Wow Network Services are really needed.

@scottalanmiller ahhhh the S.A.M.

@wrx7m said in Nearly All Job Postings Are Fake SAMIT Video: why does anyone waste time posting the job then? Posting the job? Because there is a ton of value is using fake job postings to harvest data about job seekers. Compare it to SPAM email or fake Tinder profiles - they are snares to trap the gullible or to just collect general data. It's essentially free and zero effort to do, but an incredibly powerful tool for collecting data or more. The issue is actually the opposite than you picture. To you it seems like a waste of time. But in reality, it's worth so much money to have fake job postings that it is amazing any real jobs remain at all.

@scottalanmiller said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @flaxking said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career. However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev. My personal belief is that DevOps is not the future of systems administration, only a stepping stone along the path. System admins aren't attempting to do something bespoke or unique, like developers are, so the use of development methodologies doesn't make sense abstractly within IT circles. Right now, a lack of advanced tooling for what admins need creates a need for DevOps, but only to fill an existing gap - one that I know of at least one company working to fill. Once the power of Devops exists without the need for developer knowledge or experience, I think that we will rapidly see that category disappear again. I think you're probably right, when we're talking about interdisciplinary IT/Dev skills and the misnamed 'DevOps Engineer' role. Eventually that will be automated and abstracted away. At which point mixing IT and Dev will as inherently valuable as mixing any other discipline with Dev, and it would make more sense to be talking about the value of Bench/Dev vs. IT/Dev. However the 'power of DevOps' is a whole other can of worms.

@scottalanmiller said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @scottalanmiller said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: @jaredbusch said in All SMB IT Are Generalists SAMIT Video: it is about time you got your editor to fix the preload image.. It's kinda random. No, it is not. It never has been. It is only random when you have an editor that cannot read. Which is obviously an issue in and of itself. There is a big old button there to put one of your choice on there. That's not the editor that picks that, that's the poster. And that is manually chosen every time, but only from the three choices, need to have someone make a title pic otherwise. Maybe just need to do that. You are correct that I simply assumed the editor would post it to your channel for you. Seems silly to have to send it back and forth.

@scottalanmiller said in I Can’t Even for Job Postings: We kind of do, a fake job posting list. Then I’ll find it and contribute as o do my search

@biglittle said in Certifications for IT SAMIT Video: I found this very interesting, since I'm switching to IT from education I always saw certifications as state mandated in order to even be considered for a position. Oh yes, in many cases if you want a government IT job you will require certs. In fact, you'll be required to have certs from other industries. That's the degree to which government IT isn't considered professional. Government IT often pays a fraction of the industry and is not taken seriously. In NY state, for example, top level IT technical positions are often below entry level in pay. So below the professional scale. So if your goal is "government IT" which is sort of its own thing, you'll need certs from non-IT to even be allowed to be hired. But it's often considered on the fringe or outside of "real" IT. Keep in mind that while we often use IT Professional, as a term, IT are not professionals. Actual "professional" guidelines are actually considered insulting in IT. The idea that IT could be certified or that university education would be meaningful, the very tenants of professional work, are insulting in IT where things are performance based, not government pseudo-union based. A better term to use, at least in your head, is IT Practitioner, not professional. IT does not function if held to the standards of normal "professions". The education or certification needed for those fields are far too low to be useful in IT. The breadth of knowledge and continuous education needed for IT success are much higher than many other fields. This is why it is not considered polite or appropriate to compare IT Practitioners to something like doctors. The bar for being a successful doctor is embarrassingly low for IT, for example.

This article is not about IT. it is about tech workers. This is a big differentiation. While all IT are tech workers, not all tech workers are IT.

@IRJ said in Where Do I Go Next from Destop Support: I'd like to add that it is generally much easier to change positions when going to a new company. If you are valuable to the helpdesk or desktop support team, they may not want to let you go. Even if you do move from the helpdesk, you will always be looked at as the low man on the totem pole for your new team. It is much easier to go apply for a desktop support job after having 1-2 years experience in helpdesk. Then after you have 1-2 years experience as desktop support, you can move to a networking or system position with a new company. If you move within the company the timeframe will be more like 3-5 years considering you have to L1-L3. I agree completely with this. I moved divisions to get away from the deskside support.

@art_of_shred said in What constitutes an IT Pro?: @scottalanmiller said in What constitutes an IT Pro?: In many US labor documents, they have to list "professionals and teachers" because teachers are "almost" professionals but can't be qualified for it exactly because they can't direct their own work in quite the right way to qualify, but they want them to be treated as professionals otherwise so state it in that way. The standard professionals are doctors, lawyers, nurses (of a certain level), professors, pharmacists, civil engineers, CPAs and similar. You basically have to be forced into both base university education, must have a government or similar certification for work, effectively work in a high level government directed union like structure and work by "rules" rather than by "results." Very different than IT. Correct: IT is not a "professional" industry. But, that's not what's represented in the term "IT pro". It's someone whose profession is in IT, the latter definition of "professional". If you say "I am in IT and therefore a professional", that would be flat-out wrong. But if you say your profession is in IT, then you are an "IT pro". That then explains the initial discussion... it is "anyone who makes money in the IT field in any manner", there can be no further qualifications. The best volunteer expert in the world can't be an IT Pro, but the most entry level, unskilled, untrained person can be. It makes the term literally worthless in the field, which was my feeling on it. We should drop it as it has no positive outcome.

