Well, stepped into High school, and taking summer school to get some courses outa my way for a foreign language. We planned out what courses we need to take in order to follow the path to what we want to be, I guess you could say. I took that test that output options of jobs I could be, I am a business man....lol. But anyway I looked into a Network specialists (network administrator, IT guy...) Learned quite a bit out of that occupation. Seems like a pretty interesting job, considering how I love working with Networking and stuff in my house, toying around in Linux and Windows OS's, and installing hardware and messing around with my beloved machine. Found that when this job is in demand, the average pay can be to $4000-$6,500 a month, with exception of a few pro careers flying around from $10,000- $17,000 a month.
My question is this:
Any IT people that do this for a career can give me a few hints, pointers (classes to take to help me out) and such?
Anyone know if Network administrators and IT jobs in general are in demand (or specifically, in California)
If anyone could lay me down some more info, it would help me out a lot. I do Have a basic understanding of Unix's OS's, I run Linux at home on all kinds of different distro's and gui's (hacked my playstation to run an old Fedora core with KDE 1.x
) I'm really comfortable in windows, can edit stuff from registry's, toy around in it and such.
Would having an understanding of these open source operating systems maybe help me when applying for a career in this catagory?
Thanks for taking the time of reading this, and helping me if possible