Sorry for the late reply I had a busy week.I'm a network engineer with a growing electronic health care software vendor.
Currently my daily life is about 50% project work and 50% operations/tshoot. A lot of Cisco Nexus (data center), ASR (router), ASA (firewalls), ACI (SDN) as well as F5 work. We also deploy a lot of Meraki devices. Typically just providing connectivity into our cloud application whether it be dedicated MPLS circuits, VPN connectivity, building out new hosted environments or helping a client with their own network performance problems that impact our application. I've been trying to find a role that blends wireless, voice and security.
What do you like to do or what interests you?
Depends on if you're an installation monkey or not. It's not all installing stuff all day every day.Sorry for the late reply I had a busy week.
I mostly like hands on work, what interested me about network technicians was (According to my school website and my advisor) is that they arnt in front of a computer typing all day like programmers, from what I was told they go and install switches, routers, and install cable. Is any of this true for a network tech?
Depends on the network tech. Some orgs will be very hands on, some orgs will be very remote. My role has me racking crap in the DC on a vague occasion (maybe once every 6 months), shipping out client routers (maybe once every 2-3 months) or Meraki devices (1-2/week). Otherwise I don't touch any equipment.Is any of this true for a network tech?