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.
