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Small-Scale Question Sunday for April 26, 2026

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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I'll caution that, without further detail, Network Engineer Intern is probably a lot of Cat5E pulling and crimping, and a lot less fighting with Cisco IOS, than it would sound like from the job description. That's better and more experience than it sounds - the difference between implementing spanning-tree on a lab environment and troubleshooting it on some wild unmanaged switches is night-and-day - but it can feel a little hazing-like from the inside view, and you'll want to keep up your more specialized skills.