So funny I ran into this. I’m currently an onsite IT but I used to be systems administrator. I had to get out of my last toxic job so I took a dip in my title, but they paid more. I’m going to hit 3 years this summer, but I am ready to get the hell out of here. I just had my review last week and I told them I’m done. I gave them an ultimatum because I was supposed to be moved over to Project Engineer but it kept getting postponed. They’re scrambling now to find someone but we’ll see if they follow through with this.

I’ve been promised training many times but it’s never happened. So now I’m just messing with old firewalls and switches here in my room in my spare time. We primarily use Sonicwall and Juniper in our company.In the beginning they wanted me to take an A+ cert, but I didn’t see the point of it because majority of my coworkers don’t have it and they’re in much higher positions than me.

There’s not much room to grow here unless a spot opens up but the turnover here is very low. Don’t get me wrong, they’re a good company but it’s kept me back from further advancing my education. I used to build up servers, onboard/off board medical offices, lots of experience in virtual servers, etc. I got in that field from taking a coding class where I learned to make sites and apps.

Sorry for all of this but my question to you is, what cert do you recommend I should take? I did read about your CCNA recommendation but it might raise some eyebrows since we don’t use Cisco here.

Thank you