What would you have done
I know it all varies person to person and what my special interests of where I want my career to go but I want to know what you i.t. guys would have done. This week I got accepted for a cisco engineer job with a cisco reseller building/configuring network racks with cisco routers/switches/voip for testing based on various blueprints along with refurbishing used cisco/juniper equipment such as clearing old configs etc.
Well it so happened last night I got an email for a tech position that i interviewed with a month ago with a consulting company supporting several small to mid size businesses offering me the position. The specifics of this position is entry level I would basically work with the lead tech to travel to client sites andget my hands on AD, exchange, citrix, sonicwall, and some cisco asa. My background is working as a field tech part time doing pc tech along with new deployments. I got my ccna in october and have my own rack of routers n switches that i always practice on.
With my new job I plan on pursing my ccnp then a cisco specialization and hopefully in 2 yrs looking for a junior engineer position. I turned down the tech position but I still wonder if I made a right decision. Ithink if I wouldve went that route I wouldve been well rounded in everything but cisco engineering and i get my mcitp and in 2 yrs i could be making serious money elsewhere.
Well it so happened last night I got an email for a tech position that i interviewed with a month ago with a consulting company supporting several small to mid size businesses offering me the position. The specifics of this position is entry level I would basically work with the lead tech to travel to client sites andget my hands on AD, exchange, citrix, sonicwall, and some cisco asa. My background is working as a field tech part time doing pc tech along with new deployments. I got my ccna in october and have my own rack of routers n switches that i always practice on.
With my new job I plan on pursing my ccnp then a cisco specialization and hopefully in 2 yrs looking for a junior engineer position. I turned down the tech position but I still wonder if I made a right decision. Ithink if I wouldve went that route I wouldve been well rounded in everything but cisco engineering and i get my mcitp and in 2 yrs i could be making serious money elsewhere.
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joehalford01
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It sounds like you would rather be working on networks specifically. Your plan is a good one, stick with it. -
lordy
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I would have done the same thing. It sounds like you have landed a good position that will advance your networking skills. Make the best of it.Working on CCNP: [X] SWITCH --- [ ] ROUTE --- [ ] TSHOOT
Goal for 2014: RHCA
Goal for 2015: CCDP -
Turgon
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I know it all varies person to person and what my special interests of where I want my career to go but I want to know what you i.t. guys would have done. This week I got accepted for a cisco engineer job with a cisco reseller building/configuring network racks with cisco routers/switches/voip for testing based on various blueprints along with refurbishing used cisco/juniper equipment such as clearing old configs etc.
Well it so happened last night I got an email for a tech position that i interviewed with a month ago with a consulting company supporting several small to mid size businesses offering me the position. The specifics of this position is entry level I would basically work with the lead tech to travel to client sites andget my hands on AD, exchange, citrix, sonicwall, and some cisco asa. My background is working as a field tech part time doing pc tech along with new deployments. I got my ccna in october and have my own rack of routers n switches that i always practice on.
With my new job I plan on pursing my ccnp then a cisco specialization and hopefully in 2 yrs looking for a junior engineer position. I turned down the tech position but I still wonder if I made a right decision. Ithink if I wouldve went that route I wouldve been well rounded in everything but cisco engineering and i get my mcitp and in 2 yrs i could be making serious money elsewhere.
Stay where you are for two years. Two years at a reseller is a good deal. You will learn technical and commercial realities which is great experience and good for your career. -
cyberguypr
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I agree with everything posted so far. Your current job sounds like a good opportunity. Doing so many different things on the other job may end up pulling you in a different direction than you really want to go. -
ptilsen
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I've not seen any evidence that systems engineer/generalist line of work really makes any more or less money that the network engineer line of work. Do whichever is more enjoyable to you and never look back.
