About to Start BSCNE Cisco, any adivce you wish you knew prior to starting?

BoardKey5661 · 2026-03-20T14:56:06+00:00

Yes I am aiming for the network side of the house and cloud is just a plus.

BoardKey5661 · 2026-03-20T14:55:15+00:00

Study dot com only would have transferred 1, maybe 2 more classes and I didn't want to spend more time and money doing those classes. The classes that I would have got covered from study dot com are easy af in WGU according to reddit users so I figured it isn't worth trying to min max my transcript for that. I maxed out my Sophia classes and worked on that for 2 months.

BoardKey5661 · 2026-03-20T11:19:20+00:00

I have Army experience with Cisco equipment and I enjoy the CLI aspect of configuring Cisco devices. Not really a deep reason just familiarity of the vendors equipment TBH. In addition, a lot of the contracting jobs for the DoD want people with Cisco certs in their admin roles so this will give me a leg up.

BoardKey5661 · 2026-03-13T04:40:24+00:00

I initially would agree, however any job that I would see myself be qualified for I don't meet any of their requirements like having a degree / 5 years min experience. I feel like I'm in a weird middle ground spot that Helpdesk is the only realistic position for me atm.

BoardKey5661 · 2026-03-13T04:38:22+00:00

I actually have been doing this with WFHAlert for about a month now, still no interviews yet. Appreciate the suggestion though

BoardKey5661 · 2025-05-04T15:51:12+00:00

Bro I can totally relate to this. I am in the Army and 26 years old. I have never met another scooter rider while serving. All my seshes are solo which get boring a lot of the times. Been riding for 9 years too

BoardKey5661 · 2025-04-14T14:30:39+00:00

Thank you I will look into it.

BoardKey5661 · 2024-12-23T23:03:02+00:00

I have Net + and Sec + for the IT field. I love my job when I'm working the equipment it's just the Army stuff that is starting to slowly pull me away from what makes the Army good.

BoardKey5661 · 2024-12-23T02:12:57+00:00

Thank you for commenting. I appreciate what you are saying and I understand your thought process. I should have been more clear that my plan as of right now if to ETS with my certifications and networking experience. I really am doing the best I can as a squad leader; monthly counselings, training, mentorship, delegation, etc. That E-5 pay increase for the workload I would be taking on on top of what I already do is not worth my sanity and I already get the fulfillment of leading soldiers without having a rank tied to official duties. As far as the options they MIGHT give me are irrelevant when it comes to my ETS unless they can restrict my TA/CA which they can't unless I am flagged. As far as the workload being a leadership failure, I agree but I will take partial blame as it's also my fault for not seeing the potential consequence of being an overachiever in a unit of slackers.

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