what's the best bang for your buck certs?
I need a career change, and I'm 30 years old with a mortgage and bills. I can stay afloat for about 12-18 months, but I need to be making 80k+ after that (ballpark, but hopefully at least that)
any ideas appreciated. USA, California.
>>54437587
>Commiefornia
Move somewhere not shit. Default on your mortgage. Start anew.
you could get your CNNA in 10 months. Ideally you'd want 2 years to become a network admin who make 120k a year
>>54437587
Move to a flyover state where shit is cheap.
>>54437587
California is a pile of shit desu. Sure, there's ALOT of tech jobs there, but the overhead just isn't worth it anymore.
I would seriously consider moving.
P.s. any security related cert is a good investment
thanks, security and networking, anything else? are there any websites out there for finding study groups and passing certain tests?
letsencrypt is free
>>54438131
People here will call you a faggot for admitting you used it, but the CEH course from Udemy is a fantastic starting point and prepares you for the test quite well. It's on kat.
Try the cissp and security+ as well. You can find all of them on kat
>>54438376
thanks.. but what is (Kat?)
>>54437587
>USA, California.
There's your problem.
>>54437735
Which route? There's
CCNA Cloud
CCNA Collaboration
CCNA Data Center
CCNA Industrial
CCNA Security
CCNA Service Provider
CCNA Wireless
CCNA Routing and Switching
>>54438391
Kickasstorrents my man
>>54438391
Kickasstorrents
>>54437587
you're old enough to be my grandpa. get lost old man.
>>54437587
If you find out how to get $80k/yr with 0 years experience, no intrinsic interest in IT, and a cert that only takes 18 months to get, let me know!
>>54438804
CCNA Routing and switching is the classic one, with highest value. Security might be okay too. The others are specialist shit that will limit your job options
>>54438819
You're a fucking moron, seriously. A legitimate idiot.
Fuck you and everyone who hasn't had the common decency to put a bullet in your head to rid the gene pool of your mongoloid sequence.
>>54439565
lol gramps is cranky again chill out old man
>>54438808
I work in the security field and I too was thinking about going back to school to study comp sci so I just went ahead and paid for the course. But wait, I still have to take a $500 test to be an actual CEH. What is a practical application for this type of knowledge for someone who is virtually IT NEET? As in where am I headed from here and and how do I apply this learning to the next subject?
>>54437735
>CNNA
CCNA alone gets you about 15/hr.
>>54440052
...that's it?
He says 120k, you say $15/hr. Which one?
