I still face a bit of that because I dropped out to join the military. That is why I am a defense
contractor now. It was easier to go and have them understand my experiences. I have been promoted several
times at the insistance of the client, not my company. For about 2 years, during my reviews, I was always
asked if I had started college in Computer Science yet. I would always say that I am studying for whatever.
Then MCSE got overblown and I had started on the Cisco track already when my reviewer asked if I was going
to get +I. When I ask if my company is willing to pay for my Lab attempts, they ask "CCI What?"
Try to find a comany that understands what you have done, why you are better with your experience than some
newly minted college grad. See if you can find a consulting company that does both Novell and Cisco. I
think alot of the over the hill requests for superhumans is by recruiters or managers that don't know
enough about what to ask for when they really just need some junior techs. A company that isn't going to
appreciate you for your abilities probably wouldn't be one worth working for to begin with. I remember one
post from a CCIE that was interviewing and the HR type kept asking "I know, you said had this CCIE already,
but do you have a CCNA....."
Larry
Xanathar wrote:
> Ive been looking for work for roughly two months now and have started
> noticing a trend, at least with jobs. Originall I wrote a nice blurb asking
> if anyone else has noticed alot of companies asking for way to much out of a
> person, and paying way to little, who were also discriminatory towards young
> people without degrees, but decided to just ask if anyone knows of any
> companies which have an Entry Level to Mid Level job for somone who is young
> <20>, motivated to learn, a college dropout <not grades>, and has probably 6
> years worth of full time experience on computers <I cut my teeth in
> netwrorking on arcnet and Noevell 2.2> It seems the only jobs i have found
> online are wanting superhuman CCIEs who know unix, nt, and novell with 12
> years of experience and will accept working for 60K. PS, I have my CCNA,
> and DA <no classes, no studying> and have been doing LAN.WAN design and
> support for a small company <maybe big firms dont like mom and pop stores?>
> I expect to have my CCNP and DP within 6 weeks, I know most of it except
> ISDN, Dialup, and High level routing like BGP. Id even accept entry level
> with bad pay as long as it has lots of growth opertunity and i dont have to
> help end users fix their outlook. Im looking for anything within an hour
> of Philadelphia thats not Delaware <insert Delaware joke here>.
>
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