I have no college degree, I didnt even finish high school. I was in a school working on getting my A+ Certification, adn then looking at the MCSE Track (I didnt know any better back then, I was looking for work). With my A+ Cert and a friend in the right spot I scored a job doing tech support. We did support for Point to Point, Frame Circuits, and some DSL. The vast majority of our services were Unix (SunOS 4.x) based. After 3 months they decided I would make a good admin, and dragged me over.
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to sit there looking at the cursor and going "What do I do now?".. Anywho, I think the best way to become an admin is to do it. I have found that I have received the best training on the job, with a of customers screaming that the is broken. You either learn how to be a good admin, with solid troubleshooting skills, get fired, or decide you cant deal with it and do something else...
A side benefit of becomming a admin is that it has branched out into scripting/programming which is what I will be doing in a few years. You need to automate this, fix that, tweak this or that. When you look back your like hey I could work with C or Perl or
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I have no college degree, I didnt even finish high school. I was in a school working on getting my A+ Certification, adn then looking at the MCSE Track (I didnt know any better back then, I was looking for work). With my A+ Cert and a friend in the right spot I scored a job doing tech support. We did support for Point to Point, Frame Circuits, and some DSL. The vast majority of our services were Unix (SunOS 4.x) based. After 3 months they decided I would make a good admin, and dragged me over.
Do you have any idea how frustrating it is to sit there looking at the cursor and going "What do I do now?".. Anywho, I think the best way to become an admin is to do it. I have found that I have received the best training on the job, with a of customers screaming that the is broken. You either learn how to be a good admin, with solid troubleshooting skills, get fired, or decide you cant deal with it and do something else...
A side benefit of becomming a admin is that it has branched out into scripting/programming which is what I will be doing in a few years. You need to automate this, fix that, tweak this or that. When you look back your like hey I could work with C or Perl or
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