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ashrobbo · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:31

I spent 3 years working at my old high school, it was my first full time job, straight after 6th form,

All i can say is the experience was fantastic, luckily i had an awesome manager and a great it dept to work with. Training was always available and i got to go on several great courses.

They also paid for my part time IT Degree as they had nicked me out of 6th form.

Kids were sods at times, repairing keyboards because they had spelt the word **** on the top row wasn't always the best job in the world, At the end of the 3 years I had a fair few responsibilities and was very well acknowledged.

I decided to move on shortly after to a server maintenance company, where everything was the polar opposite, driving lots of miles to perform very measly tasks (replace hot swap hard drive and drive back 200 odd miles mainly) and i'm now at a company where i don't have as much training opportunities as I may have done in the school, but the money is miles better then it would have been.

Good to get going but I wouldn't go back, as the salary would be reduced by atleast a 3rd.

squerble · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:32

I also work in a college as an IT Technician, although I'm kind of fortunate in that I've been moved up to network support, so I'm doing all the nitty gritty server stuff, like managing AD, Exchange, all our VMware servers, switch programming etc.

Mind you I'm still on an apprenticeship and only get paid £8.5k p.a. Please take pity on me!

gambitt · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:33

I know rates for low level IT roles have dropped in the last 10 or so years, but 16k? :/

SuperTronNarwhal · 5 Sep 2011 at 19:43

Join it but tell him your working somewhere else.

squerble · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:09

gambitt said:
I know rates for low level IT roles have dropped in the last 10 or so years, but 16k? :/

That's not too bad, I think I'd be lucky to get £15k at my current place of work (if they take me on), and that would be doing all the server/network/sys admin work, not even the tech work.

TNGL · 5 Sep 2011 at 20:40

ashrobbo said:
I spent 3 years working at my old high school, it was my first full time job, straight after 6th form,

All i can say is the experience was fantastic, luckily i had an awesome manager and a great it dept to work with. Training was always available and i got to go on several great courses.

They also paid for my part time IT Degree as they had nicked me out of 6th form.

Kids were sods at times, repairing keyboards because they had spelt the word **** on the top row wasn't always the best job in the world, At the end of the 3 years I had a fair few responsibilities and was very well acknowledged.

I decided to move on shortly after to a server maintenance company, where everything was the polar opposite, driving lots of miles to perform very measly tasks (replace hot swap hard drive and drive back 200 odd miles mainly) and i'm now at a company where i don't have as much training opportunities as I may have done in the school, but the money is miles better then it would have been.

Good to get going but I wouldn't go back, as the salary would be reduced by atleast a 3rd.

Sounds like a good school if you ask me; the fact the IT department knew you were talented, and went through that much effort to get you on their team says a lot

Regarding apprenticeships, they're great for getting experience on your CV, which will make it so much easier for getting a job in IT.

MuttsNutts · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:18

Dont do it you will loose all knowledge of IT after about 6 months of doing it plus most likely be on a sexual harrasment charge from eyeing up all the college putang......LOL

I work for an IT company and i go to bussiness and colleges a like and all the IT staff in colleges tend to say they used to know a lot about IT but since they took the job in the college loose touch of it all due to decreasing budjets and unsable to invest in new equipment......and for only 1k rise hardly worth the bother of updating ya CV lol

gambitt · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:39

karlbbb said:
That's not too bad, I think I'd be lucky to get £15k at my current place of work (if they take me on), and that would be doing all the server/network/sys admin work, not even the tech work.

sys admin for £15k? But why settle for that? Even fixing desktop PCs would get you much more. £15k is noob on an 1st line service desk money.

squerble · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:47

gambitt said:
sys admin for £15k? But why settle for that? Even fixing desktop PCs would get you much more. £15k is noob on an 1st line service desk money.

Who said I was settling for it

I was (hoping to) making a point about low wages. Public sector is a pretty poor place to be.

gambitt · 5 Sep 2011 at 21:54

sorry I meant, why would any self respecting sys admin settle for it

I can't imagine them getting too many applications from decent candidates so they'll probably end up with someone who has to ask google what pinging is.

moss · 6 Sep 2011 at 07:53

smoove said:
Im second line support for a very large IT company and I'm on a crap £15k as well. Been here nearly 5 years and only had bout £500 pay rise

I work in the public sector (Fire Service) doing IT. Quite a small IT team so we basically cover all 1st-3rd line jobs between us and are all paid the same wage which is mid 20's.
I'd not be too keen to do the same job on £15k, I was making almost that much working in a local car parts shop a years ago.