Need career advise for networking jobs !!!!!!!

pr0digy09

hi guys,

All the jobs i had so far was as a software developer (mostly programming in Java, and some web development stuff), but i'm now interested in networking more than anything and looking a career path that can help me get at least 100k+ (USD) .Currently I'm working as a ColdFusion developer and would love to change my career into networking related job ASAP! ,I'm also open to do any certification that i must to achieve this...
i'm 27 years old and my progress so-far is as follows:

1)Bachelor's in computer science
2)Comptia certified A+ IT technician
3)Comptia certified Network+
4)Comptia certified Security+
5)Cisco Certified Network Associate

please recommend me a career path or any other certification that can help me progress in the right direction or a job/position that i should look for.
THANKS

cms819

CCNP, and CNNA security would be useful certs in the networking field.

kurosaki00

Knowing Java will definitely help. You can do some nice scripts on it.
I would say go for CCNA and then maybe a Linux certification. It would complement your network + developing skills a lot.
And fish for jobs, try low admin level jobs or NOC jobs. Get experience, study, work hard, move up.

pr0digy09

Already got CCNA, I'm a little confused about going towards CCNP or towards virtualization (VMWare related certs), which one do you think would be more profitable?

kohr-ah

If you want to learn VMWare start to branch towards the CCNA Data Center.

Get a job in a DC or NOC and get some network experience and then look into VMWare courses. Automation will help greatly there (Not saying it wont in R&S environments as it does there also).

Step 1 - Get a network job since you have your CCNA (NOC, Jr Net Engineer, Etc).
Step 2 - Get some experience and build your skills.
Step 3 - Work on higher end certs while doing steps 1 and 2.
Step 4 - Build towards that six figure goal

pr0digy09

thanks kohr-ah , I'll do exactly that