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Alphabyte3:
Glassdoor and indeed has more jobs but 90% are abroad. In Nigeria the jobs are lesser.

Abroad jobs are very good for someone living in nigeria especially if its remote.

Working for any company in nigeria is like living in hell.

Kaczynski:
It means you need have xperience with building systems.

A kernel engineer can easily apply for voip roles. The bar is to high for normies to enter.
With my knowledge of Erlang i can apply for a voip role even though i know a little about voip.

The truth is that employers overseas are not just looking for anyone who can apply for roles involving VoIP; they have specific requirements that applicants must meet to have a chance of getting such a role.

Those training centres that provide short courses are not telling their trainees the truth: finding a job afterwards is almost impossible because only those who already have experience in Linux system administration, network engineering, or telecommunications, often gained through internships or work training, can acquire the level of experience that employers expect candidates to have.

Like this one, for a VoIP Telephone Engineer, the only one on indeed with the title VOIP Engineer:

Responsibilities

* Design, deploy, and support VoIP solutions to meet business needs.
* Maintain and optimize network infrastructure including routers, switches, and firewalls.
* Monitor network performance and troubleshoot issues proactively.
* Implement security measures such as VPNs, firewalls, and encryption protocols.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new technologies.
* Document network configurations and procedures.
* Ensure high availability and disaster recovery planning.
* Stay updated with industry trends to recommend improvements.
* Qualifications
* Proven experience with VoIP technologies and protocols.
* Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals including VPNs, firewalls, Cisco equipment, DNS, DHCP.
* Experience with Yeastar , Gamma , LG or other makes is required
* Call-To-Action

Experience:
Telephony: 3 years (required)

MindHacker9009:
The truth is that employers overseas are not just looking for anyone who can apply for roles involving VoIP; they have specific requirements that applicants must meet to have a chance of getting such a role.

Those training centres that provide short courses are not telling their trainees the truth: finding a job afterwards is almost impossible because only those who already have experience in Linux system administration, network engineering, or telecommunications, often gained through internships, can acquire the level of experience that employers expect candidates to have.

Like this one, for a VoIP Telephone Engineer, the only one on indeed with the title VOIP Engineer:

Responsibilities

* Design, deploy, and support VoIP solutions to meet business needs.
* Maintain and optimize network infrastructure including routers, switches, and firewalls.
* Monitor network performance and troubleshoot issues proactively.
* Implement security measures such as VPNs, firewalls, and encryption protocols.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate new technologies.
* Document network configurations and procedures.
* Ensure high availability and disaster recovery planning.
* Stay updated with industry trends to recommend improvements.
* Qualifications
* Proven experience with VoIP technologies and protocols.
* Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals including VPNs, firewalls, Cisco equipment, DNS, DHCP.
* Experience with Yeastar , Gamma , LG or other makes is required
* Call-To-Action

Experience:
Telephony: 3 years (required)

Most companies tend to exagerate on their job postings.

Thats why you need to show your projects or what you accomplished. Include that in resume, could be that PR you pushed to Asterisk.

Kaczynski:
Most companies tend to exagerate on their job postings.

Thats why you need to show your projects or what you accomplished. Include that in resume, could be that PR you pushed to Asterisk.

While personal projects and open-source PR you pushed only demonstrate passion, they are not treated as equivalent to real-world work experience. As a result, many trainees taking short training courses discover that completing a short tech course is only a small part of what employers expect and finding that first opportunity can be far more difficult than training providers suggest, as there are many tech graduates with internship experience from real organisations to choose from. Only a personal project that has real commercial clients will be considered by employers.

MindHacker9009:
While personal projects and open-source PR you pushed only demonstrate passion, they are not treated as equivalent to real-world work experience. As a result, many trainees taking short training courses discover that completing a short tech course is only a small part of what employers expect and finding that first opportunity can be far more difficult than training providers suggest, as there are many tech graduates with internship experience from real organisations to choose from. Only a personal project that has real commercial clients will be considered by employers.

Wrong

Take it from a person who have been in the game for a decade and seen the loopholes and crannies of the system.

Real world experience is what you done that benefitted that company or project. Could be rewriting the api docs for graphene os and making it accesible to normies.

It's more of show working than talk. Most companies hire based on workings ,it's only companies in nigeria that are obssesed with certs and degrees.

That's i prefer companies that are abroad, hiring is based on merit and pay is very good especially if you are living in nigeria.

Big man, Airsay.

We going fine here. How is it going over there?

Some months back, I completed the IVR task the other time on a Vultr paid host using Zoiper as soft extension. Not willing to spend any more money on further hardwares though, because it seems FreePBX server administrator is not really a skill that can get one a job anymore.