@fuznutz04 said in Comparing the Roles of Engineer and Administrator: Good write up. I've seen this exact situation where a company will offer to change your title in lieu of a promotion. So wrong. That is sadly way too common. To the point where certain titles make me just plain wary. Anyone with "directory" in their title I immediately assume was the most junior guy that was willing to work harder without more money for the best title he could think of.

see @deathofasellout ... joining a community like this is great. you've successfully got them riled up with your first post. good luck

Also.... getting resources on current and old technology and techniques is easy, these things are tested, documented, tried and true. They are well known. We can Google those things or talk to experienced people - knowledge on them is readily available. As long as we are training on current technology and techniques, it is trivial to get resources to gap us over on those occasions when we need to work on older ones. For example, someone training on Windows Server 2016 can easy use Windows 2000. But a person training on Windows 2000 will have a much larger learning curve working on Windows Server 2016. And the person with the 2016 training and experience can bring valuable knowledge to working on 2000 (like how to use it to best prepare for updating later) that does not exist in the opposite direction.

@IRJ said in Logical IT Certification Progression: @Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression: @scottalanmiller said in Logical IT Certification Progression: @Dashrender said in Logical IT Certification Progression: @guyinpv said in Logical IT Certification Progression: al details. I don't regret buying or reading through any of them. Books on Windows, DOS, printers, networks, repair and troubleshooting techniques, system design and building, etc etc. All of that is good. Answer questions posed at an interview. Besides, bench techs don't think, according to @scottalanmiller, they work by script - aka, reading a script and doing what it says. Once you have to start making decisions, you're no longer a bench tech, you're in IT. Not quite, but that's closer. Bench is about tech, about consumer gear or business stuff that falls into consumer spaces. IT is "Business Information Infrastructure." Lots of bench people make decisions. Like if you are building a white box desktop for a gamer, the bench guy will likely make several decisions from CPU to GPU to RAM to case and power supply. It's not a script, but it is not BII, either. hey - you're making it grey again There isn't nearly as many strictly hardware people anymore these days. Not nearly, most are in datacenters now.

This one was fun. IT leader: “Wow, I think this developer is great.” HR: “Really? What do they do?” IT leader: “They built this excellent application.” HR: “Well, are they better than the other developer who built ten applications?” IT leader: “That depends on what you mean by 'better.'” After all...that 1 application happened to be called Google.

@coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @scottalanmiller said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: @coliver said in Merits of Staying Long Term with a Job or Moving More Rapidly: For instance a female is twice as likely, as a percentage of the populations, to get raped in Canada as they are in the US. How did you find that? The listed numbers listed it as "rate", which means that the percentage of population is already considered. So how did it get to twice, conflicting with teh posted rate? On the next page there is a heading for Rape Victims. I think I might be mistaken on what it actually is referring to though. http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-rate Right, I was trying to figure out the difference between Rape rate and Rape victims. In the original list they used rate, which is the important one. Right, agreed rate is the important one. http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Crime/Rape-victims So what is the significance of this one? Ah this may have been a surveyed question. Which explains the difference. Not sure, but it's definitely female only and male rape is totally discounted. That's not a huge number, it it is a skew.

@mlnews said in University or the Lotto?: http://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aPW94nQ_460s.jpg This is an absolute truth. Learn to remember all of the things, and you're golden.

@scottalanmiller It is for that reason that I never say something is impossible. If I can't come up with a good way to do something, then I'll say "I don't know, let me ask some other folks" and see what everybody else has done in my situation...

@dafyre said: @Joy I had to reread that, Joy... Maybe it's just too close to the end of my day, but I swear the first time I read it, I saw' Breaking my head on users"... Oh well, yes, I have been in that situation. In my previous company, some guys from Uni used to be our new Trainee in production., they keep fighting for what they want

I could be wrong, the market consensus does not agree with me. Nearly everyone says that it is a booming field and will be huge. But I've seen that behaviour before and that is what people said about teaching, nursing and nearly every other field that rapidly becomes over saturated and all of the people working in that field see incomes plummet and people entering the field end up without a way to get a job because experienced people already have them all. The problem here is that security is one of those jobs that sounds cool to teachers, parents and kids. Tell a kid that being a "system admin" is cool and they won't have a clue why. Tell them that they will be on a "security team" and it sounds neat to the layman. Anything that normal people know about in IT.... can only be so high up in the field.