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Originally Posted by Dr. Funkenstein  I couldn't stand IT. Getting my CS degree and various certs was fun. Doing it on a day to day basis as a job was torture. Go figure.
Probably because I'm the type that's only going to be happy owning my own business. As such, I've spent the last 4 years putting every dollar into building one. Now, I love my job but have no personal cash flow. That'll change soon enough, but my current bling level is very very low. |
It seems that the further I go with my IT career, the less I have to know. When I was 18 doing internships, I was doing unix tape backups (tape monkey bitch job), doing installs for any number of apps, driving out the DOE test site in nevada to fix problems ranging from hardware swaps, installs, removing viruses, etc. I was fixing software for Vax VMS, Unix, Sun, Windows systems, the works.
Then I did the 2 or 3 $15 an hour tech jobs working the phones and people could call in with literally a hundred different problems. A job you really had to do for 6 months before you had heard it all and knew the fix.
But now, I'm a "Senior Windows System Architect" and I really don't have to know as much. Creating/modifying batch jobs, basic account management (my password doesn't work and I got locked out! I swear it's not because I entered my password with the caps lock key on!), some hardware work (last night I replaced 2 PCI fiber cards in some Intel rack mount servers), and special projects. That's it. And yes, I will say that the work is more complicated/involved than my earlier jobs, just seems like less work. Maybe it's the "work smarter, not harder" thing. Honestly, I love my job, because they don't give me busy work. I work, at night, from home unless something goes wrong at the data center but when I have worked during the day at the office, my boss knows what I have to do for that day, my projects, and if I get them done, he doesn't give me busy work. I can spend the rest of the day browsing the net with him next to me.
I honestly do love my job and being told I beat 900 other applicants for it was a good feeling. I got the call that they were interested and when they told me my pay rate, I honestly wouldn't let myself get excited. It was too good to be true, and something would happen. When I finally did sign the offer letter; easily one of the best days of my life, especially at the time because of the job I had. I was working at a Tech Manager for a CCTV company, a startup, where the owner sold me on it when I did the interview. I really believed in the product and convinced myself that the company was going to blow up and I'd be fucking models on piles of stock options. The product, a DVR with remote monitoring and notification tools, was NEVER tested or seen in action by my boss, and it didn't work. In the end, my last days there, I was doing blind telemarketing calls trying to find customers. Also, let me tell you it's a real motivation killer when you're boss is telling you to lie to customers why their product doesn't work and you know that their is no fix, that nothing can be done to the hardware to ever make about 85% of it's features work, at all.
