IT workers, what was your first job?

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As per title, what was your first IT job? (and maybe your second?) posting it in here because its people who work in enterprise environments that I'm interested in

Probably best put like this:

First job title:
First job salary:
Second job title:
Second job salary:
First job description:
Second job description:
Current job:

^ feel free to leave out salary's if you do not wish to post those

I fancy getting to know what the level of knowledge and experience is like in here and how you progressed from one to another
 
mrbios said:
First job title: 1st Line Support for the NHS
First job salary: 18k - left on 24.5k
Second job title: Field Support Engineer
Second job salary: 27k
First job description: As above! Started as pure 1st line on phones but gained a lot of experience there and left with a wealth of knowledge. Left after being promoted to server support.
Second job description: Day to day break fix of everything and anything.
Current job: Senior IT Project Implementation for a large global finance house.
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I first got into IT through accounting. I was a manual bookkeeping clerk and the company bought a computerised multi-user sales and accounting system running on BOS and I became the system administrator

First job title: Sys Admin
First job salary: peanuts (it was 1984!)
Second job title: computer support
Second job salary: about 2x peanuts
First job description: applied patches, did backups onto floppies every night, wrote business specifications for new functionality
Second job description: installed OS (BOS, Netware, AIX, Xenix, DOS, DR-DOS), applications (WordPerfect, TetraPlan, BOS, Lotus 1-2-3)
Current job: Solution Designer for big-four supermarket, responsible for all systems in the retail side including groceries e-commerce website. Server selection & sizing, network design, resilience design, DR design, operational setup and implementation, vendor analysis and solution selection, etc.
 
First job title: 1st line support
First job salary: 13K :eek:
Second job title: Second line support
Second job salary: 25K
First job description: usual phone based stuff
Second job description: desktops, and general fixing user mistakes plus packaging for images
Current job: Network Manager, responsible for all the infrastucture, live and dev and test environments
 
First job title: Information Services Intern (USA - New Hampshire)
First job salary: $12/hr. $18 w/ overtime. $26k / year or equivalent of around £15k.
Job description: One of only two IT people at the New Hampshire site of a Biotech / Pharma company. Everything from backups, servers, user support and training, networks and SANs.
 
First job title:Accounts Analyst
First job salary:£18k
Second job title:Analyst Programmer
Second job salary:£25k basic
First job description:Working in Accounts, supporting and writing in house bespoke apps/websites
Second (current) job description:Writing/supporting internal web-based apps to manage stock control, trouble tickets, ordering etc with the Government.. who would have thought the security stuff would be so interesting to have to program against! Mostly .NET 2+ and classic ASP.
 
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First job title: Junior Software Developer
First job salary: £24k (well would have been if I worked a full year)
Second job title: Junior Security Consultant
Second job salary: My current so would rather not say.

First job description: Consisted of writing software for automation of testing and QA and managing the nightly automation process on multiple different OSs.
Second (current) job description: Um.. penetration testing of software and networks. Vulnerability assessment and exploit development. Publishing papers on security research. Very varied work - client focused and each day is different.
 
First job title: Support Analyst

First job salary: Started on 16.5k, left on 26.5k

Second job title: Server Engineer

Second job salary: Reasonable amount more than job #1 :)

First job description: 1st and 2nd line support for the desktops team (16 people in total), plus project + implementation work, too much to list really.

Second job description: Server support team member (4 people) specialising in a few areas such as SMS, software licensing etc as well as all the day to day server (and a lot of the desktop development) stuff.

Current job: Job number 2 as posted above :)
 
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First job title:HP Sofware Consultant
First job salary:26K + Car
Second job title: Server Tools Specialist
Second job salary: 44K
First job description: Solutions Architecture + Implementations of HP ITSM Type Solutions
Second job description: Administrator for Server Monitoring Tools in a governement department (2K+ Servers)
Current job: Second Job!
 
First job title: EPoS Systems Admin for what was then small games retailer (1992)
First job salary:
Second job title: Deployment Engineer (1995)
Second job salary:
First job description: Support of anything that had a screen attached to it from tills, servers, desktops, phone the works. Also did a lot of stock and other analysis
Second job description: Deployment of hardware, software across customer sites. Management of small team of engineers.
Current job: Technical Architect/Tech Lead for large Outsourcing Company
 
Can some of the people who started off in first line support say (if you dont mind that is), how long you had to be first line support before you left and managed to get a decent paying job. I ask because if i dont manage to get into the army after my degree, im pretty much stuck with a first line support job.
 
I was lucky in that the team I joined for my first job as everyone in the team did everything, so you did 1st line, 2nd line, project work, rollouts etc. So if you can find a role like that it's a good start :)
 
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Can some of the people who started off in first line support say (if you dont mind that is), how long you had to be first line support before you left and managed to get a decent paying job. I ask because if i dont manage to get into the army after my degree, im pretty much stuck with a first line support job.
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Try get an industrial placement at somewhere big for the summers while studying your degree. I can't stress how much this really helps you and looks good on your CV..
 
First job title: Junior Technician
First job salary: £7500 a year
Current job title: Technician
Current job salary: £21,000 a year
Current job description:

Managing ~100 PCs in 3 student labs with a mix of Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux and responsible for a Netware OES server, roughly 500 students. I also help out with our department domain (only made the move to 2003 this summer) and AD.

Work changes from setting up the labs in the summer to dealing with day-to-day issues students have once term goes back and also invigilating exams if needed.

Currently training up on Linux, DNS & Bind as well as unattended Windows installs to move into administrator role and away from the labs.
 
I've been in my current job since I left school...So just over 5 years I think.

I've just gone up the company from Building to testing everything...(Desktops / Servers etc...) But I also do all of the Project work that involves the server cabinets, so I install them on site at some Police HQ's etc...which is a nice change of scenery.

However I shant go into pay...As it's rather poor =/ Which is annoying to say the least...I started on 7.2k though. It's gone up obviously, but it would be nice if it was a tad higher.
 
First - Network Engineer, bit of a misleading title, it was small business IT and a lot of server stuff using SBS. c. £24k

Second - Backoffice engineer, network and server admin generally, replacing netware with AD, exchange upgrades, network redesign. £38k (contracting)

Current - Infrastructure architect. Network and infrastructure design for an ISP/MSP, anything and everything really. MPLS to SANs, try and avoid servers these days though. £68k + bonuses etc...
 
mrbios said:
First job title: Helpdesk Trainee
First job salary: 8k
Second job title: 2nd line support
Second job salary: 22k
First job description: front line support, deal with customers
Second job description: behind a desk, phones some development work
Current job: Workstation Development (i create network installs as well as housekeeping and some development work), 30k
I would rather not go into details about my current work
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I joined as a trainee so slowly worked my way up doing courses part time
BTEC National for IT Practitioners (Distinction) when i was a Helpdesk Trainee
BSc Computer Science (First Honours) rescently finished this in my current job

Now i am a bit in limbo as the contracting market is pretty fierce so i dont want to leave a stable job, traveling while i have a bit of time but will focus on my future prospects when i have worked out what i want to do

@bigredshark
Do you contract or are perm staff?
 
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First job title: External Support Analyst
First job salary: £12,000
Second job title: IT Support Analyst (why is it always analyst?)
Second job salary: £14,000
Current job: IT Systems Engineer

At my second job, I was there for over 4 years and ended up running the IT systems and earning £35k a year (plus extras).

I'm on a similar wage now, as I decided to leave the cushy job and restart my life a bit. Just need to get working up that ladder now!
 
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