What knowledge and qualifications......

mrbios

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Does it take to be a network consultant? (one that is half decent ;))

This is my ultimate goal in IT, for someone of 21 I feel I have a decent amount of knowledge though obviously not enough and I want to learn more

In the near future I'm going to be doing an MCSA or MCSE funded by my work, what other qualifications would you suggest I looked into in the near future?

I'm sick of working with end-users and cannot wait to move up in the world, trying as hard as possible to get all the knowledge ill need to move up not only for job enjoyability (I love the work I do, I HATE the people I work with and for) but also for money purposes as well
 
At the moment my "end-user" is the worst kind of end-user (I hope) .... kids, please tell me it gets better :( :p

Thanks for all the replies, networking is my primary interest and it's what I have been building on for the past 2-3 years which is why im looking to advance myself in those areas to one day get a nice job I hopefully enjoy
 
ricky1981 said:
Best advice I can give is to focus on one area sooner rather than later, having a broad knowledge is all well and good but the real money is in knowing one area better than anyone else (or at least 99.99% of people).
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The problem i have there is i have no idea what to go for, I don't know what area of networking it is i enjoy most i just love doing more and more complicated things over a large area

Any you can recommend? I don't really like security that much, and backup solutions don't really interest me, but anything else switch and server related i really enjoy
 
Ok cheers for all that :)

Another path i might decide to take up is systems analyst, I've looked at the few details of what a systems analyst does on day to day stuff and it plays on some of my interests so any recommenations for qualifications in that department?
 
Wether consultant is overused or not, the higher scale of "consultant" is where i aim to be one day, so in the context i have used it in the OP it fits the bill for what i want :)
 
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