But it was an interesting learning experience for me.

airsaylongcome:
Did anyone by any chance, take this VoIP thing seriously? I’m looking for someone 100% reliable, absolutely capable of learning a lot of things on their own but able to ask the right questions when they run into problems. I am somewhat getting swamped.

Lexdino, how far? We fit collab?

Kaczynski:
Wrong

Take it from a person who have been in the game for a decade and seen the loopholes and crannies of the system.

Real world experience is what you done that benefitted that company or project. Could be rewriting the api docs for graphene os and making it accesible to normies.

It's more of show working than talk. Most companies hire based on workings ,it's only companies in nigeria that are obssesed with certs and degrees.

That's i prefer companies that are abroad, hiring is based on merit and pay is very good especially if you are living in nigeria.

But isn't remote jobs becoming harder for third worlders especially within this space.

emoboy4u:
But isn't remote jobs becoming harder for third worlders especially within this space.

No


You just to up your game and be damn good not choo choo.


Lessen the talk and show workings.

Kaczynski:
Wrong

Take it from a person who have been in the game for a decade and seen the loopholes and crannies of the system.

Real world experience is what you done that benefitted that company or project. Could be rewriting the api docs for graphene os and making it accesible to normies.

It's more of show working than talk. Most companies hire based on workings ,it's only companies in nigeria that are obssesed with certs and degrees.

That's i prefer companies that are abroad, hiring is based on merit and pay is very good especially if you are living in nigeria.

Wrong!

I've been in tech myself for a decade and half now. Before that, I was in business and finance. I heard everyone talking about tech, so I tried to jump ship as well. I took short courses and worked on personal projects, but I found out it wasn't easy to break into the industry. In the end, I had to go back to university full-time to earn a tech degree and gain some real-world experience before I could get my foot in the door.

No one tells you the secret I found out after I got into tech: Most people in tech who don't have a tech degree combined with internships or relevant work experience got in through strong connections and are big mediocre but they have god fathers protecting them through connections.

MindHacker9009:
Wrong!

I've been in tech myself for a decade and half now. Before that, I was in business and finance. I heard everyone talking about tech, so I tried to jump ship as well. I took short courses and worked on personal projects, but I found out it wasn't easy to break into the industry. In the end, I had to go back to university full-time to earn a tech degree and gain some real-world experience before I could get my foot in the door.

No one tells you the secret I found out after I got into tech: Most people in tech who don't have a tech degree combined with internships or relevant work experience got in through strong connections and are big mediocre but they have god fathers protecting them through connections.

Thats just tech and companies in nigeria and some third world countries.

lexdino:
Big man, Airsay.

We going fine here. How is it going over there?

Some months back, I completed the IVR task the other time on a Vultr paid host using Zoiper as soft extension. Not willing to spend any more money on further hardwares though, because it seems FreePBX server administrator is not really a skill that can get one a job anymore.

But it was an interesting learning experience for me.

Good to hear from you bro. About the bolded, not much I can say. And since you already have that belief, it won’t be fair to try to convince you otherwise. Glad you learned something though

Kaczynski:
Thats just tech and companies in nigeria and some third world countries.

Companies in Nigeria and some other developing countries are even better in this regard, as they value a technology degree. However, many overseas countries prefer mediocre over those with a technology degree. This is one reason why many IT projects fail and why billions have been wasted on such projects. However, this may start to change soon due to privacy concerns and new regulations regarding how data is secured, which can only be done by those with a good CS/SE degree and good experience.

MindHacker9009:
Companies in Nigeria and some other developing countries are even better in this regard, as they value a technology degree. However, many overseas countries prefer mediocre over those with a technology degree. This is one reason why many IT projects fail and why billions of dollars have been wasted on such projects. However, this may start to change soon due to privacy concerns and new regulations regarding how data is secured, which can only be done by those with a good CS/SE degree and good experience.

Degrees does not mean anything, i have seen people with cs degrees but they don't know whats a hash table. Imagine a doctor that cannot carry out a surgery . Most professions are more of practical than theory. People are gradually waking up to see degrees means less. In the US you'd see high schoolers get tech jobs more than Phd holders.


Which IT project failed?? The tech industry in nigeria is still in its infancy.



Degrees are good if one is into academia and likes to do more research into what ever interests him.

In the late 90s people were getting hired on irc and bbs, no one cared if you had a degree or not . The important thing was whether you deliver or not.

Read about Tim Paterson; he has a CS degree. He was the one who created DOS, which MS bought from the company he worked for, for only $50K and later made billions/trillions from it. However, no one heard about him because he was just an employee, until recently, when YouTube brought it to attention. This is what often happens in tech: People with strong CS/SE backgrounds who create great stuff are not heard of, but those in control who's parents are loaded and connected are the ones who take the credit and make billions/trillions.

