I've been with the phone company for over 8 years; I've been a techinician for about 4 of those 8 years. I like the tech side of things, always have, but I feel like the "upward mobility" of the phone company isn't what it used to be. I really have no IT or networking skills, but simply telephone, voip, and internet installations and repairs. I mean, it's techinically IT work, but noweher in the same realm or capacity as you guys.

What kind of IT career can I parlay my telecom experience into? Where would you suggest I go from here? I know in the early days every phreak on the planet would love to get access to telco stuff, but these days, it just seems very..."no where". I like tech work, and I feel like having "Big Telco" experience on my resume would be a huge advantage, but I'm not sure it would make me any better than any other guy with certs. Let me know what you I should do.