IT workers, what was your first job?

Holy old thread revival batman!

To think Ive been promoted twice and gone from £15k to a shade over £20k in the 5 years since making this thread. Not bad progress :D
 
mrbios said:
Holy old thread revival batman!

To think Ive been promoted twice and gone from £15k to a shade over £20k in the 5 years since making this thread. Not bad progress :D
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Any sort of promotion in a school is good going!

Fun fact, the IT manager for the school I volunteered at was/is a good friend of mine. I'm now his consultant for anything virtualisation, networks or security :D
 
Woo... Old. I'm game :)
1st job: Mobile phone dev/tester. 18k starting. 24k+pens by end of year 1. The co. went bankrupt during .com bubble burst.
2nd job: Not IT related
3rd job: Not IT related
4th job: 2nd line support in education. 18k starting, 41k on leaving.
5th job (and current): 3rd line support and networking engineer. With some Windows infrastructure thrown in. And server admin. Everything really. £less than #4. Yep, paycut for the better technical position!
 
My first IT job was during the summer holidays when studying Computer Science at Loughborough (aka Lufbra). My old college lecturer got in touch and I did a five week contract for BHP (now BHP Billiton) in London. Got something like £250 a week which was a huge amount for me then - topped up the beer fund no end! :D

During my year-out did a few more contracts. Best one was at DERA in Farnborough when the air-show was on. The office windows used to rattle a lot when planes buzzed over.
 
edGfaCTor said:
That used to be the point of a junior role for people to gain some extra knowledge and experience.

This is what annoys me at times a lot of places wont even look at you if you haven't worked for another comapny well how is anyone suppose to find a job then?

I agree about degree i know some many people that have them and don't have a clue about computers yet some people that don't have any can do the job but never get looked at.
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Agreed - I suppose my point was, we have 'junior' roles which require some experience. Some organisations have the capacity to train people and throw resources at their staff, but not all do. Some need to take people who can do the job from day one. There are roles at the very bottom which don't pay that well but they are important for 6 to 18 months to get your feet and find a good grounding - these require enthusiasm and good basic knowledge of computers, not a lot more. A degree requirement is, IMO not a necessity. I do find the graduates, in general, have good communication skills and the ability to work alone more effectively. I'd say this is less prevalent in non-grads (although some are better than graduates, admittedly).

Anyway, back to the point, what I meant in my post was there is a misconception that because they someone can fix their PC at home they can work effectively in an enterprise environment. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing!
 
First job title: IT Support Technician
First job description: General IT Technical support within a sixth form college, looking after the network, installing software, rolling out new OS to the college systems.

Current job: IT Support Technician
 
First job title: 1st and 2nd Telephone support
First job salary: £14,000 (promoted to second job)
Second job title: Field Technician
Second job salary: £20,000
First job description: 1st and 2nd line support. Definitely recommend if you're starting out try to get a job with a lot of variation.
Second job description: When 1st and 2nd line couldn't solve a problem, they'd send me. Normally plugging a PC in or a simple hardware / software fix. Piece of cake, found this job much easier than telephone support!
Current job: Basically a jack of all trades IT guy from website development to PC repairs to server installation. My next move will be a more specialised role :)

I was 1st line support for a year, then got promoted to field technician and then after 3 years I moved to my current job and have been here for almost 2 years.
 
mrbios said:
Holy old thread revival batman!

To think Ive been promoted twice and gone from £15k to a shade over £20k in the 5 years since making this thread. Not bad progress :D
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Funny looking back now, how things have changed in a relatively short space of time.

I know my career has changed significantly since then.
 
First job title:1st - 2nd line support
First job salary: 13k went up to 16k
Second job title: support analyst
Second job salary: 22k
First job description: worked for a major optical retailer head office in a team of 12 support engineers supporting the staff at over 600 retail shops and supporting in house development team.
Second job description: worked for a IT services company and was placed at various clients doing on site 1st-2nd line support.
Current job: I work for a IT managed services and software company as third line analyst and i do operational support for 3 sites and smaller projects like office 2010 rollout and work like switch firmware upgrades, setting up wireless networks and so on. I am in a team of one other guy who does larger projects, exchange upgrades, storage & vmware setups and I assist with that. We work together to support 4/5 sites at a third line level.
 
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First job title:Car insurance Customer serivce
First job salary:15k
Second job title: IT support (1st Line) (NHS)
Second job salary: 18.6K
First job description: dealing with car renewals, customer serivce etc
Second job description: 1st Line Support
Current job: number 1, number 2 starts on the 4th of march
 
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First job was for a very small IT manufacturer, testing kit before it went out and reparing returns

now Enterprise server and SAN storage customer engineer
 
First job title: IT Service desk (1st lline)
First job salary: £17.5
Second job title: Graduate enginneer (Grad scheme)
Second job salary: £24
First job description: 1st line helpdesk, pretty standard.
Second job description: 2 year grad scheme testing out various parts of the business.
Current job: Telecom Project Manager. (continued on from my 4th placement)
 
First job title: IT Systems Administrator
First job salary:14.5K
First job description:2nd and 3rd line IT support for an NHS trust

Second job title: IT Field Support Engineer (North)
Second job salary: 25K
Second job description:2nd and 3rd line IT support and technical project lead for a major healthcare IT vendor

Now I'm non technical on more money and more responsibility but enjoying it less and less!
 
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