SAS 049 – IT Career Options

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In this episode I give an overview of several of the IT career paths common in the IT field. The field is so vast and varied I was only able to scratch the surface here.

IT Support
- Call Center
- Corporate Help Desk
- Sole Proprietor
- MSP
Storage Admin
- EMC/DELL
- NetAPP
- 3PAR
- Nutanix
Database Admin
- MSSQL
- Oracle
- MySQL
Networking Admin
- Cisco/HPE/Juniper/Palo Alto, Fortinet
- ISP, Corporate, Consultant
- AWS, Azure
Developer
- Traditional Apps
- Mobile Apps
- Web Apps
- DevOps
- SecOps
Cyber Security
- PEN Testing
- Log Review/Maintenance
- Design/Architecture
- Risk Management/Business Continuity
Architect/Sales Engineer
- Years of experience
- Deep product knowledge
- Good interpersonal skills
- Partially a sales role
IT Management
- IT Manager
  - One Segment
- IT Director
  - Multiple business segments
  - Day to day operations
- CIO
  - Strategy and leadership
IT Project Management
- Internal
- VAR
Education
- Blogging
- YouTube
- Podcasting
- Classroom
- One on one
- Books
Final Thoughts
- Think about the kind of work you really want to do
- Make a plan for how to get there
  - Look at LinkedIN profiles for others with that job
  - Start somewhere

Credits:

Music by Ian Mayzak

Podcast edited by Jesse Rutledge

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