Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist

Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by kazinator on Monday March 11, 2019 @04:35PM (#19362559)

This is obviously some command to run on a Cisco router. A CCNA certification is squarely about knowing networking from a Cisco equipment point of view. So this would be like some "Unix certified engineer" not knowing "ps" or "netstat", right?

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Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by phil21 on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:19PM (#19362923)

Probably more like a "Unix engineer" not knowing "cat"

"show run" (aka sh run) is about the first command anyone commits to muscle memory on a Cisco - if they have done absolutely any real work with them whatsoever.

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Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by ben509 on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:04PM (#19362814)

It is, I have a grand total of a few hours experience with Cisco routers, and even I recognize it.

But doing my degree, I knew several people who hung out at the computer lab and relentlessly pestered people to do their work for them. And now people routinely pay for school essays.

I'm pretty sure there are a large number of people who invest enough effort into cheating that they could have learned the material.

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Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by kazinator on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:33PM (#19363046)

Okay, but you'd think first rule of a CCNA cheater should be "know enough real material to at least fake it through interviews: like 'show run'".

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Re:Why I Quit Tech and Became a Therapist by ben509 on Monday March 11, 2019 @05:05PM (#19362825)

(Small detail: A lot of admin shells have auto-abbreviation of commands; it works because their command syntax is largely fixed.)

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