On Sept 1st I finished my B.S. IT: Security at WGU. After 2 1/2 years since starting. I only transferred in 8 CU's from my A+ certificate, so I had to do all the Gen Ed classes. Very proud of myself!
For more background check out this thread I started a few months back:
http://www.techexams.net/forums/jobs-degrees/126854-manager-leaving-possible-promotion-raise.html
Post #1 and #8 are probably the most relevant.
I am still at the same company that is outlined in the post I linked to above.
My current job is:
Position: Systems Administrator
Company Size: ~100 end users
Server Environment: Windows
Virtualization: Vsphere 6.5
Network Equipment:
Backbone: Brocade
Distribution: HP
Router: Cisco
Firewall: Checkpoint
Backup: Veeam
Pay: $47000 + bonus up to 10%
Did I mention I am the only IT guy at my company? On top of all my Systems Admin duties, I have to do break/fix tickets. Oh, how I hate break/fix.
You may ask what is the point of all of this? Good Question!
My current position has more downtime than any other place I have worked and is therefore very boring. I have only stayed here because I was able to study college classes throughout the day. This allowed me to really knock out the last 10 classes at WGU.
Now that I am done with school I am bored out of my mind at work, and the work I do have to do is stupid break/fix tickets. I am sick of being a one man show here, and I am starting to work on AWS certs through Linux Academy. I plan on work on the AWS certs non-stop until I have all eight of them. I also plan on learning Ruby, Chef, Puppter, Docker, and Kubernetes.
This is all a lot of learning to do, but I am tired of being the lone ranger at work and I want to move to a new role. Does anyone have any input or suggestions?
