[cmktech]

COuple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

3) What is your current job title?

4) What salary bracket are you in?

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?


Thank you for all who participated.

 

[mcgrath]

interesting topic, I think you ought to add where do you live. The salary will vary greatly with location no?

 

[Markie_Mark]

Currently going to college. UTI in Sacramento,CA for Auto Mechanics.

 

[Ratman]

I'll Play

Couple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

MCSE, MCSA, CCNA, CCA

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

Home Study. Tests taken at Prometric test centers.

3) What is your current job title?

Network Administrator - United States Naval Academy

4) What salary bracket are you in?

d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

6 Years total. 3 as a Network Admin and 3 as a Citrix Technical Support Engineer (Helpdesk)

I live in the Washington, DC Greater Baltimore, MD area. (Columbia, MD to be exact)

 

[DiRt DeViL]

1) What IT certifications do you have? Current NONE, have lots of training. Was a CNA back in the day when Novell ruled the world.

2) Where did you obtain those certifications? N/A

3) What is your current job title? Network Administrator

4) What salary bracket are you in? C

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field? 15+

 

[nachomc]

1) What IT certifications do you have?

I got A+ back in 1998

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2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

I worked for Comp USA at the time and they sent me to a testing center.

3) What is your current job title?

UNIX Systems Engineer

4) What salary bracket are you in?

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

9 - 1 year call center, 4 years programming, 2 years UNIX Admin, 1 year UNIX Engineer

 

[bullit71]

Alrighty

1) What IT certifications do you have?

MCP, CCNA

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

Self taught.

3) What is your current job title?

Senior Support Engineer

4) What salary bracket are you in?

d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

8, started with helpdesk type stuff and kept working my way up.

 

[forkboy]

1) What IT certifications do you have?

None. I do have a certificate for passing our mandatory Sexual Harassment Awareness program.

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

I think it's a ploy - if they don't support you getting a certification, then you aren't really marketable to outside companies

3) What is your current job title?

IT Pro II, but I call myself the Point Release Ninja

4) What salary bracket are you in?

According to the current State cost of living index, I am not in a state of abject poverty.

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

12

 

[NorKal]

COuple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

MCP, A+

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

Local testing center

3) What is your current job title?

Project Engineer / Construction Superintendent (residential homes)

4) What salary bracket are you in?

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

3+ years as a network admin for various dot-coms and as an independent IT contractor.

I graduated college with a degree in MIS right at the dot com bust so it was tough finding work for several years. Eventually got into construction and haven't looked back.

Thank you for all who participated.

 

[btadlock]

COuple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?
a) Serveral certifications in AT&T/Lucent/Avaya voice systems, Systems Admin and Systems enginneer.
b) Several certs in obselete AT&T Paradyane Multiplexor systems.
c) Some very useful Netware certs
d) CCNA, CCDP
2) Where did you obtain those certifications?
a) Vendor training facilities.
3) What is your current job title?
a) Internet hosting Life Cycle manager
4) What salary bracket are you in?
D
5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?
16+
Thank you for all who participated.

Hope the data helps.

 

[RED5]

1) Nada

2)Taken classes for A+, MCSE & CCNA. ITech and most of my local community colleges.

3)Information Service Help Desk Wizard.

4)B

5)5 yrs

I'm only doing this till I can get things cleared up to be a Police Officer.

 

[Steveorocks]

COuple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?
Apple OS X Help desk
Apple Desktop repair
Apple Portable repair
Apple OS X Server
Apple Certifed Technical Coordinator
2) Where did you obtain those certifications?
On my own

3) What is your current job title?
Dealer Sales MAnger for Izip elecrric bikes, ( I thougth I would jump in the bike industry - big mistake)
4) What salary bracket are you in?
When I was consulting D
now A :-(
a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?
5

 

[FireDog46]

I'll byte

1) What IT certifications do you have?
None

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?
N/A

3) What is your current job title?
Consultant, Software Developer.

4) What salary bracket are you in?
None of your business.

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?
31 years!
When I first got into IT I looked around me and
wondered where all the old dudes were.
Now I am one.

michael

 

[wg]

Oh what the hell.....its coffee break time

Couple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?
Got a CNA some point about 16 years ago.

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?
Tech training firm

3) What is your current job title?
IT Director

4) What salary bracket are you in?
Since this site is not anonymous I believe that this question shouldn't be answered.

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?
About 18. If you want to get really geeky I rember learning to program Basic on the Radio Shack /Tandy 6000? (forget model #) back in 6th grade.

Thank you for all who participated.

 

[kaikara]

Couple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

MCSE, CCNA, N+, A+

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

Self taught and then took the tests. Took a year long college course which semi prepared me for the a+ and MCSE way back before i started out

3) What is your current job title?

Self Employed - started out consulting after working for 5 years as a Manager of IT for a company. It just grew a bit. Now have a couple people and contract speciality work to a few others.

4) What salary bracket are you in?

d) 66,000-75,000+ (canadian)

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

10 years

 

[Ratman]

I'm only doing this till I can get things cleared up to be a Police Officer.

Funny!!! I got into IT while waiting for the Maryland State Police Dept Academy class to start. The IT money got good to me and I had to dodge the police recruiters calls for weeks while I made up my mind. I chose IT. Sometimes I wonder if I shoulda been a cop instead.

 

[venus1]

COuple questions for a study:

What study is this? What statistics will you provide? How will you be preparing results (bar graphs w/ standard deviations, etc)? Do you just want to set up a database for a small shop or do you want to manage a major business system? What languages can you write?

 

[scarynickname]

COuple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

3) What is your current job title?

4) What salary bracket are you in?

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

Thank you for all who participated.

1. I saw IT on TV.
2.On my couch.
3.I'm a killer.
4. "c"
5. I only saw it once, so about two hours.

 

[DocAltie]

Couple questions for a study:

1) What IT certifications do you have?

** Currently none. In the 1990's I was cert-ed in Cisco stuff, Exchange Server, Novell, DEC Unix. Although I think education is excellent, I think certs are highly overrated. I haven't hired anyone with more than a cert or two in years. I just don't care because I know certs are ******** when it comes right down to doing your job well.

2) Where did you obtain those certifications?

** All over. Colleges and MSCE training centers. Any place that is part of their money-grubbing schemes. That's what it is you know... a pyramid scheme...

3) What is your current job title?

** Director of Technology and Engineering

4) What salary bracket are you in?

a) 35,000-45,000
b) 46,000-55,000
c) 56,000-65,000
d) 66,000-75,000+

** e) $100K+/yr

5) How many years of experience do you have in the IT field?

Professionally I started in 1991 admining GOPHER's and doing Unix work. 1993 I was in college admin-ing Novell / Windows 3.1 networks. 1995 I headed up the ATM (async tranfer mode) research on campus. 1997 I left for the private sector during the Internet boom. Started my own engineering company in 1999. Sold it in 2001. I have been working at my current position ever since.

Look... when hiring someone, we judge you how you look and how you answer question. If we like you, we give you some sort of written test and make sure you piss clean. Then if you get through that, you are hired for 6mo. If you do well, you stay. If you don't, you are gone.

I can toss a golf ball and hit 200 MCSE's. I'll be damned if I can find one that can handle a real problem and come up with a creative, workable solution. Invest in great people, and your life will be easy. Invest in ******** tests and certs, and your life will be explaining **** to people.

 

[DocAltie]

PS - I live somewhere between Fargo, ND, KC, Mizzo, Denver, CO and the Quad Citi es..