Poll: Who on the forums DOESN'T work in IT

[glenimp617]

I've always wondered what I'd be doing if I didn't get into IT all those years ago. I can of course only dream of how good my life would have turned out

so come on then, who doesn't work in IT?

 

[glenimp617]

me , I'm a student.

pah, we don't need to hear from you hippies

 

[glenimp617]

Used to. Sacked that underpaid slave work off late last year to pursue a keen interest which should hopefully make me some money

sounds interesting

 

[glenimp617]

1st line helpdesk.

definitely not IT.

 

[glenimp617]

Me, I did start my current job as just a "foot in the door" type thing to work my way up the ladder to an IT role only to watch the company lay off loads of its IT crew and outsource most of its support roles. :/

You know I think the company I work for are going to do the same. Luckily I don't work in support but it's still a terrible thing to see.

 

[glenimp617]

Indeed, server virtualisation has a lot to answer for, less physical servers = less people needed to look after them.

That's where we are heading, everything is being moved over to ESXi and then eventually (so I hear from someone who knows someone) that's getting shipped out into a data centre

 

[glenimp617]

Fast food chain will be in IT when I've done A+ and MCSE though

How can you do an MCSE without working in IT

 

[glenimp617]

I'd rather boil my own head than work in IT again, far too much stress for what i'd consider limited reward (25k), glad i got out of the game 2 years ago.

What do you do now then? I completely agree!!!

I am the ONLY system administrator for my company so therefore responsible for the entire domain (30 servers, ok not a lot but still enough for me) plus support and all the extra **** that comes with it. On call for no extra money, on call every other Saturday for no money, working 4 hours on site every Saturday in about five for no extra money. Constant phone calls when I'm on holiday, the boss even made one of the IT trainers drive to my house to fetch me in once!! (December 22nd 2008, I had finished for Christmas)

We now have this call logger so I'm expected to do all the jobs on that plus server administration.

All that headache for £26k !

 

[glenimp617]

Define IT first.

I don't help people with MS office problems, I am doing a PhD involving computers and programming. I program robots, and therefore class myself as a robotisist. When programming for a computer I develop AI algorithms and classify myself as a scientist.

Miles Dyson, is that you

 

[glenimp617]

The reason for the thread, well one of the reasons anyway, was to find out if there's something out there that I might enjoy.

Can't stand working in IT.

There's no money in it and everyday is just problem, problem problem, nag, nag, NAG!. Employers seem to want the earth these days and pay peanuts for it.

Last job ad I saw wanted MCSE as a minimum with CCNA but was only prepared to pay £18k (and that was with experience).

My dad earns more than that and he does **** all

 

[glenimp617]

it's not what you know but who you know