Dear all,
I graduated college with a bachelors in psychology this past May but after Interning at various places I decided Psychology wasn’t for me. While working on my bachelors, for three summers I interned at Swiss Re (reinsurance company). One summer I interned in the accounting department and then the following two summers I interned in the IT department. Directly after graduating I interned in the IS department at Save the Children for a few months but was fortunate enough to get a job offer at Swiss Re working as a consultant at the company in Desktop Support. I have currently held that position for about 8 months now. About two months ago I began a course to prepare me for the CCNA exam. This course is supposed to go until October, 2009 at which point I will take the CCNA exam and hopefully pass it.
I am lucky enough I think to have gotten my foot in the door especially because of my lack of formal education in the field but I do have years of experience behind me (most likely the reason I was asked to come back as a full time employee). I am very interested in the subject matter and disciplined and ready to learn as much as I can so that’s not what concerns me. My reason for posting is to see what advice people may have for an entry level person like myself in terms of what my next steps could/should be, what degrees/certifications I should be looking at (beyond CCNA) and basically any words of wisdom professionals like yourselves may have for a person like me…
Any advice on graduate programs because getting my masters is something that I really want to do. I’m curious as to what schools and programs one might suggest.
Just to give you guys an idea of what’s in my head…my plan as of now is to get into networking (hence the CCNA prep) and eventually get into Network Security/IT Management.
Thank you in advance for your time!
Regards,
Christian