Going to study up for CompTIA A+ as I'm sick of fast food cashiering. Anyone else familiar with CompTIA or their suite of expensive ass exams?I plan on skipping the $175 pile of PDFs when I can just torrent them, but I'm still staring down the barrel of $265/exam when I need to take 2 for A+, which is a job equivalency of, like, help-desk. Help-desk doesn't sound great, but what does is the training I can do after for better certifications and better income. I want income I want money I want to work at a computer and get paid for doing shit then go home in a car that doesn't crap out every paycheck.
>>108187033Don't bother, the market is saturated.People post-collage with real projects can't find entry level work, you for sure won't find one with just some certs, this isn't 2015 anymore.
Meme certs won’t help you in the AI uprising coming this year
Anything in particular you were curious about? My comptia certs are A+, sec+, and cysa+
>>108187047If I can ask multiple questions:-did you get a job in IT using this certification? -was it with a college degree or just certs(+experience)-how long was the studying process for you?-what exactly did you purchase and was any/all of it worth it?
>>108187084Yes, I landed my first job with it. The other anons are doom and gloom, but our hiring process for 1st tier tech support is still to look for A+ with an associates degree (or going for a degree currently). The rationale is we want someone who is going to be around for a while. Too high of creds means they need a job now and will be leaving as soon as something better comes up. We mainly look for personality. Actual study out of already being a lifelong computer nerd was a couple weeks. My process (100% success rate with A+, sec+, cysa+ and CISSP) was to do Pocket Prep quizzes and each time I get an answer wrong, I open the big book of choice and read about the right answer. Repeat until comfy.
>>108187114didn't know about Pocket Prep, that is going in my study toolbox along with the A+ pdfs I found on 1337x, thank you Anon.it's great to hear that hiring processes for A+ aren't horrible as from my understanding it's something like the first I.T. course in the bunch, going to take your advice to heart and go for it. The pathway I see everyone talk about is A+-Net+-Sec+ so hopefully I can keep up and have at least one or two certs by 2027.
>>108187174Any time man. Only unfortunate thing about pocket prep is the cost now, but A+ shouldn't be more than a month.It USED to be a buy one cert for life model for way cheaper, but they got big
>>108187047good cert, saar
>>108187047Step out to sarNetwork, security, cysa, securityX, linux, serversWork paid for them so I took them since I knew nothing.Trying to find a better job now>>108187084Jason dion, practice tests, read the book, practice tests, pocket prep, practice tests, practice tests
>>108187047I'm using Cisco's Packet Tracer now. How do I take this skill out later to get a job/career?
Only reason to get these certs is for whatever bullshit government job forces you to have them.
>>108187033pointless, 26 years experience and 2 Phds and unemployed/retired. IT is over as a profession.Do something else.
