[AusNOG] Noc noc! Any tips on getting a foot into this door? (Or any other door?)

[Rory Jones]

Hi guys,

I hope you all had a great Christmas and are primed to have ring in the new year just well.

I could be here all day positing if how, if I did things differently, I could have changed the outcome of this year quite dramatically. However, all I’ll say in the matter, is that I want to start 2018 off with a clean slate. It’s really all I can do at this point, which leads me into my question.

While a NOC or DC engineer, along with being a train driver, of all things, are among my dream jobs, I certainly don’t expect to just be handed one next month. I don’t think this precludes me from asking, though.

I don’t know why, but whenever I see a photo of a NOC/GOC, or a train control centre, for that matter, it is a near orgasmic moment for me - I love them that much. It may be a classic case of the old rose tinted glasses, or all that glitters is not gold, but frankly, that does not really worry me. There’s just something about stats I love. Being able to see, ok, so 3 days ago, this program was using 100% CPU time and we can see why, the computer was moving a ton of data st that time, as an example.

I don’t know if there’s a job for it, but I am absolutely enthralled with stats, my daily driver, a MacBook Pro, it’s like iStat Menus was written specifically for me! Now I don’t know if this is basically what a NOC is, a sort of giant stats monitoring office. But either way, they are jaw dropping to me.


As one can probably tell by reading one of my, surely nearly infamous by now, diatribes, I want in. If my current training and experience levels put this out of the question, then I would love some recommendations on how/where I can start working towards this as a goal, be it firing up my dusty old CCNA lab again, or maybe applying for more entry-level, frontline helpdesk jobs in a telco or other large networking company of the sorts.

Honestly I’m at the stage right now where any job anywhere in IT would be a near dream job right now. I’m far from a day labourer but I can put in a mean shift at a keyboard! Right now all I want is a job I can do, or a job that suits me, so I can grow and fit any mould any employer could care to shape me to.

As for my resume. Well, there is one. Quite a lot of acronyms on it, but that’s about it. Most of my study has been done off my own back at home, though the CCNA requires very little more than touching base and sitting the tests for the qualification. The resume in its current state, is a joke, I will be having it professionally rewritten soon enough, though.

But just in case anyone would like to make any suggestions, it will be attached. Please don’t go too hard, though! So I don’t clog up the tubes, if I can, most of my replies will be off-list.

Kind regards,
Rory
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