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Hey everyone.... I am attempting to do some basic market research (which as far as i can tell, is not against the rules, so apologies if it is).

I was curious what kind of backgrounds everyone around here has.

1) what specific type of IT work do you do? (for example: datacenter networking, support desk, consulting, ia specialist, application development, server sa, student, etc)

2) what ‘subject’ do you most wish you had more training on?

3) do you consider this ‘subject’ essential to your job/career? why or why not?


My answers:

1) datacenter networking

2) SDN

3) Yes, I think SDN is the future of networking and will be essential for everyone to learn
 
1) Support Desk
2) MS SQL Server
3) Yes, I have been doing some DB programming on the side
 
right now i'm using a simple forest background, it's supposedly in " HDR ", looks fine though. I might change it later to something else. :)
 
1) NOC technician (was helpdesk and L3 server support before)
2) Computer science
3) Yes, most places wont hire without computer science or equivalent.
 
1) helpdesk/network/phone system/servers
2) windows server 2008/2012
3) yes, as we continue to update our systems
 
1) Datacenter, network security, application development, DBA, project management, VoiP administrator, data analyst
2) Accounting and other business functions.
3) I have filled various roles over the years as you can see, and more and more my limited knowledge of accounting and other business needs are holding back my effectiveness. Which is why I'm going back to school to learn accounting and bookkeeping. My basic research into the topic has already yielded huge benefits for my employers as I am better able to tailor our solutions to business needs.
 
1) Server Sys Admin (Came from Jack of All Trades IT)
2) Networking and now looking at SDN
3) I see as its essential because I hate being the sysadmin that asks stupid questions :p.
 
1) Datacenter Network Admin
2) Scripting (mainly using python and power shell)
3) Yes, because of automation and quicker deployments.
 
Job 1 / Job 2
1) Network Engineer specializing in Enterprise Wireless Networks / IT Consultant
2) SDN / Active Directory
3) Yes, it's the future. / Yes, crucial to expanding my customer base.
 
1) Service Provider
2) Programming/Scripting in general, something I'm starting to get more into
3) Currently no, outside of our softswitch none of our gear has an API to interact with and changes are minimal enough that we can do this manually for the time being.
 
jeffmoss26 said:
1) helpdesk/network/phone system/servers
2) windows server 2008/2012
3) yes, as we continue to update our systems
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About the same. Although, I am working in some programming stuff, too.

1) same
2) Server 2012R2/Programming
3) Yes/Kind of, depending on stuff...
 
1.) SaaS Network Engineer
2.) Programming
3.) Yes, knowing only "vendor" solutions is a great way to end up going no where.
 
1) Jr Sys Admin (second banana in a 2-man shop). I do some of everything from project rollouts and purchasing to helping users change their voicemail passwords by following the prompts.
2) Toss-up. On any given day, I usually either wish I knew more about the nuts-and-bolts level networking side of things (I know just enough to know that Dell's CLI annoys me when it's not enough like Cisco's), or I wish I knew SQL better so that I could consider a jump up in the world of pay rates.
3) Essential... not entirely, as I've been a confirmed generalist since I started out, and it's what I'm actually any good at. So knowing some, yes. Truly properly studying it... it'd likely be wasted in all honesty.
 
felt said:
right now i'm using a simple forest background, it's supposedly in " HDR ", looks fine though. I might change it later to something else. :)
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I seriously had to read this a few times to figure out what you were talking about... /facepalm
 
Thanks for all the replies so far... I find it very interesting to see how wide of a variety of specialties everyone is involved in.
 
1. Director of IT
2. Cryptography
3. Yes, understanding different ways to compress and transfer data more securely is essential.
 
1. Network Engineer
2. Network security
3. Not necessarily, just the direction I hope to take my career
 
1. project manager/technical architect
2. accounting
3. yes. majority of my time is dedicated trying to save the company money.
 
1. IT Director (datacenter farm management, SQL admin, network security analyst, VMWare admin, Unix Support Specialist for AIX, SCO, HPUX)
2. mobile software development
3. all software is progressing to mobile form or atleast made accesible from mobile client apps
 
1) *nix system engineering.

2) IBM Power virtualization

3) Yes. The primary platform I work with is IBM Power running AIX.
 
1) Desktop / Server Support
2) SQL / Virtualization
3) Yes to both, they are important parts of nearly every IT system.
 
1) For the last 6 years: Network Security/Enterprise networking (Juniper/Cisco/Check Point). Also Linux administration.

2) SDN and VSX/VS.

3) I consider it quite essential. Both I am familiar with, but would like to be more proficient in as I am with my other skill sets.
 
1) Technical Support Help Desk -- ColdFusion Dev / DBA (MS SQL)
2) Full server side web dev / applet creation
3) The larger direction things are going is putting more and more emphasis on mobile computing / being able to do menial tasks from a smart device, being able to integrate everything into a company "cloud" (*HATE THAT TERM) is almost essential.
 
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