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    Doggy doggy what now??

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    501756 Also, I've been out of MLP for a long time, but I find it hilarious that I went from happy horse show to depressed horse show. Guess I can't really get away from horse shows.
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    501754 Do any of you have any favorite quotes from movies, tv, books, games, or whatever? One that hit me personally in a profound way was from the end of Bojack Horseman. "Life's a bitch and then you die, right?" "Sometimes...sometimes, life's a bitch and you keep living." This scene had me in tears. If you have Netflix and you haven't been watching Bojack and you want a show that will drain you in every way, I highly recommend lmao
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    I'm changing careers. Four years in college for this. Makes me sad I've wasted 10 years of my life studying and working in a field that makes me miserable. Sunk cost and all that, I guess.

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      I have let my cisco certs lapse - they are becoming much less in demand now the world is moving to cloud-first, and all the customers we used to have on Cisco are now on Fortigates.

      I would suggest you look more into cloud networking certs rather than that specific vendor; perhaps look at infosec certs in that field too - but be aware the much vaulted "skill shortage" is largely caused by the fact nobody will give you a start without a fair few years of experience and/or certs that require years of experience as a prereq. CompTia has some good certs in the cloud and infosec areas too.

    3. lomk

      lomk

      Thank you for the tip. That makes a lot of sense. Given that everything is beginning to move to cloud, that's probably here to stay. 

      My brother-in-law works for Microsoft so I would like to think that before I were to try any vendor-specific certs that I could network with a few of his guys and that help me land a job. He also knows several guys who work at Dell so that might be another option. I'm also planning to hit up some job fairs after I get A+ to help make a few other connections in case I don't get any leads otherwise.

      If nothing else, I guess I can always fall back on my business degree to keep having an extremely middle-class life, lol. But I'll definitely look into cloud. Again, thank you for the tip.

    4. CypherHoof

      CypherHoof

      Microsoft would be a good call.

      Cisco's VoIP is fighting a losing battle against the dominance of TEAMS as a fully integrated chat/webconferencing/telephony solution.

      Microsoft's cloud, while a poor second to Amazon's, has some major advantages in a cloud-first scenario.

      First it fully integrates into the O365 environment, allowing single signon to a wide range of Azure, Office and third party solutions via the Azure AD IdPs

      Second, it is a one-stop-shop for certification - you can get MS certs in a wide range of areas, Cloud (and cloud security), databases, email and more. They are the dominant provider of pretty much everything in the IT industry, and you can leverage certs in one area to move laterally into others.

      And thirdly, for the same reason - if you are joining a company, odds are good they are already Microsoft-first in their existing solutions; greenfield roles are rare, and usually a solid understanding of MS technologies will be a prereq for either cloud or on-premises roles.

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    501698 I keep coming back to this vid for some reason.
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    530694 They say it's gonna be -2C in my area on Tuesday. It's +30C right now, according to my weather station. They're already saying it's gonna drop to about 5C just tonight. I welcome it. I'm sick of the summer heat.
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    501690 Those Finnish dudes are pretty crazy tho
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    501683 Or 30 hours of level grinding.
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    Anyone else ever check out Slow Burn? I'm on the second season, which is about the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the cover-up, and the following impeachment of the president. It's incredibly interesting stuff. First season was about Watergate and was equally interesting.
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    I've been playing Cities: Skylines almost daily since 2015 lmao
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    Beach Life-In-Death by Car Seat Headrest. This song is so magical. The part beginning at 6:53 always hits me deep. @Kadae I love how your second most played song is Epic Sax Guy. Beautiful.
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    501620 Worst. Hideout. Ever.
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    501618 Sup, Rising? Been on and off of here for nearly six years (obviously non-consecutively lmao) and I gotta say, I'm still impressed with your dedication to this thread.
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    501615 Can confirm. I built my PC in 2014.
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    But, like, bruh, are you alive?

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    501606 Ay yo chill with that Too much excitement and I might short circuit, jump some sparks, and light up this oil I'm leaking everywhere.
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    Custom built in 2014. i5 4690K @ 4.6 GHz on Z97, 12 GB of DDR3 @ 1333, dual R9 290s. Sweet rig in the day. Nothing much these days. I really have like no upgrade path. But whatcha gonna do? I do a lot of cooking at home these days, can't think of EVOO without thinking extra virgin olive oil lmao
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    501603 beep beep
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