I managed to BS my way into landing a job as a network admin/network IT person at a major business near my city...

I managed to BS my way into landing a job as a network admin/network IT person at a major business near my city, with only some basic certifications. Starting salary is 175k a year and I don't shit shit. I start tomorrow.

How fucked am I?

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know shit*

You picked the easiest job, congrats user. Google every problem and you'll be good to go

google is your job, congrats
this fucker gets it
your job is to literally google things because the fuckers who hired you are too stupid to know who knows what they are talking about and who doesn't
don't fuck up and you're set (run big decisions by a managerial type and get their approval in writing to cya)

what certifications? asking for a friend

>basic certifications
>175k a year
is OP LARPing or is IT really that overpaid?

What were your certs and did they do any technical interview questions? jealous as fuck desu

in big cities it can be, but half of your pay is taxed and rent is high as fuck

test

Who was in the wrong here?

did it work?

>I don't shit shit.

What did he mean by this?

no

What certification do you have OP I'm curious?
>175k
Sounds like LARP. Network Admins don't get paid that much for configuring shitty Cisco Routers and Switches.

god i wish that were me

Not OP but getting there. After two rounds of interviews and code tests I have a last round on site for a job that requires MS or more and I am a dropout.

I did not bullshit, all is real, it's just not that I am a superhuman, that's it.

We'll see once the network goes down.

>a job that requires MS
it clearly doesn't if they're considering you.

Yeah, the whole recruiting process is a mess.

>I managed to BS my way into landing a job

probably talked himself up REAL good at the interview, a vital skill especially if you have old/technologically inept people hiring you. Also it's probably 175k with all benefits and stuff in total.

yep

It did thanks for asking

>175K
Do you live in Manhattan or San Francisco? That's like "I'm 50 years old and at the peak of my career" earnings for an IT professional in Ohio.

>farmworld

This.

It's still good money, but when a footlong at Subway's 13 bucks and a one bedroom apartment with a shared kitchenette is 5,000 a month if you wanna live within 20 minutes of your workplace, 175k lasts far less long then one would otherwise expect.

How's IT in general anyway, and would it be possible to switch in my mid 20s? My current field is stressful to the point of not being worth the money and have been considering bailing to IT for a while

Hopefully those certs will save you. If not, you're fucked. Good luck. Don't listen to the devs here. In my experiences most of them don't even know how to install basic software on their machines. They can't even wipe their asses without the systems team.

You're on call 24/7, everyone treats you as less intelligent than devs, one mistake and you're fired and your company ends up on the news for getting breached, and devs require you to hold their hands for literally everything.

At that pay level he'd had to have a CCIE, or a very wealthy company with more money than sense

He shits something else than shit.

Like gold, or eggs, or something.

You're forever known as some beta tech support person within the business.
I don't mind because I like it when the qt girls get angry at me and berate me for when they have IT issues.

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It's just larping, unless you work in a large tech company AND are also a senior manager or managing director in charge of a large department of sysops and network admins.
Network admins usually just fix minor problems. It's the senior managers that fix large problems.

One company I know, sends engineers out to fix emergency problems where systems go down and they get called in. They have specialists for virtually every area of hardware and software problem, every type of server etc. They will charge £600 GBP PER HOUR ! however the company charges that and the employees get about £50 per hour, two people on every job £100 per hour for the two plus reasonable expenses. Bear in mind that is only when they are on call out. When not on call out and they are remoting a machine they get around £25 an hour

175k yen? 175k rupees?