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05-22-2007

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Career Path/Change - Cert Help

This is a very serious post. I am a Cell Technician (Cellular Base Station Tech) who is completely bored because my job has basically evolved into a Field Secretary position. I love working on T1's and troubleshooting equipment outages and so on and so forth but my job has become VERY administrative. I love computer/configuration work and troubleshooting.

I am at a point in my life where if I am going to make a change (and I NEED to) it needs to happen very soon! Here is my dilemma:

I have taken MANY career aptitude tests and they always point to Technology and Food.

I spent 5 years in the Marine Corps as an Avionics Technician and the last 7 years in the Wireless/Telecom industry. I am good at what I do but I want more.

I have been cooking since I was 9 and I am now 30...I have a lot of unprofessional food experience. Cooking is one of my passions.

I have also been into computers since I was 10 and everyone I meet says I am a natural. I kick ass on anything in my current position involving computers or CLI. It is my thing!

Cooking doesn't pay unless you know a guy!

IT does!

I am trying to get into something I love to do instead of what pays the bills.

What would be the best path for me to crossover from what I do now to a job in the IT industry (especially VoIP or UNIX)?

Are there any quick certs I can get now (with my GI Bill) that I can use to make about 55k/per year or more with my experience and the new certs? Is there a possibility of making more with my experience and suggested certs?

I would like to make this transition in a years time so quick certs are key!

I have worked on Sun Solaris Workstations and CLI while I worked on Nortel Cell Sites so I am semi-familiar with UNIX.

I have experience with the following (which may or may not help):

Field Experience:

- T1/T3 Testing, Troubleshooting and Installation
- TCP/IP
- CLI
- UNIX CLI
- Lucent CLI
- Electronic Troubleshooting
- Lucent Routers
- Xng
- Remedy
- Help Desk

Wireless/Telecomm Certs:

Lucent BTS
Nortel BTS
Nokia BTS
Carrier Access MUX
Anritsu Cell Master
T-Berd Test Sets (T1/T3)
Harris Microwave Radios
Alcatel Microwave Radios

ANy help at all in this area would be MUCH appreciated. Thanks so much!!

CoopDeVille

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GLOBUS-JOB-CLEAN(1)						  GRAM5 Commands					       GLOBUS-JOB-CLEAN(1)

NAME

       globus-job-clean - Cancel and clean up a GRAM batch job

SYNOPSIS

       globus-job-clean [-r RESOURCE | -resource RESOURCE]
			[-f | -force] [-q | -quiet] JOBID

       globus-job-clean [-help] [-usage] [-version] [-versions]

DESCRIPTION

       The globus-job-clean program cancels the job named by JOBID if it is still running, and then removes any cached files on the GRAM service
       node related to that job. In order to do the file clean up, it submits a job which removes the cache files. By default this cleanup job is
       submitted to the default GRAM resource running on the same host as the job. This behavior can be controlled by specifying a resource
       manager contact string as the parameter to the -r or -resource option.

       By default, globus-job-clean prompts the user prior to canceling the job. This behavior can be overridden by specifying the -f or -force
       command-line options.

OPTIONS

       The full set of options to globus-job-clean are:

       -help, -usage
	   Display a help message to standard error and exit.

       -version
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-clean program to standard output.

       -version
	   Display the software version of the globus-job-clean program including DiRT information to standard output.

       -resource RESOURCE, -r RESOURCE
	   Submit the clean-up job to the resource named by RESOURCE instead of the default GRAM service on the same host as the job contact.

       -force, -f
	   Do not prompt to confirm job cancel and clean-up.

       -quiet, -q
	   Do not print diagnostics for succesful clean-up. Implies -f

ENVIRONMENT

       If the following variables affect the execution of globus-job-clean.

       X509_USER_PROXY
	   Path to proxy credential.

       X509_CERT_DIR
	   Path to trusted certificate directory.

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