I fell into System administration through my job with the Defense department. It was like "Tag you do this." And the learning process started. I initially only had two Computer Science courses for my Engineering degree. After that it was a course here, there and a lot of burning the midnight oil. 95% of it was learning on the job. I go along with Tom where it is much easier today to build your own sandbox and learn by screwing up. For a very small investment you can build your own playground to learn almost anything.
I do think this profession takes a person who has a strong base in logic. If not you will spend a lot of time going down bind alleys (or as some call it rabbit holes). That may be good at first to learn what not to do but as you progress you need to rely on logic a lot more as time becomes a premium. I don't think there are any General Certs as most of these Cert programs are OS Specific (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco etc). but one should be able to adapt after going through one of them. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Bill Bogstad <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Brandon Allbery <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > (hi nonny!) > > > > There is still not a lot in a college curriculum that is directly > related to > > system administration, although access to resources may matter (or may > not) > > and a lot of the stuff you get from a college education is generally > > applicable. That said, between the wide range of what's covered by system > > administration and the general lack of college-level education in the > area, > > most of your educational options aren't college related at all and > there's > > quite a lot of room to start from a personal Linux installation and work > > upward from there through entry level jobs that will get you mentoring to > > move on to higher levels. Sadly, Active Directory license costs rather > limit > > the same path for Windows admin; on the other hand, introductory courses > for > > Windows admin --- not always so identified --- can sometimes be found > even > > at the vocational college level, providing both lower cost and often more > > flexible times. Other resources tend to be expensive and targeting > > companies. > > I haven't tried it myself, but I wonder what software/licenses are > available via an MSDN membership/ While an MSDN OS membership is a > bit expensive ($699?), it would still probably be cheaper than even a > single class at a community college. > > Bill Bogstad > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > -- John J. Boris, Sr. Online Services www.onlinesvc.com
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