Grow Your Career in 2026

About this episode

This episode discusses career growth for network engineers, including salary expectations and negotiation strategies, recorded live at a networking event.

What does a network engineer actually make in 2025–2026? How do you ask for a raise without making it weird? And what's the single biggest thing holding your career back? We recorded this one live. This episode comes straight from the US Networking User Association PA Network User Group 2026 Spring Career Day — a standing-room-only event organized by USNUA in the Philadelphia area. Five talks. Five perspectives. All of it relevant to where you are right now in your career. Drew Conroy Murray ...

People in this episode

Host: Andy

Topics covered

• career growth
• network engineering
• salary negotiation
• professional development
• live event

Keywords

• network engineer
• career growth
• salary
• raise
• professional development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: US Networking User Association, PA Network User Group

Places: Philadelphia

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