Winter 2014 - January to April 2014 - Updated 2017-09-05 02:38 EDT
http://blog.cbtnuggets.com/2017/01/decoding-your-it-sysadmin-career-pathway/
We talked with some of our expert trainers and they weighed in on what certifications and training would set you up for a successful SysAdmin career. […] Trainer Shawn Powers makes a strong argument to include Linux, particularly the LPIC-1, early in your SysAdmin career. If you get stuck or struggle with LPIC-1, consider backtracking to Linux Essentials to fill in the gaps.
“Linux continues to dominate in the data center, so having advanced knowledge and problem-solving skills makes for better technology decisions.” With Linux so prevalent in the lives of SysAdmins, there are lots of reasons to go open source.
“Being a system administrator is more than knowing the tools and systems,” Shawn continued. “It really requires the ability to think outside the box. Learning [Linux] ultimately prepares you to be a system administrator, which makes you far more valuable as an employee (or potential employee).”
Is Computer Systems Technician the career path for you? Do you really want to do sysadmin work?
I still maintain that if the tech has no independent interest in technology and just regards it as a job, it will be an ongoing battle to keep the tech up to date with the latest developments or to elicit any form of enthusiasm or excitement for the work. Having a tech who is engaged and excited about new technology becomes particularly important during a rollout, where the tech is uniquely positioned to influence users’ attitudes toward the changes in their environment. Rollouts can cause considerable stress to users who are now required to learn a new product to perform their job function. Having a tech who is excited and engaged with the new product will encourage and reassure the users. – Traits of a top-notch support technician
Traits of a top-notch support technician
10 signs that you aren’t cut out for IT.
10 signs that you aren’t cut out to be a support tech
The Computer Systems Technician program is well-suited for students who:
To keep your job in IT, you need to know your stuff and add value that can’t be purchased for $5/hour overseas.
A College education may be an advantage. Students know that a university education today is no guarantee of a good job and only offers a leg up in a brutally competitive job market. That is why many now combine a degree with a vocational qualification from a college […]
The steps up to graduation may be small compared with the step after
What are you doing with your spare time? Playing with computer science or playing card and video games? Which will give you better answers at your next job interview?
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from what you eat to what you do with your time tonight, turns you into who you are tomorrow, and the day after that. Look at who you want to be, and start sculpting yourself into that person. You may not get exactly where you thought you’d be, but you will be doing things that suit you in a profession you believe in. Don’t let life randomly kick you into the adult you don’t want to become. Hadfield’s reddit chat, quoted on forbes.com
Philosopher Alan Watts on doing what you desire (many versions):
Everything starts with an idea. This is the first of the four jobs – the Thinkers. Builders convert these ideas into reality. This the second job. Improvers make this reality better. This is the third job. Producers do the work over and over again, delivering quality goods and services to the company’s customers in a repeatable manner. This is the fourth job. And then the process begins again with new ideas and new ways of doing business being developed as the old ones become stale.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet, on work:
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man’s hunger. And if you grudge the crushing of the grapes, your grudge distils a poison in the wine. And if you sing though as angels, and love not the singing, you muffle man’s ears to the voices of the day and the voices of the night.