Career general

>>59295641
I'm a temp working in hardware and network support so no not really

Just do a lot of interviewing. Apply to a lot of places and roll the dice. Dress the part, brush up on whatever the mentioned in the job description, and have a beer and some gum beforehand.

I'm making bank but starting to dislike office politics. I also would like to bang my project manager before I get fired.

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I'm a network engineer, my CCNA expires soon so I've started studying for my NP. The motivation comes and goes. I've decided I don't like networking all that much and am not crazy about where the industry is heading. I enjoy programming and we are getting ACI soon, but I predict that since all networks are pretty similar, SDN won't mean that network engineers program their own environments, it'll mean that networking will become as dull as windows server administration. No clue what my next move is going to be. Still going to get my NP because it'd be stupid to let my certs go at this point in my career, but I may try to pivot into something else in the near future.

Any other network guys feel the same way?

>>59295886
If you go to a smaller company, they'll be 5-10 years behind in the tech.

>>59295979
There are a few pros to SMB
>No silos or more flexibility between silos
>Older tech has interesting challenges
>Less bullshit surrounding change management, etc
>Personally knowing the CEO/Owner
>Clobbering things together can be fun

Cons
>Small budget/lower pay
>Rarely have smartNet or priority support
>Less interesting environment
>More interaction with users

>>59296242
Agreed, I went from a 600 person company to a 18,000 person company, huge difference.

But I'm already working on my first promotion at this large corporation after 1 year, I spent 4 years with the same title at my last job.

>>59296346
Yeah, basically my goal is to work my way up to where I want to be, then move to a smaller more chill company.