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How do *YOU* train/keep up your skills?

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by tomsal 1 view

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As my fellow IT industry peers I'm extremely curious in knowing what methods everyone uses to keep their knowledge/education/skills up to the challenge of our ever changing industry -- especially now with the lackluster job market in our field.

One thing that I guess makes me well suited for this field -- I actually *ENJOY* learning. I am starting a 8 week course from a Cisco authorized training partner soon (October), on top of that I am also considering self-paced learning from globalknowledge, and on top of THAT...I muck around with my home network and tons of books I have.

I just wonder how other IT folks keep up to date. We always here about the skills we each have...I'm curious on how folks got (or keep) those skills.

-Tom

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by black panther

Unfortunately the School of Hard Knocks --

For Unix - Power Outages, crashes etc make you learn pretty quick

For Windows PC Repair - users bring in their home computer -- what a nightmare!!!

by guruofdos

And boy, I've made a few!!

I always try to learn by 'doing' and if I can get paid for 'doing' unto someone elses computer, so much the better! Every now and again, a problem crops up that has me stumped, so I do a little trawling round the net or set up a 'test bed' computer to emulate the problem or try solutions on.

There is an old saying...nothing new under the sun. Chances are, someone somewhere has encountered the same or a similar problem and had found a solution. Failing that, dogged determination and perseverence work well for me, and if I can learn something new every day, then I count that as a plus!

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