Shippou-Sensei
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i'm considering doing support but A.) i think it miht cause me to slit my wrists B.) it's suprisinly hard to break into
Getting into IT support/sysadmin
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The Groke
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Yeah - I kinda fell into IT by small degrees and mostly by accident from an accounts Monkey job.
7 years down the line I am now about to jet off to Dubai to become a "Regional IT Manager" so it does pay off......eventually!
As for qualifications.....hmm - unless you know nothing at all about computers, I perhaps wouldn't bother with MCSE's - they are ten-a-penny and IMHO pretty worthless. People fresh from school or college that I have interviewed who have had MCSE's up to the eyeballs had no fucking clue when it came to "real life" application of IT.
You will gain most of your skills and knowledge from experience and from being on "the shop floor". I have no formal training in IT and no better schooling than GCSE level - it is my 7 years experience in the industry that (finally!) gets me places.
Now - should you want to get really technical later on, then there are more specialised qualifications that will earn you big bucks - CISCO stuff springs to mind, as well as specialisation/training in specific software like SQL or Citrix etc.......these would be worth considering once you have got a year or twos experience and found your "niche"
7 years down the line I am now about to jet off to Dubai to become a "Regional IT Manager" so it does pay off......eventually!
As for qualifications.....hmm - unless you know nothing at all about computers, I perhaps wouldn't bother with MCSE's - they are ten-a-penny and IMHO pretty worthless. People fresh from school or college that I have interviewed who have had MCSE's up to the eyeballs had no fucking clue when it came to "real life" application of IT.
You will gain most of your skills and knowledge from experience and from being on "the shop floor". I have no formal training in IT and no better schooling than GCSE level - it is my 7 years experience in the industry that (finally!) gets me places.
Now - should you want to get really technical later on, then there are more specialised qualifications that will earn you big bucks - CISCO stuff springs to mind, as well as specialisation/training in specific software like SQL or Citrix etc.......these would be worth considering once you have got a year or twos experience and found your "niche"
Know everyone always seems to say on these threads dont bother with MCSE etc cos everyone has one out of college etc, doesn't that then put you at a huge disadvantage when you are without one or the experience tho lol.
Looking around for near enough anything at the moment, was at council for 3 months in comms dept but despite what they said 90% of the work was with the phone system which I could care less about. Was also told it was on jobline til I got there, not £15 on top of benefits for 37 hours a week
Having been in that kind of crappy tiered environment where you get to do precisely fuck all even remotely interesting for several years Ill be looking at smaller companies/schools. Tend to get a more rounded experience from what Ive gathered. Seemed to be people in the department at the council who had been there years and gone so specialised their general computer knowledge was all but non-existant and everything seemed to require roping in someone else if it was out of the ordinary in anyway cos they didnt know what they were doing.
Looking around for near enough anything at the moment, was at council for 3 months in comms dept but despite what they said 90% of the work was with the phone system which I could care less about. Was also told it was on jobline til I got there, not £15 on top of benefits for 37 hours a week
Having been in that kind of crappy tiered environment where you get to do precisely fuck all even remotely interesting for several years Ill be looking at smaller companies/schools. Tend to get a more rounded experience from what Ive gathered. Seemed to be people in the department at the council who had been there years and gone so specialised their general computer knowledge was all but non-existant and everything seemed to require roping in someone else if it was out of the ordinary in anyway cos they didnt know what they were doing.
The Groke said:
Ah yes thats all well and good when you have the experience, problem is getting anything in the first place that'll let you gain it. Past two months of searching in Cornwall reveals everyone wanting 3 years of experience and no one being interested in training.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
simular in london the genrally expect a year of experiance minimum ... at least thats what they put down on the specifacations
The Groke
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tw1ggy5 said:
its a bugger isn't it....
Like I said, I drifted sideways from accounts to IT over a period of time and got lucky basically.
If you can get the money together, your best bet might be to do a course in something specific as mentioned above (Cisco, Citrix, SQL, Oracle etc) to stand out from the herds of other MCSE'd people looking for IT jobs.
DO you have any friends or relatives that could offer you some work-experience placements just to get some front-line experience under your belt?
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