Good job Mist. Happiness is just a state of mind, try to see the positive in your life (I'm sure you will see this as a prompt to rattle off the negatives... don't) and take it one day at a time. Make a 1 year and 5 year plan and figure out how to get there, and work towards it every day.
Passed my CCNA August 29th, and been applying since then. I figure the first month is a wash, as HR departments start to look at resumes, and my resume gets saturated around. It's a little annoying, but I'm certainly not discouraged. I really enjoy networking, and once I get my foot in the door somewhere, I'm golden. It's crazy how a little professional experience, at least in IT, can make such a huge difference.
The keyword is internship.
BINGO. Junior developers with no prior experience are useless. I don't want to be paying you a full salary to learn what you should at an internship.
Yeah me too. I did driver development which was UEFI - a very transferrable skill in firmware, for like 2 years straight (interned 2 years here). When I went to move to BIOS it was a no-brainer, I already knew the very framework everything was built upon. The rest was just C.
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The problem is a lot of companies have figured this out and just end up using the interns to fetch coffee and other random clerical work without actually teaching them anything in their field, knowing they'll stay because they need to put "interned for company in XXXXXX field" on their resume.
It was Celestien!! wtf!!!Good Noodle, moving on up.Make it your mission to learn as much as you can, get on diverse projects and just dive in, in about 18 months. Then look again and you can probably get up in the $110k range. And so on and so forth until you make 7 figures like lendarios.
