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  • actually work in the IT realm.

    13 36.11%
  • swear the only two things I know are jack and shit when it comes to IT.

    3 8.33%
  • am studying to be an IT professional of some kind.

    8 22.22%
  • pretend I know what I'm talking about, but I really am too lazy and/or have no idea.

    2 5.56%
  • picked the comedy option.

    10 27.78%
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    All good information. I figured experience would be a greater asset than any certification or degree. I have a teacher now with 20 some years of experience when he graduated college with a degree in accounting. Despite not having a degree in IT he has head hunters offering him jobs any time he asks. His long list of employers and experience is rather impressive. Something no person would have right out of school. I just hoped that times didnt really change to where it was almost a necessity to get a real job in IT.

    I have far from enough experience. I suppose I gotta start thinking more about getting the hell out of retail than what I'll do when I graduate. I do need to get my foot in the door. I may work on my Microsoft certification and look into getting a job a small local home service computer shop. Maybe I'll look in

    The issue I see is I may eventually like to be a high school technology teacher and give kids a step in the right direction with proper knowledge unlike I had. To do this I'll need at least a bachelors.
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    Thing you gotta realize too, experience is nice but the right kind of experience can boost your salary by a lot.

    For example if you're a network admin, and you have a lot of experience with switches and routers and vlans etc that's great. But then, you also have experience in lets say ServerIron - I bet your salary goes up at least 5k to 10k.

    Same thing with Linux. Yeah being a Red Hat admin for 10 years is great, but when you get into virtualization (and I don't mean using VMWare), and doing high-availability clustering and using Virtual I/O servers for everything is where the money is at.

    All I'm saying is there are different kinds of experience, which relate to different kinds of pay.

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