I.T professionals: need advice lang...

**vilaern** · September 30th, 2005 11:49 AM

Hey I.T professionals!

just like to know your opinion with my inquiry......i'm not a graduate of IT course but i'm currently working in an IT company. I just like to ask your advice if i'm going to pursue a course or short courses in IT, where do i begin? i have been fascinated with IT products since i started to work in my office. we have been using UNIX and Citrix for our revenue accounting. Considering a kindergarden student in IT like me, What is UNIX and Citrix? i mean, If i'm going to continue to pursue these products, where do i begin? where can i study these products, what school? is it easy to study IT courses with little knowledge of it?

sometimes, i wish i should have studied an IT course during college if i only knew i can excel in this kind of field. but it's okey, i'll just study somehow and be proficient with such knowledge in IT. My company doesnt give me any training about this. Just had 2 months training about thier revenue accounting product to get employed. luckily, i passed and been using citrix and unix for our work.

mods, if i'm not in the correct forum, you can move it into the designated forum...

thanks again! just having some thoughts about this...just like to know some opinions....hehe

**rayana** · September 30th, 2005 12:24 PM

depends on you career path...ano ba gusto mong gawin? or ano ba gusto mo maging trabaho???

**1D4LV** · September 30th, 2005 02:04 PM

Originally Posted by rayana

depends on you career path...ano ba gusto mong gawin? or ano ba gusto mo maging trabaho???

same advice too bro.
goodluck.

**nmtin** · September 30th, 2005 12:57 PM

I've seen some courses for Linux Administration and this is close to what you want to achieve. I think Citrix is another Linux Flavor, with built in servers. Check out tipidpc.com, that's were I saw the classes being advertised.

If you want to learn. Create a linux partition on your desktop pc (i suggest mandriva, fedora or ubuntu), then get everything to work (all the devices). when all is well delete your windows partition and you'll be forced to learn linux. From shell scripting to installation.

Being a recent grad, I see a lot of web development using j2ee and asp.net. But being an exceptional admin for linux is hard to find. If ever you become an expert with linux administration, I am sure jobs will easily come your way.

**ILuvDetailing** · September 30th, 2005 01:17 PM

If you want a crash course there's always the internet, the great thing about UNIX/Linux is that its open source and you'll find lots of resources out there. Search google and do some reading it will be worth your time.

**vilaern** · September 30th, 2005 01:53 PM

thanks for your opinions guys. it helps a lot. question lang, what if i want to start from the beginning, where should i concentrate?

**artpogi** · September 30th, 2005 03:07 PM

Originally Posted by vilaern

thanks for your opinions guys. it helps a lot. question lang, what if i want to start from the beginning, where should i concentrate?

If you're really interested in Unix, I suggest you start by reading a book on Unix basics. Although there are a lot of Unix variants, their foundation or basics are pretty much the same.

Once you have a complete grasp of how Unix works and starts to understand the structure of a Unix system, you can now move on to more advance areas of Unix like networking or writing scripts or system administration for Unix systems or whatever you want.

Unix is a very powerful and stable OS, I am a Unix convert for about 7 years now and I'm still fascinated by it.

HTH

**nmtin** · September 30th, 2005 02:03 PM

I started out programming ... then rbanching to scripting, algorithms, database, basic networking and now im wowrking im learning administration. But this is because I was in school. I had the luxury of time to learn all these. It might be diffent in your case

**ian_rex** · September 30th, 2005 02:27 PM

i'm not sure where to begin. but fortunately, lahat sila tama. i, like the threadstarter, was having qualms on career path. lucky for me, because i'm a graduate of IT course. recently, i'm about got the job i wanted- database administrator. but i started as a lowly office clerk in a company.

consider this: pursue what you think you will excel. you'll go places.

**delprado** · September 30th, 2005 02:44 PM

Since nasa IT ka na rin ngayon at meron ka na rin namang degree, I would recommend you to get a masteral degree (ie. MS in Computer Science) that is related to IT.