Sean Thompson moved into Network Field Engineer

I have been stuck in dead-end jobs for 20 years and had tried numerous times to get a role in IT. I kept getting knocked back due to a lack of experience. While the cost of the traineeship was off-putting at first I decided that with the job placement money-back guarantee the cost was largely negated as if on conclusion of the traineeship I was unsuccessful in gaining a career in IT I would have lost nothing.

The most enjoyable part if the traineeship for me was probably the practice labs (when they were working without any hitches) for A+ certification, as I enjoy being more hands-on. The video training could be rather dry in places making them difficult to keep watching at times.

My current role as a field network engineer mainly consists of mounting and installing Cisco Meraki devices. It is good fun but some of the work can be very hard with quite a bit of time spent up ladders either mounting access points or patching in new network hardware in cabinets that can sometimes be quite high on walls.