What field to major in?

pbowman · 09-16-2009, 05:29 PM

Hello,

I am starting school in January in the IT field. I am trying to narrow down my choices and have come up with the following 3:

Network Administrator
Information Security
Web Design

All of them interest me but can only choose one right now, so I am leaning towards Network Administrator, (been trying to research which one's have the most opportunities).

But not for sure which path to choose, Cisco or Microsoft. What is the standard for the industry?

Thank you

hardware01 · 09-17-2009, 07:13 PM

Smaller companies are going to want you to be good at web design, security, Windows admin and familiar with Cisco routers :)

Larger companies might not require you to be an expert in everything. In the company I work at they have a lot of people that do very specific tasks and you don't get to learn much outside of that. You do become very good at your task though! If you want support for a web page, which web page, you send ticket to that group. Help with email, send ticket to this group. Want to order battery, send ticket to another group. Firewall rule, another group. Software, which software, this group. Wireless access point, another group. It goes on and on.

09-16-2009, 05:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
pbowman Registered User Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 122 OS: WinXP	What field to major in? Hello, I am starting school in January in the IT field. I am trying to narrow down my choices and have come up with the following 3: Network Administrator Information Security Web Design All of them interest me but can only choose one right now, so I am leaning towards Network Administrator, (been trying to research which one's have the most opportunities). But not for sure which path to choose, Cisco or Microsoft. What is the standard for the industry? Thank you

09-17-2009, 07:13 PM	#2 (permalink)
hardware01 Registered User Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 25 OS: XP Pro	Re: What field to major in? Smaller companies are going to want you to be good at web design, security, Windows admin and familiar with Cisco routers :) Larger companies might not require you to be an expert in everything. In the company I work at they have a lot of people that do very specific tasks and you don't get to learn much outside of that. You do become very good at your task though! If you want support for a web page, which web page, you send ticket to that group. Help with email, send ticket to this group. Want to order battery, send ticket to another group. Firewall rule, another group. Software, which software, this group. Wireless access point, another group. It goes on and on. Last edited by hardware01; 09-17-2009 at 07:16 PM.