Tim Paterson
Biography
Paterson was educated in the Seattle Public Schools, graduating from Ingraham High School in 1974. He attended the University of Washington, working as a repair technician for The Retail Computer Store in the Green Lake area of Seattle, Washington, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science[1] in June 1978. He went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer.[1] He designed the hardware of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlKASM8h5g

Kaczynski:
Degrees does not mean anything, i have seen people with cs degrees but they don't know whats a hash table. Imagine a doctor that cannot carry out a surgery . Most professions are more of practical than theory. People are gradually waking up to see degrees means less. In the US you'd see high schoolers get tech jobs more than Phd holders.


Which IT project failed?? The tech industry in nigeria is still in its infancy.



Degrees are good if one is into academia and likes to do more research into what ever interests him.

In the late 90s people were getting hired on irc and bbs, no one cared if you had a degree or not . The important thing was whether you deliver or not.

MindHacker9009:
Read about Tim Paterson; he has a CS degree. He was the one who created DOS, which MS bought from the company he worked for, for only $50K and later made billions/trillions from it. However, no one heard about him because he was just an employee, until recently, when YouTube brought it to attention. This is what often happens in tech: People with strong CS/SE backgrounds who create great stuff are not heard of, but those in control are the ones who take the credit and make billions/trillions.

Tim Paterson
Biography
Paterson was educated in the Seattle Public Schools, graduating from Ingraham High School in 1974. He attended the University of Washington, working as a repair technician for The Retail Computer Store in the Green Lake area of Seattle, Washington, and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Science[1] in June 1978. He went to work for Seattle Computer Products as a designer and engineer.[1] He designed the hardware of Microsoft's Z-80 SoftCard which had a Z80 CPU and ran the CP/M operating system on an Apple II.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnlKASM8h5g

He's just like every guy in tech, Bill joy tops whatever this guy did.

People that created something ,these guys have no degrees eg dennis ritches, richard stallman, linus torvalds etc.

If linus torvalds was naive like this tim guy, Minix would be far ahead of Linux, Linux would just be dead.

Kaczynski:
He's just like every guy in tech, Bill joy tops whatever this guy did.

People that created something ,these guys have no degrees eg dennis ritches, richard stallman, linus torvalds etc.

If linus torvalds was naive like this tim guy, Minix would be far ahead of Linux, Linux would just be dead.

Linus Torvalds attended the University of Helsinki, graduating with a master's degree in computer science from the NODES research group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds

James Gosling: Java creator
All in computer science: Bachelor of Science from the University of Calgary[4] and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling

A CE/CS/SE degree is a must in tech, the problem is that someone else employing them will take credit for their work even the none CS/SE team lead who got there through work politics too will take the credit if they are just an employee or a contractor and no one will hear about them

When to place Kamailio in front of Asterisk?

Kamailio is not a must for Asterisk.

Asterisk can function as a complete SIP PBX on its own. Many deployments use only Asterisk for:

10 phones → Asterisk alone is fine.
100 phones → Asterisk alone is usually fine.
1,000 phones → Asterisk is often still fine.
50,000 registrations or carrier traffic → Kamailio becomes very attractive.

Capability ------------------------|| Asterisk----------|| Kamailio
SIP authentication-------------||Yes-----------------|| Yes
IP-based access control------|| Yes----------------|| Yes
Fail2Ban integration-----------|| Yes----------------|| Yes
Basic rate limiting--------------|| Yes----------------|| Yes
SIP flood protection-----------|| Good-------------|| Excellent
Large-scale SIP filtering------|| Limited----------|| Excellent
Protect multiple PBXs--------|| Limited----------|| Excellent

airsaylongcome:
It's mostly networking. It's niche I know but part of the aim is to get readers interested. An L1 VoIP tech with zero experience will be earning around $17.50/hr for a US business. That's for someone with 0 years of experience and just basic idea about it o. A good self starter would be doing around $30/hr within 3 years with self development. And that's not hard stuff doing crazy UI/UX or CSS stuff o. I literally got my first role after watching a 30-part YouTube tutorial. From zero knowledge o. Someone with some networking background and a bit of drive could be starting at around $20/hr. It's just a bit frustrating having almost no one interested in it. I was on a call with an African-American in the space and the first thing he said was "THANK GOD you are black!" Said he's tired of attending VoIP conferences across the world and being almost the only black person in the room. He's almost always only the black speaker at these conferences.

That's for just tech. Devs could be building VoIP apps for mobile/desktop. Linphone already has any interested dev half the way. Add WebRTC using SIP.js or JSSIP and people here could be playing in that space

Is asm a reference to Assembly language? RISC or CISC?

Hello bro. Can I send you an email. I’ll like to know the opportunities in this field.
Coming from a devops career