By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.
By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.
A foot-in-the-door job is colo datacenter tech. I know a major national company that pays about $20/hr and will take what they can get at that price point. Not interesting, not promote-able, bad schedules. But a resume item. Exposure to enterprise-grade equipment. While there, get the advanced certs you realy want and work on networking with the customers and vendors.
Definitely, working at a datacenter that had managed and colo services helped me bridge the gap between helpdesk and sysadmin. I got to see different enterprise systems that some companies may not ever have - VMware, backup suites, server hardware, NAS hardware, server management systems, Cisco equipment, the list goes on. That combined with a community college course I took that was for the CCNA security exam helped me ace my sysadmin job interview. I still learned a ton once I got that position, but I knew the basics and that was good enough for them.