for all security s***?

Linux is a must have from my pov in security

Pax8 💖

honestly, avoid MSPS if you can