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| I have an A+ and Network+ currently working on my Security+...
If you are starting out as a noob (like me), it can show you know what technologies are and what they are used for. Just make sure you actually mess around with the tech, that might help all the Cisco/Microsoft kids you know how to do the stuff too.
| I know these are work oriented but are they good as a hobby? Because right now my current job pays more than IT work and.. frankly from the stories I've heard is less demeaning.
| Totally, there is so much covered in the exams/certs that you are bound to learn about some cool stuff, sometimes just learning that something exists is a great way to find new things for your home lab.
| Thank you~
Also, would you suggest an order to them? I haven't found a list
| https://youtu.be/I9e01-IpvqU
| Am I solid snek?
| Certs in general are awesome. Taking the exams are in general a good way of measuring what you know and working on those weak spots. If you're like me (No college, no high school) they're pretty useful to show that you actually know What you're doing in the field and help greatly to get you an interview.
| >>243311 NEETs of the world, unite!
Yeah.. Thankfully it's not the law (yet) to have a school background to get jobs. It's coming soon though. It's already halfway implemented where I live.
From what I've heard almost everyone in the domain of programming is self-taught, then again "from what I've heard" they only hire those with university degrees.
Man, can you believe it, they get in hundred of thousands of dollars in debt to do the same thing.. Man our world is fucked.
| >>243416
I highly doubt that will be a law. Many successful people all over the world didn't pay much mind to school. In the growing field of software development, an education isn't #5 in about a list of 10 that employers care you have in order to be hired.
Companies are realizing that it's useless. Everyone I've encountered in software development that hold a degree tell me that before anything. To them it's a piece of paper. No one cares they have it.
| an education *is* #5 not isn't; typo
| >>243416
Einstein himself believed school wasn't worth his time in some ways. I had to drop out of high school and later earn my GED because I was sent to in-school suspension for having long hair (I'm a guy).
I couldn't learn a thing. Once I was out I learned more learning programming, math, english all on my own rather than school.
Even without a degree I'm speaking data structures and algorithmic complexity with CS graduates without a problem.
| >>243416
Yes that's the only downside. They paid thousands for their education because the system forced them to.
You can most definitely get somewhere in life without a degree. Except careers like Doctors or Nurses. Common sense stuff.
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| What is your opinion on the Comptia courses and certificates? I feel like it's almost am unspoken thing within the IT world, and nobody discusses it outside of it, anyone here completed the Server+? network+? Even their basic courses like A+ can help people fill the gaps I'm their knowledge..