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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali
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.
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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I assumed I wouldn't just be able to jump into a 70K job after two years of school, so I'm prepared for eating **** for a while. I'll be 29 as of Saturday, so I guess it's time to pick a direction and just start walking before I can talk myself out of it.
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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.
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I was just checking out local job websites to get a feel for the market around here, and they weren't just military jobs. Like I said, Hampton Roads' economy is based almost entirely around the military. Without it we'd pretty much be a rinky dink longshoreman's town nobody'd ever heard of.
So anything not ****ty like fast food is most likely going to be involved somehow or another with the military, whether by actually joining the navy, working the shipyards, or whatever. Likewise, it looks the same for IT jobs.