Who has salary transparency in their state? I'm in Pa and it's still being debated.

I get my coworkers to coff up their salary numbers to me and put that in the back of my mind to negotiate later. These companies would pay us in Pizza parties if they could.

Study 24/7, network in spare time, projects, use up tuition reimbursement to pay for certs, then routed

IaC tho

Been hearing Net engineering is becoming obsolete because of the Cloud .
Probably overstated but curious what you been noticing in the field.

HUH?!
Where they doing this at? Lol

I work on the ISP side of things, not so much business side. So I think my perspective is going to be a lot different than most. Most of the cloud tools I’ve seen are only good for like a tier one perspective. A lot of my work is still just the initial config through CLI and then it’s set it and forget it until some business needs a circuit built out. Most of the upkeep work is just monitoring, planning, and escalation tickets. There’s a lot of work out there though because of all the government funding being thrown around through RDOF, BEAD, and State. We’ve went from 0 to 7000 customers in 3 1/2 years. It is extremely hard to find qualified folks in rural America though, even if you pay well.

DoD overseas

That's great to hear. I'm glad other people try to bring up salary transparency

Humble Bundle on Python (15 DAYS left from today):

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Got a final (?) interview for a security engineer position this week. Genuinely surprised I got a call back because my scripting knowledge is basically non-existent

Need this s*** to be over though. I hate doing interview prep and already feel like I'm screwed

Graduated last year with a bs in IT and no luck on any entry jobs, what do I need to do ? Should I just be getting certifications at this point ? Only relevant job experience to entry level it jobs is this short position I did at my schools help desk for a class.

Get them certs before you end up teaching IT tbh

taking the long road reading this ccna textbook before watching any vids bc i just love reading and absorbing all the info i possibly can thru notes lol….hope i stay consistent and take the exam in the summer

Interview actually went well enough, but tell me how they call me back despite telling the hiring manager in the first interview I know like nothing of the languages they want. They then proceed to tell me that they need a really technical applicant. Really just seemed like a waste of time for everyone involved

Anyone into tech sales or AI skill building here?

i gotta go get the rhcsa and rhce, i'm missing out on easy money.

ai

Damn,
hate it had to be you.

These companies play too much. Anything else lined up?

How we feeling about this recession, folks?

The hiring manager actually responded to my follow up email and said they were working on something internal and would let me know. Technically still in the running for it, but not expecting much since it's been almost 3 weeks

I do have a couple contracting roles I could get pretty much immediately, but one would require me to move to Atlanta once they hire me full time in like a year. Prob just gonna wait until I get another fully remote position, but this market is not the best

Sounds shady tbh.
3 weeks without a response is crazy,
time is money.

How are you coming across most of your opportunities?
Job boards?
Referrals?
Networking events?

Reading up on Gen AI and prompt engineering now.

May be beneficial to get a few certs and build out a project involving what you learned.
Would make no sense to have an BSIT and go for A+,
imo.
Any experience with Active Directory or Cloud?

Check this website out if you haven't already: notes.networklessons.com

Dude basically wrote a Rosetta Stone on the CCNA and Cisco Certs,
a lot of it for free too

Agreed. Funny enough, it's with a very well known university with a great reputation, so I'm a bit surprised it's going as it is.

I've mainly just been applying, though the one contractor role I could get right now is from networking. Applying is such a pain