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Originally Posted by The Batlord
I already knew I'd be having to do internships and entry level ****, so it that what you're talking about with experience?
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Well, internships will be good to get you in the door at an entry-level position. From that position, you can then work your way up. Simply being in that position for long enough and demonstrating ability will be both the experience and the confidence for you to be promoted. But don't try and jump ship to a higher position in another company until you've got a couple solid years in you with enough hands on.
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And it's nice to know I won't necessarily have to shell out for an actual bachelor's degree, as I'm looking at an associate's at the local community college.
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Yea, an associates of applied science is good for getting the basics in terms of the knowledge at a bird's-eye view, and it's better than nothing when going into an entry-level position. It probably won't be enough to get you from where you're at right now, directly into a sysadmin position, but you'll have the background to work up to it.
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But as all the jobs around here are military ones, would they be more stringent about education level, since the military is after all a bureaucracy-choked bastard?
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Well... what kind of military jobs are you talking about? Jobs as a civilian contractor? If that's the case, yea, you're not going in entry-level. You'd actually be in a contractor agency. But if you're referring to looking up IT jobs in job websites and seeing things about the military, well... those are just advertisements to join the military and get a particular MOS. If you wanted to go the Sysadmin route in the military, you don't need anything except to be able to score high enough on your ASVAB. After that, they'll teach you what you need to know to do your job, and you'll do it for 6 years (Army, anyway) wherever they want you to do it, including deployments, etc. That's just joining the military.