Please stop pushing the #cybersecurity fantasy narrative to Newbs. You CAN NOT learn enough networking IN ONE MONTH to sufficientlly protect networks from attack. kthxbye
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- If anyone here looks up to me and what I have achieved in my career, you should know that I completely rebooted my personal & professional life at 33 and started from zero. I had nothing. First tech job was pulling wires on a telco central office frame for $10/hr. Never give up!!
- My wife’s employer, who hired her as a remote worker, just announced to their employees that moving forward, remote workers will not be promoted. This is what shitty company culture looks like folks.
- My window is taped onto the fuselage. Everything is fine.
- Holy crap!!! I just "wrote" my first #python script to connect to a router, run a show version command and print the results, AND IT WORKED! This is huge for me. Historically, I gave up way earlier in the process. Shout out to all those patient souls who helped me along the way.
- Asked someone about putting expired certs on my resume and they responded “university degrees don’t expire.” Funny how everything we learn from networking certifications is deemed expired/irrelevant every 3 years, but my bachelor’s degree from 20 years ago remains “current.”
- Anyone else still do this when they subnet? I’ve never been able to do it in my head.
- I’m happy to announce that I joined @mbushong’s team at @JuniperNetworks as a Product Manager on their Cloud Ready Data Center team! I'm very grateful and super excited for this opportunity!
- Fake news. If you are trying to break into networking, know that this view is patently false and hot garbage. I found the CCNA incredibly difficult, as do most of the CCIEs I know and I helped manage and maintain two of the largest, most complex global networks that exist.
- Can one of my cyber friends explain to me the threat to US national security posed by TikTok? My limited understanding is the US has been engaged in mass, warrantless surveillance of Americans' communications for decades. Our own gov can spy on us without cause, but China can't?
- The recent outpouring of support in our community for #womenintech has inspired me to do my part. I’m giving away a physical networking home lab to a woman in need of one. 4 routers and 3 switches.
- After an amazing two years at Juniper Networks, I was impacted by a large layoff due to a corporate reorganization. I am grateful for the professional growth I experienced, as well as for the brilliant folks I worked with.
- Yesterday, my dad had to tell my step mom that there’s nothing else the doctors can do and it’s time to go home and start hospice care. We’re taking our little kids over this weekend to say goodbye. I’m intermittently doing ok/in a mental fog. Grief is hard.
