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Do you work in IT?

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Rip the Jacker

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A) What's your position?
B) Tell me what you do during your job
C) What do you do after work?

I'm curious, as I will be starting (my first job) in September.
 
1)Senior Computer Operator II
2)Manage the day-to-day operations of the NOC during my shift. We process tax information and send it out (a very basic description).
3)Right now nothing. Once I get to my regular hours, I hope to start hiking more.
 
Yes.
Network System Administrator, supervise two of the 7 people I work with.
Maintain DCs, Exchange servers, web servers, user accounts, tape backup and switches for 1.5K+ user, 44-server network. Some light infrastructure and PC troubleshooting as well.

Spare time? See the GF. Play PC video games. Watch movies. Do laundry. Clean the house. Drink bourbon. :wine: Forgot to add that I do go to the gym 4-5 days a week. Lots of treadmil/eliptical. Very light weights when I'm feeling like a tough guy.
 
a) IT Engineer
b) Maintain DCs, Exchange servers, web servers, user accounts, tape backup and switches for200+ user, 24-server network. Some light infrastructure and PC troubleshooting.
c) mountain biking, swimming, snowboarding, hiking, whatever the season falls on and when time permits.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
didn't we just have a post exactly like this a few days ago?
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1) Programmer/Analyst
2) Application support/integration/upgrading. Minor programming tasks (not nearly enough). Manage consultants working for us.
3) Golf, basketball, soon to have a child (2 weeks away-ish), hiking, home renovations etc.
 
1)Wireless Network Engineer
2)Install Access Points and Backhaul's to various towers and other mounting locations, occasionally install customer premise equipment
3)Hunt, Fish, Hike, Snomobile, Wakeboard, Competition Shooting, Camping, Whatever else I feel like doing.
 
Originally posted by: Rip the Jacker
A) What's your position?
B) Tell me what you do during your job
C) What do you do after work?
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A) Security Engineer (formerly OS engineer)
B) Systems development and integration of security apps such as Cisco Security Agent, Identity management systems, consultanting. Includes installation packaging with scripts, documentation, application development (vbscript, C, C#, java, html), log monitoring and reporting (reactive/proactive to security ops center), monitor corporate error reporting - MS tool (left over from OS job), part of review boards for new development.
C) Video - shoot/edit/produce; family things; ride my bike so I don't look like I sit in a chair all day
 
A) Varies (I run an IT consulting firm and do different things for different clients)
B) Try to look busy, except when something breaks, then I am busy
C) If I'm not working I'm doing school stuff, if I'm not doing either of those then hitting the bars/clubs with my friends.
 
A) Systems Engineer
B) Monitor systems and go to meetings............ ........ .......... ........ a la dilbert and office space........
C) Not quite in a groove yet since I'm still settling into a new area. Tonight I'm going on a date and then meeting my brother... I have the parts for his new computer. I'm going to crash at there and we're building in the morning. Sometimes I go home and do home improvement projects. Some days I go home and clean house... sometimes it's pizzasteak/beer/cigars.... whatever
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
No, Im a tax accounting intern and Im kind of a big deal.
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Sorry, but I just don't see being a tax account intern and big deal being in the same paragraph. You read IRS guidance and fill out little forms, right?
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
No, Im a tax accounting intern and Im kind of a big deal.
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Sorry, but I just don't see being a tax account intern and big deal being in the same paragraph. You read IRS guidance and fill out little forms, right?
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It was a joke. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
No, Im a tax accounting intern and Im kind of a big deal.
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Sorry, but I just don't see being a tax account intern and big deal being in the same paragraph. You read IRS guidance and fill out little forms, right?
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It was a joke. :roll:
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😱 Oh...my sarcasm meter is broken. Been a long week.

n/m

/crawls under rock
 
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: krunchykrome
No, Im a tax accounting intern and Im kind of a big deal.
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Sorry, but I just don't see being a tax account intern and big deal being in the same paragraph. You read IRS guidance and fill out little forms, right?
Click to expand...

It was a joke. :roll:
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😱 Oh...my sarcasm meter is broken. Been a long week.

n/m

/crawls under rock
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Yea, thanks for making an intern feel like crap. 😉

No hard feelings though, I know my place in the industry at this point in my life.
 
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