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I'd like this forums advice regarding the two current job opportunities I have:
Network Engineer Internship: 17 an HR with benefits. 3-4 months. Recruiter says I have a 25-50% chance of a full time offer if they have a spot available and if I perform well!
IT Support Engineer: Full Time, no benefits. 21 an hour. Basically another helpdesk job, Id accept it if there were benefits, but there arent any, so theres that.
Honestly, I feel that the Network Engineer internship is gonna look much better on the resume. I'll get the touch real equipment! And something tells me if I do well performance wise I can move up and stay permanently. But I'd like advice from other people who've been there. (Obviously, If a fulltime job with benefits pulls through, Ill take that ideally, but I'm playing the cards I've been dealt here.)
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.
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