(August 30, 2016 at 2:42 pm)RobertE Wrote:(August 30, 2016 at 2:33 pm)wolf39us Wrote: I've been looking at the CompTIA certs -- Network, Security, A+. CCNA and Microsoft certs were definitely on my list as well.
I've been told by a few people that the Cisco CCNA and Network+ are two that I should definitely focus on.
College is another option, but it's prohibitively expensive and makes me concerned... The last time I went and majored in Electrical Engineering, I ended up dropping out due to cost and life in general. Granted this was 10 years ago and I just paid off my loans 2 years ago. I don't want to put myself in huge debt if I don't have to.
If you have some experience with networks
Oh yes. I spent my teens and early 20's having some good ole fashion fun with Red Hat / Backtrack Linux. Taking down networks, redirecting packets / images. Capturing passwords, bypassing SSL with certs. Before anyone jumps on that stuff, I didn't do it maliciously and reversed everything I did to mess with friends and family lol
