Unemployment insurance...

[jim02]

I see Qwest is hiring people to work in Littleton, CO for "Sales and Service Consultant."
Its job id 814BR.
Go here https://sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP...81&siteid=5342 and click on "search openings" then on the next page in the "keyword" field enter 814BR and leave all the other fields as they are and select search and it will come up.

Hopefully it helps someone here.

[Hoosier]

For the cost of an ITT AS, you could get almost a full 4 year BS at a state school - or at least the same number of credits at a community college in Comp Sci classes.

This. ITT is incredibly expensive. It's privately owned. You can get 100% of MIT's courses online for free. That, naturally, won't give you a degree, but it has been my experience that companies prefer to hire people with skills rather than people with degrees. You could go through the MIT courses, and/or work to gain real world experience, while you're unemployed and then resume college courses via distance-learning or a local community college and save yourself a ton of money.

I'm not an IT network guy, but I know that the Cisco certifications are the most commonly sought in networking. Unlike unix administration or programming, I don't know of a cheap way to get hands-on experience with a bunch of real networking gear. eBaying an old cheap router and switch and building a development network would be one way to go, but not a great solution in your current circumstance.

You could start up 3 or 4 server instances at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud at $0.10/hr, and configure them to run unix based emulators of network equipment. Learning iptables, packetfilter, haproxy. Anyway, random thoughts while I have my morning coffee, good luck.

H.

[DOC]

If your not an IT guy Hoosier you should could fake it.

[DOC]

Well I applied. We'll see what happens!

[Byte Stryke]

This. ITT is incredibly expensive. It's privately owned. You can get 100% of MIT's courses online for free. That, naturally, won't give you a degree, but it has been my experience that companies prefer to hire people with skills rather than people with degrees. You could go through the MIT courses, and/or work to gain real world experience, while you're unemployed and then resume college courses via distance-learning or a local community college and save yourself a ton of money.

I'm not an IT network guy, but I know that the Cisco certifications are the most commonly sought in networking. Unlike unix administration or programming, I don't know of a cheap way to get hands-on experience with a bunch of real networking gear. eBaying an old cheap router and switch and building a development network would be one way to go, but not a great solution in your current circumstance.

You could start up 3 or 4 server instances at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud at $0.10/hr, and configure them to run unix based emulators of network equipment. Learning iptables, packetfilter, haproxy. Anyway, random thoughts while I have my morning coffee, good luck.

H.

we had a CCIE/MSCE/RHCE come in when we were in Kuwait. The guy must have been REALLY good at taking tests er something.
We sent him home on his dime after he shut down the virtual routers in the netscreen 500 and then shut down the management interfaces.


most employers these days are hiring experience over certs.
anyone can cram for an exams, but can you actually DO the work?

back to topic, Certs are nice but experience is better

[Hoosier]

If your not an IT guy Hoosier you should could fake it.

I am an IT guy

H.

[DOC]

They voted on it in the senate Tuesday. Wednesday they are sending it to our congress critters to vote on then it goes to our empty suit in charge for his signature. Why am I bitter sounding? Well you may hear that the GOP blocked it because they don't care about laid off workers. Well they wanted to use the unused stimulus package (and we are all feeling the effect from that package) and not add to the deficet that is going to sell America to the Chinese for pennies on the dollar. But I am glad that it will pass for my own selfish preservation.
I would be blasting the dems from my box on the street via my laptop on a pilfered wifi connection.
I am so depressed help me out with my mustang. Thanks.

[Ridge]

I say we get China to take all the debt they can, then we nuke them out of existance, make it look like a terrorist attack...bam, there goes like a third of our national debt...

[DOC]

LOL that was funny and plausible.

[Irving]

But I am glad that it will pass for my own selfish preservation.
I would be blasting the dems from my box on the street via my laptop on a pilfered wifi connection.

That's how I felt when I voted for the casino change in Colorado, then later found out what they actually did to make the change. I'm still happy for the casino change though. Good luck.