Two months since last post, alot has been going on. Within a week of moving to Garner I received a job at a company that acted as middle men for AT&T Cellular tower installations, it was really quite neat but the job was basically data entry and run by people (very very nice people who I enjoyed working with) who had never done data entry so they had no idea what to expect us to do. I would have most likely stuck it out for much longer but my first week their another company called me up to see if I was still interested in a technical support role which is what I really want to do for the rest of my life.
Long story short I got the second job and quit the first, I am now a happily employed Technical Support Engineer with an independent software company and I love it. With this rejuvenated passion for working in the IT field I now want to begin studying for the Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) and the Red Hat Enterprise Certified Administrator, just not sure which one to go with first, I am leaning towards Red Hat.
Editor's note, August 24, 2026: I never studied for or earned the CCNA, and I have no desire to pursue it today. I later achieved my dream of working for Red Hat and became a Red Hat Certified System Administrator, Red Hat Certified Engineer, and Red Hat Certified Architect. The architect credential required my engineering certification plus five additional Red Hat certifications. Verify my Red Hat certifications →