This is just my experience, yours may differ in mileage.
I was home schooled and very badly home schooled at that, so f**k off grammar/spelling Nazi. I fallowed this up with a GED and I have interviewed for many sysadmin jobs and I have held 3 sysadmin jobs. Being I don't have a (professional) look, I tend not to get the good jobs. Right now I am very happy as a Datacetner Operations Tech (mmm server monkey) however, I have been a sysadmin and even run my own small hosting company (very small these days). In the first job, I had to work UP to the Systems Admin position in the company, this took me nearly 8 months to just prove my worth(mm night shift) and 2 more months to start moving up the food chain. After you get that first 1yr+ of "Systems Administrator" down, you can then start putting your resume out their and move into a better paying more official sysadmin job. in my case I hunted down a small Hosting provider where I would get crappy pay but be able to move up by proving my self.
Find Your Path, Make Your Self Pretty (Professional) and Attack. Mid Range Systems Admin Jobs are 3 Percent Skill, 95 Percent Self Sales and 2 Percent Ass Kissing.
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This is just my experience, yours may differ in mileage. I was home schooled and very badly home schooled at that, so f**k off grammar/spelling Nazi. I fallowed this up with a GED and I have interviewed for many sysadmin jobs and I have held 3 sysadmin jobs. Being I don't have a (professional) look, I tend not to get the good jobs. Right now I am very happy as a Datacetner Operations Tech (mmm server monkey) however, I have been a sysadmin and even run my own small hosting company (very small these days). In the first job, I had to work UP to the Systems Admin position in the company, this took me nearly 8 months to just prove my worth(mm night shift) and 2 more months to start moving up the food chain. After you get that first 1yr+ of "Systems Administrator" down, you can then start putting your resume out their and move into a better paying more official sysadmin job. in my case I hunted down a small Hosting provider where I would get crappy pay but be able to move up by proving my self. Find Your Path, Make Your Self Pretty (Professional) and Attack. Mid Range Systems Admin Jobs are 3 Percent Skill, 95 Percent Self Sales and 2 Percent Ass Kissing.