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Your Information Technology Career: Beware The Comfort Zone

Your Information Technology Career: Beware The Comfort Zone LAN - WAN engineers, network administrators, and other IT personnel must be continually learning more or risk their careers. Learn how to secure your career! I've seen it happen time and again to programmers, network engineers and administrators, and other IT personnel. They get a solid IT position, a good-paying job, and they get comfortable. They stop keeping up with the latest technologies, they stop studying, they no longer keep their CCNA, MCSE, and other industry certifications up-to-date.... and then one day, their comfortable job is gone. Maybe they get laid off, maybe the company moves and they don't want to move with it... but for one reason or another, they're in the worst position possible. They have no job, and they have allowed their IT skills to deteriorate to the point where they are no longer employable. If you're in IT, you must be constantly learning. You must continually take the long