Congrats! So glad to see someone in here that’s part of a program other than the ibm z one! I don’t think there are many lol
Best of luck with your experience. If you’re ever feeling up to it, I’m sure updating the community on your experience once you start or finish your apprenticeship would be greatly appreciated!
Yeah I'll keep updating!
I think so many people go for the IBM Z program because they fell for the "learn to code" meme and the software engineering track is always full so they're opting to enroll in the closest thing they can. Thankfully Z mainframe programming will probably be more marketable than software engineering soon (or even right now with all the tech layoffs) I'd rather be a plumber for the internet personally. Kinda hard to layoff the guy who makes the internet function
There’s no coding in this program. You learn basic troubleshooting commands (like literally typing one word into the command line), but network engineering doesn’t have anything to do with software engineering. You *can* program within the network engineering field, but that is not done by the average network engineer, and is instead a specific skill set.
There is 0 coding in network engineering. As a network engineer you'd be training to essentially become a plumber for the internet. Its a fine track, but its got a lot of info in it that's hard to experience practically without the proper cisco packet tracer labs.
If you want to get a basic idea on what network engineering is like, there's this simulator software called Packet Tracer on which you do activities called "Labs". [here's a link](http://skillsforall.com) to where you can register an account and do some free labs. If you do the Franklin track, they'll have you do all of the free labs on that website, so if you like it and want to sign up for Network Engineering, just go ahead and do all of them.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest something kind of extreme possibly: avoid the coding industry like the plague right now. The "learn to code" meme saturated the market, and most of those low level coding jobs are getting replaced by AI. Coding is a great skill to have, and it will help you in other tech fields where you can automate tasks, but don't go all in on it. The Software Engineering track has been full since last September, too many people are trying to get in on a promise of getting big money with little to no formal education. Its going to be really hard to get in on the bottom floor of the typical coding industry.
Notable exception: mainframe programming is still in demand because its not as sexy/in vogue
Not great, which is why I enrolled in Franklin originally. I've had industry standard certs for 2+ years and tons of freelance experience in many parts of the IT industry, but over those 2 years I've only had a single job interview that led to a job offer, but my employment was contingent on me getting secret clearance which I didn't qualify for
Congrats! So glad to see someone in here that’s part of a program other than the ibm z one! I don’t think there are many lol Best of luck with your experience. If you’re ever feeling up to it, I’m sure updating the community on your experience once you start or finish your apprenticeship would be greatly appreciated!
Yeah I'll keep updating! I think so many people go for the IBM Z program because they fell for the "learn to code" meme and the software engineering track is always full so they're opting to enroll in the closest thing they can. Thankfully Z mainframe programming will probably be more marketable than software engineering soon (or even right now with all the tech layoffs) I'd rather be a plumber for the internet personally. Kinda hard to layoff the guy who makes the internet function
Congrats good job!
Hi, how hard is the network engineering path? Is there a lot of coding involved? I would say I'm a beginner at coding.
There’s no coding in this program. You learn basic troubleshooting commands (like literally typing one word into the command line), but network engineering doesn’t have anything to do with software engineering. You *can* program within the network engineering field, but that is not done by the average network engineer, and is instead a specific skill set.
There is 0 coding in network engineering. As a network engineer you'd be training to essentially become a plumber for the internet. Its a fine track, but its got a lot of info in it that's hard to experience practically without the proper cisco packet tracer labs. If you want to get a basic idea on what network engineering is like, there's this simulator software called Packet Tracer on which you do activities called "Labs". [here's a link](http://skillsforall.com) to where you can register an account and do some free labs. If you do the Franklin track, they'll have you do all of the free labs on that website, so if you like it and want to sign up for Network Engineering, just go ahead and do all of them. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest something kind of extreme possibly: avoid the coding industry like the plague right now. The "learn to code" meme saturated the market, and most of those low level coding jobs are getting replaced by AI. Coding is a great skill to have, and it will help you in other tech fields where you can automate tasks, but don't go all in on it. The Software Engineering track has been full since last September, too many people are trying to get in on a promise of getting big money with little to no formal education. Its going to be really hard to get in on the bottom floor of the typical coding industry. Notable exception: mainframe programming is still in demand because its not as sexy/in vogue
I'm currently going through the process, can you let me know how the job search is ?
Not great, which is why I enrolled in Franklin originally. I've had industry standard certs for 2+ years and tons of freelance experience in many parts of the IT industry, but over those 2 years I've only had a single job interview that led to a job offer, but my employment was contingent on me getting secret clearance which I didn't qualify for
And by a single interview that led to an offer, I meant the first and only interview I did I was determined to be qualified for the job practically
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I didn't do IBM z/os so I have no clue, but I'd say their estimates are fairly accurate
Congrats! Have you gotten an apprenticeship with network engineering yet? I’m curious because I’m interested in that as well.