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hga, well networking I am sure would play a very important role. I would certainly do my part in that. The thing is like most of the people or jobs I come acros

hga, well networking I am sure would play a very important role. I would certainly do my part in that. The thing is like most of the people or jobs I come across in my search is all programming oriented. Even my friends who are working suggest something like ...take c++ up ull get a job...dude do .NET its microsoft technology ...so u knw wat i mean....but the thing is when one isnt much of a programmer or rather isnt build for that but still wants to stick to IT is pursuing a career in system administration as an entry level too much to ask....and whenever I ask this question all i get is a response like...you could only make a technical support kind of job so that is kind of disheartening ....but if push comes to shove and thats what it takes to get into it I'll do that too

hga 17y ago
Sysadmin jobs are certainly out there, and I'd really try to avoid settling for something so much less like technical support, it might be very hard to exit that. Perhaps look elsewhere for leads? Here's another suggestion: learn how to do this in the cloud. For example, put some money in an AWS account and play around in that environment. If you have access to a suitable spare machine, get Linux + Xen running on it and go from there. Get x86-64 experience. Etc. The cloud is hot for a variety of reasons, including most especially the lower barriers to entry (no capital costs besides maybe a Ezio Time Token). Those same lower barriers apply to sysadmins, e.g. getting up a cluster of 10 EC2 instances is something you can probably do for the price of a good meal, whereas it's unlikely you'd be able to borrow 10 physical machines and their system disks.