Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
I have found that there are two approaches to continuing IT career growth: Growing Organically (aka Pyramid Skills) or what I like to call “Going for the Jugular” (aka Needle Skills.) Both are viable methods for advancing your career and working deeper into the field. Growing Organically means accumulating a broad base of knowledge covering …
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To illustrate through some of my own experiences I wanted to talk about the network that I built at home in the late 1990s. When I was building my own home network it was very uncommon for people to have networks at home and “home networking equipment” was not yet available so I was working …
Most professions have few elements that you can bring home. The more technical the field generally the less you can take home. But IT is one of those really cool fields where there is almost nothing that you can do in the office that you can’t do at home as well. This is good and …
IT differs from many professions in the way that employment is handled. This is caused by many factors on both the employer and the employee side. In most careers and certainly in most jobs people work under the “employment” system. Here in the US this can be called W-2 employment because the tax form involved …
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Much like interning volunteering can be a great way to get experience in IT both early on in your career when you are having problems getting those first few jobs as well as later on when you are well established and what to be able to demonstrate breadth and community but in this article we …