bendsley

r3d: an A+ cert. really won't get you very far. I can pass that test with both eyes closed, hands behind back, dick in the wind. It's just not really a cert companies look for. For that matter, an MCSA/MCSE won't get you very far either. A friend of mine went the MS cert direction and I took the Cisco. He is still currently looking for a good job, currently working at Best Buy as a service tech at the moment. Imagine that, a service tech with an MCSE. He knows so much more than they do and they're absolutely clueless about it.

However, certs from Cisco will help you quite a bit once you get past the CCNA. I received my CCNP a few months ago and had many calls from companies wanting me to work for them. CCIE is your meal-ticket though. Get one of those and you can go pretty much anywhere you want in the IT industry.

__________________
"You hear the one about the fella who died, went to the pearly gates? St. Peter let him in. Sees a guy in a suit making a closing argument. Says, "Who's that?" St. Peter says, "Oh, that's God. Thinks he's Denny Crane."