I have avoided certifications, but my CompSci degree from a university well known for engineering has helped get jobs.
If you really want certifications, they are available, especially for Red Hat, kind of like a Microsoft MSCE is for Windows. Certifications may help get a job, but keeping it is the hard part. They tend to train for what you needed to do the job yesterday, and you can stay employed for a while. You also need to re-certify (normally at your own expense) every couple of years. So you stay in school whether you learn or not. ... Getting a degree was stressful enough, having to re-take the classes and test basically every 2 years for an entire degree is not my idea of a 'career'. I have known great admins and bad admins both with and without degrees and/or certifications. It really depends on the passions of person. Most of the great are great at anything they put their mind to. Whatever you choose to do, have it be something you can be personally passionate about well beyond the desire for a paycheck or 'security' (whatever that means anymore). The passion ensures you will stay interested and can stay happy with it for a long time. I started out as an application developer, moved into systems administration just as my interests move. But both as a developer and sysadmin in various generations of computers, it is a basic understanding of the engineering process (how to analyse issues, develop theories, prove or disprove the theories, and iterate) with tenacity to stay with a problem till it is resolved helped the most. Those concepts and methods can be used in just about any technical field. Even after 35 years in industry, computers are still my passion. Everything from how the electronics and logic gates are combined, hardware, software, and how user use them. Taking more than 35years to really start feeling burned out makes for a great career, at least from my perspective. ... I with you as good a life. Now basically retired, but still intersted, and just my 2 centavos worth. ... Jack -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
