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BeoTeK said:
Hey, there may be an opening in Cape Town to replace me, if anyone is interested.


@Nimatek - Did you get it?
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@BeoTek - Wyv's collected yesterday, I'm getting it from her tonight :)

Hagan said:
I enjoy what I studied last year: PC Repairing and Maintenance.

Within the firm I am working, IT and Accounting are the 2 field into which one can go. Needless to say, I intend going into IT, soon as the boss sees me fit to do so. Perhaps they'll first have to find another receptionist before I can enter that field. I hope it won't take too long :)

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What position did/do you hold?
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@Hagan - Something to remember that people don't tell you about when studying this : You will be dealing with idiots 24/7, make sure you can cope with that :D

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PsychoFish said:
That is something a lot of people forget. I really enjoy my position as a Senior Infrastructure Architect, but I do miss the more hands on side of things like Engineering or Operational Support. What i enjoy most is playing with the big expensive toys I can get my hands on.
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@ PsychoFish - Cannot agree more, playing with the new toys are so much fun! :D
 
Hagan said:
What are the requirements for such a post?
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You will need to know the workings of our software, which would training.

But best to know about basic shit obviously, how to reinstall windows for example, troubleshoot hardware/software.
On top of that; Domain, active directory, exchange. Understanding ESXi and virtual machines. Cloud environments, load balancing. Firewalls, hardware firewalls. Internet/email/DNS. Routing/Forwarding. PostgreSQL databases and general networking, sharing/security etc.


Think that's most of it.
 
BeoTeK said:
You will need to know the workings of our software, which would training.

But best to know about basic shit obviously, how to reinstall windows for example, troubleshoot hardware/software.
On top of that; Domain, active directory, exchange. Understanding ESXi and virtual machines. Cloud environments, load balancing. Firewalls, hardware firewalls. Internet/email/DNS. Routing/Forwarding. PostgreSQL databases and general networking, sharing/security etc.


Think that's most of it.
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50% mentioned here I do not know of or know what to do.
 
@Hagan, I can give some career advice if you want. I have been in the IT game for over 15 years now and clawed my way up.

Best tip I can give is to do some basics first (A+, N+) and try to find your passion. The major fields in IT are:

- Software development
- Infrastructure (Servers, Storage & Networking)
- Database administration
- Server/Service administration

Software development is very rewarding, but it's hard work and long hours to get going before you start making serious money. The infrastructure market is relatively flooded (especially the Networking market) and the storage market is very expensive to train in. Database administration (and related fields) are nice, but you need to pick a major player (MS SQL or Oracle) to quickly get jobs or train in a more niche technology and build up experience. Server/Service administrators tend to be a dime a dozen and to really shine in that field you need solid qualifications and slowly build up your experience.
 
PsychoFish said:
@Hagan, I can give some career advice if you want. I have been in the IT game for over 15 years now and clawed my way up.

Best tip I can give is to do some basics first (A+, N+) and try to find your passion. The major fields in IT are:

- Software development
- Infrastructure (Servers, Storage & Networking)
- Database administration
- Server/Service administration

Software development is very rewarding, but it's hard work and long hours to get going before you start making serious money. The infrastructure market is relatively flooded (especially the Networking market) and the storage market is very expensive to train in. Database administration (and related fields) are nice, but you need to pick a major player (MS SQL or Oracle) to quickly get jobs or train in a more niche technology and build up experience. Server/Service administrators tend to be a dime a dozen and to really shine in that field you need solid qualifications and slowly build up your experience.
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Agreed. Fortunately I have been fortunate to find companies that don't really require or depend on people with qualifications. I'm of the belief that experience is equally important, and on some cases I would hire experience over qualifications.

I have no qualifications to my name, unfortunately.
 
BeoTeK said:
Agreed. Fortunately I have been fortunate to find companies that don't really require or depend on people with qualifications. I'm of the belief that experience is equally important, and on some cases I would hire experience over qualifications.

I have no qualifications to my name, unfortunately.
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Yip this is true, my brother has no formal qualifications yet he has been head hunted by massive companies for the last 6 years and now enjoys a R1.3m pa salary.
 
Yeah Experience > Qualifications; However you don't always get the right experience without a qualification to get you in the door.
 
The Joker said:
Yip this is true, my brother has no formal qualifications yet he has been head hunted by massive companies for the last 6 years and now enjoys a R1.3m pa salary.
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It's quite scary though, but at the same time quite humbling. I was headhunted into this company (after 4yrs of them hounding me) as with many others here. Of which I don't think many of the employees actually hold certifications/degrees beside maybe the big honchos (i.e directors).

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PsychoFish said:
Yeah Experience > Qualifications; However you don't always get the right experience without a qualification to get you in the door.
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So true...
 
Beo, another way to get free(ish) training and some good exposure is to talk to your vendors about industry events and training credits bundled with product purchases. I know MS gives us a stack of training credits every year because of our enterprise agreement, as does vmWare, Cisco, etc.
 
How hard would it be to learn a language, say Python, by yourself ? just using online courses etc ? Is it possible to be completely self taught ?
 
Crableg said:
How hard would it be to learn a language, say Python, by yourself ? just using online courses etc ? Is it possible to be completely self taught ?
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yes, and it gets easier if you already know another programming language. The first language I learnt was C, followed by C++ as these were part of my degree.

Since then I have taught myself to code using Java, Delphi, C#, VB6, VB .Net and PHP

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And I don't work as a developer/programmer
 
PsychoFish said:
yes, and it gets easier if you already know another programming language. The first language I learnt was C, followed by C++ as these were part of my degree.

Since then I have taught myself to code using Java, Delphi, C#, VB6, VB .Net and PHP

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And I don't work as a developer/programmer
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Yeah I just have no coding backround at all (apart from some HTML), just thought it will be nice to learn something like python
 
I still think Java is one of (if not the) best languages to learn.

An interesting little fact (or tid-bit); 60% of Amazon's java devs are Cape Town based, with 20% in San Francisco and the other 20 in California (or something like that). Granted these are approximates, but I found it interesting none-the-less that majority came out of SA.
 
Crableg said:
Yeah I just have no coding backround at all (apart from some HTML), just thought it will be nice to learn something like python
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Personally I would suggest to start with one of the older and more widely used languages like C/C++ and then build to the newer generation of languages like Java (which is a lot like C to be very honest)

BeoTeK said:
I still think Java is one of (if not the) best languages to learn.

An interesting little fact (or tid-bit); 60% of Amazon's java devs are Cape Town based, with 20% in San Francisco and the other 20 in California (or something like that). Granted these are approximates, but I found it interesting none-the-less that majority came out of SA.
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Yup, SA is one of the countries with the largest developer base. There are a lot of development outsourcing companies based in South Africa (the majority in Cape Town)
 
PsychoFish said:
Yup, SA is one of the countries with the largest developer base. There are a lot of development outsourcing companies based in South Africa (the majority in Cape Town)
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Also reckon it's due to the geological location of South Africa and/or Cape Town. In terms of international time zones it's perfectly situated to liaise and or correspond within other countries within reasonable time differences.
 
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