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#11 Unread post by Ninja Geoff »

roscowgo wrote:Some days IT is the best gig on the planet. Others you would be happier being a test dummy at an experimental weapons test site.
Ugh, i know! IT shop (at highschool, vo-tech place) was the best week and the worst week at the same time. Sure it was fun to redo the entire punch panel, but not when it took all day. Or yeah, I'll come down to your class and look at your computer... Wait, you didn't ask the SCHOOL'S HIRED IT GUY to do this for you?

"procreating" idiots, even in a school! You'd think that at least THERE you'd get SOME intelligence.

What certs do you have/degree? I've been out of school for a bit and really onsing for an IT jorb, saving up for A+ and Net+ test. And decent books to study them.
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#12 Unread post by roscowgo »

Don't have degree or cert #1 yet actually.

Need 1 english class for the associates. (moved very near the end of my program, and havent had time, money, or the energy to do one of the distance classes.)

Same story on the certs. Last time i checked i could ace the A+, and CCNA practice tests over and over. 6 more months and i will have 4 years as a network/sysadmin under my belt. (I have no idea how i landed this job, God must love me. Actually I suspect its because I didn't bat an eye at the wage.) With the latest projects, QoS, HIPAA compliance, ACl's, frame relay, the whole NAT mess... I think i should be creeping up on the CCNP level stuff.

Eh who knows. I'm mighty handy with the digital duct tape though. :D
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#13 Unread post by t_bonee »

I don't have any certs either. An Associates of Business in Computer Communication and 7 years experiance. I keep saying I will start on getting certs. And then I don't. Maybe someday.
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#14 Unread post by CNF2002 »

Had one that jammed a pencil into the power supply exhaust fan of her desktop unit because it was too noisy.
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Thats got to be one of the best I've heard! Bet she got all mad, too, like it wasn't her fault ;)
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#15 Unread post by skoebl »

I just did two years of tech support for my high school (was a class, which made it an "easy" A). Never again will I subject myself to such pain (physical and mental). But, I learned some things to use in my own troubleshooting. For the most part, it's always something simple.
On my first day as a "techie", my friend and I were called out to one of the classrooms because a teacher wasn't able to get the VCR to show up because "the imputs were wrong". So we go in there, thinking it's a complicated thing, we change settings, check cables, double check the tape in another machine.....Then, I accidentally hit the channel change button on the remote.
VOILA! there's the video, playing as if nothing happened. So, "the imputs being wrong" meant "I'm too "procreating" stupid to use electronics."

Oddly enough this was the same teacher who, when the school upgraded from 386's to nice, new gateway 2Ghz machines, complained that they were too loud and too slow....... :roll: :frusty:
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#16 Unread post by roscowgo »

Yep. People+Electrons=Brain Damage.
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#17 Unread post by thebighop »

Yup!!! Lock it up, or you'll end up with the same problem that forced me to retire...the FBI was called in to investigate where all the bodies were coming from :shooting2:
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#18 Unread post by roscowgo »

thebighop wrote:Yup!!! Lock it up, or you'll end up with the same problem that forced me to retire...the FBI was called in to investigate where all the bodies were coming from :shooting2:

I store my bodies in the boiler room. Warmer in there :D
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#19 Unread post by djbear »

You guys have it EASY!!!

I am Tech Support for Verizon Online DSL
The Idiot cxs & even first & second Level Techs
Are horrible!!!!!!!!!


Plus I work the Graveyard Shift where everyone I speak to
Wants their Pron NOW!!!!!!
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#20 Unread post by High_Side »

Another perspective:
There are a large number of IT people who have a hard time understanding why they are there in the first place. They are a service provider. People ask for service. They haven't lived their lives playing with video games and computers and they are specialized in other parts of the buisness that you might not know so much about. Sure there are dumb questions, asked of people in all professions. If everyone knew computers inside and out the IT job market would kinda suck....
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