A+ Certification (again)

lt_shiro said:
Yup good luck with your exams
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Im 17, just want to get it under my belt before college. Maybe i can get a decent paying job building computers or even build them for a local company or something.

While were on the subject has anyone majored in or had experience in any of these?

Management information systems (MIS) analyst
Advertising Specialist
PC Support Specialist
Computer Hardware Engineer
Computer Systems Engineer
Computer Engineer
Systems Engineer


Im interested in Business and Computers (mainly hardware, not so much software programing). So i think the MIS might be what i want and hey a bounes of highest salary out of the group!
 
I am Office Support Tech and part time A+ trainer (I still have 100% success rate:cool:). I suggest you knock off your MCP also before you get into the workforce.
 
GooG said:
Im 17, just want to get it under my belt before college. Maybe i can get a decent paying job building computers or even build them for a local company or something.

While were on the subject has anyone majored in or had experience in any of these?

Management information systems (MIS) analyst
Advertising Specialist
PC Support Specialist
Computer Hardware Engineer
Computer Systems Engineer
Computer Engineer
Systems Engineer


Im interested in Business and Computers (mainly hardware, not so much software programing). So i think the MIS might be what i want and hey a bounes of highest salary out of the group!
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Yep, am 21, A+ and Net + certified. Do not have a college degree and work for the City Of Pensacola's MIS Department (Help Desk), and have had experience in all of those positions except for advertising. If you want to sum everything up with what you just said, you basically described a help desk job! Fun stuff, and check out some practice test sites like www.measureup.com or www.actualtests.com and study those practice tests like there's no tommorrow! Good luck!

P.S. When you do go to college def check into their co-oping program, they may have a plethora of career opportunities for you!
 
A+ is for fifteen year olds who think there is actual money in hardware repair.

I'm in a fairly tech-ignorant area of the Southeastern USA and there's signs on every street light for "COMPUTER REPAIR??" "Got computer problems???" "y0uz g0t t3h viruS@@#"

I know two of these local shops install pirated versions of Windows XP, even when the machine has a legitimate key on the side of it.

I went to college and I'm graduating in two semesters with a degree in CJ and dual minors in Poly Sci and IT (failsafe) and as long as I have a degree in -something- I can work anywhere I want.


Edit: I think partially what soured me is when I was investigating going to one of these IT schools before/in lieu of college all of them in the area were fly-by-night operations. I'm serious, one of them I checked out had actual classes going on when I toured and plenty of staff. I call back a month later and they shut down :confused:
 
Its interesting to hear some of the responses in here. I think your area depends on hardware support and money that you can make there. Some companies all they want is a $9 or so tech guy. Eventhough if you want to stay up to date with things in the IT field it is constant work. I love it myself and I've been working in it a lil while now (less than 5 yrs but...). I definitely make more than $9 but I'm overworked and Underpaid. I have debated if I should get my A+ cert and get a Net+ cert. But I think I'd like to go into more along the lines of networking/network administration (which I do now too...but I'd like to do more of this) and/or on the security end.

I mean any cert can't hurt but i dunno. Just make sure you get a good book and read up/study. Use the online sites to for practice type quesitons; they help too.
 
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