Re:Advice to newbies... (Score 1)

I have a friend who is the same age and went into the IT industry almost 5 years ago and is now working for a small business ISP(not very small for much longer though) in Atlanta making 48k a year and is about to get seceral million in stock options when they IPO. I joined the navy a couple years before he went into the industry and I got out a year ago and have been in the IT industry for less than a year and I am making 30K a year and will have stock options in about a year with the same company. Neither one of us have a degree and the only formal traing I have is from the Navy in the medical field. The only telecom and computer related experience I have is from figuring out the network of the hospital that I was stationed at before our so-called government IT professionals could. I will probably be at about 35-40K in about a year.