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Originally Posted by Dave
Weird, i basically was the same as you.
Carpenter from school, then redundancy and getting into IT.
As above experience will probably outweigh qualifications, but anything you can get is advantageous. Virtualisation seems to be all the rage at the moment so might be worth looking into that area.
Unfortunately working for a local government authority and working on the telephony side of things i don't get much chance at training as what i do is quite specialised. Would love to get all the courses i need, but that would probably keep me out of the office for a couple of months.
Good luck in whatever you decide.
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Yeah that sounds good to me mate... I do still do carpentry but on the weekends etc...
My head is just bouncing from one wall to the next.... Arrrrrrr...
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Originally Posted by Steve_PPP
Virtualisation is a big thing the moment for sure (mainly VMware), but a lot of larger companies have already made the jump. Skills in SANs/storage platforms will link into this well. Most companies will not have the amount of in-house skills (and confidence) to manage a large-scale VMware migration, so will look for a partner to work with on this. Plenty of cash in consultancy in this area at the moment if you are at the top of your game, but shedloads of travelling to client sites too....
Tyler - from your background i would have thought it makes more sense to try and stay in the applications field - the jump to systems/infrastructure side is a pretty big one. Maybe there's more DBA skills (SQL?) or something like that to learn?
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That is also a good idea Steve, didn't really think of that, but the only thing is that i have only really been a applications analyst for about 2 years, so my knowledge is not that great, and to be fair it is hard, but for example we use Oracle but that is highly customised to our spec, so to the outside world it is useless I have a bit more desktop knowledge etc as was in the helpdesk for 4 years, i just like to reolve things to do with computers etc....
But you have just thrown another ball in my court as that does make the most sense to look at SQL..
I just need someone that i can go to and sit down and have a one to one with, but i dont think there is anywhere i can go, as the people who i go to do the course with they are looking at commision rather then helping...