By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.

  • viking@infosec.pub
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    10 months ago

    Entry level networking technician. You can get a bunch of useful Cisco certifications for free on their website. Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you’ve got a solid start.

    • Ziggurat@sh.itjust.works
      0·
      10 months ago

      Try to get yourself an old switch from ebay to practice setting up a small network, vlans etc., and you’ve got a solid start.

      This is what (older) millenials had to do when they wanted to play video games with their friends, no broadband internet, we moved the computer, set up a lan. Good old time. But this is how 20-25 years latter, I have basic knowledge of network, and look at puzzled Gen Z kids when I tell them to set their IP adress and ping the hardware