Network Administrator to Cisco ? Instead of nightly NOC

Hi All,

I was thinking would it be wiser to go for a network admin job then switch to Cisco/CCNA rather than switching gears from net admin as I'm almost there going to a nightly NOC at a lower pay rate?

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ande0255

..... Yes.

DoubleNNs

It's kind of hard to understand your question.

Master Of Puppets

I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to ask.

Fidelity

Yeah. All 4 of them.

P.S. How much have you been drinking?

kohr-ah

I kind of get what you are asking but what you are asking we need more information about.

Do you enjoy being a network administrator or would you prefer being a network engineer? Would you enjoy a hybrid role as a lot of those are out there.

The other thing is we don't know what you make now and what your current job duties are. Answer those and you can get a better answer. No, you don't have to completely drop what you are doing and go NOC from an administrator role. I would get my CCNA and slowly transition over to networking or do a hybrid role if you enjoy that.

Socom

kohr-ah wrote: »

I kind of get what you are asking but what you are asking we need more information about.

Do you enjoy being a network administrator or would you prefer being a network engineer? Would you enjoy a hybrid role as a lot of those are out there.

The other thing is we don't know what you make now and what your current job duties are. Answer those and you can get a better answer. No, you don't have to completely drop what you are doing and go NOC from an administrator role. I would get my CCNA and slowly transition over to networking or do a hybrid role if you enjoy that.

This is more or less what I was talking about, should've been cleared. It was kind of funny actually. So I'm fairly close to becoming a net admin (exchange, vmware, server 200

. My question was should I continue doing that ? Or should I drop it and get my net+, become a noc and work on cisco. Or become a net admin which will be quicker and easier for me, and then go towards ccna ccent etc. Currently working at a service desk and refusing to do password resets and software installs lol.

kohr-ah

Socom wrote: »

This is more or less what I was talking about, should've been cleared. It was kind of funny actually. So I'm fairly close to becoming a net admin (exchange, vmware, server 200. My question was should I continue doing that ? Or should I drop it and get my net+, become a noc and work on cisco. Or become a net admin which will be quicker and easier for me, and then go towards ccna ccent etc. Currently working at a service desk and refusing to do password resets and software installs lol.

Well no one can really tell you what to do for a living. Is that what you want to do or do you want to be. If you are doing service desk now I can't imagine NOC or a jr network admin would be a pay difference for you.

But I always tell myself what do I want to do until I retire or a form of it. Networking won for me but that is me.