I HATE MY JOB!! I REALLY HATE MY JOB!!!

[Clocker]

I work at Best Buy as a computer tech. However, now I am forced to go into sales. At times I am standing near the entrance to convice people to sign up for MSN. I believe this is the most lowliest tech job on the planet. Further when I upgrade or build a PC for customers I have to download drivers on a 31200 dial-up connection-how pathetic.

I have a BA in prelaw. I have certs in A+ INET AND NETWORK+. Ya know what- certs do not mean shiot. I have tried to get a decent tech job but everyone wants soemone with a related degree. I make 13 and hour at that place and I am starting to get too busy selling stuff rather than fixing pcs.

Finally aperson comes in applying for a tech job.. He has every possible cert. Some experience, and he is only asking for 8.00 and hour. Give me a break? This is just absolutely ridiculous.


GOD why didnt I choose a CS major in college. Damn.... I need a real job. I keep trying but I get shiot for leads.

I always thought what you knew could get you in. Yeah right?



Further becoming a PC tech is usch a bad career choice. If an EMACHINE only cost 300 to buy who is going to pay a tech a decent amount to fix it.


CLocker

Any thoughts???


I want to quit but im so broke. Got a wife and all that. What to do. I should wear a large L on my forehead

 

[white]

quit. fix up your resume and at least try to find another job.

 

[J3anyus]

That sucks...my job is fun, I just sit on ATOT all day. Well, sometimes they have 5-10 minutes of web design for me, but that's not often.

 

[CanOWorms]

If you have a prelaw degree, why don't you go into law school or some familiar field that requires it?

 

[TallBill]

i'd say.. get outta that job as soon as possible..

 

[xchangx]

tell the manager that it's either repair/upgrade or you're out. What position did you apply for?

Chang

 

[monto]

a little editing of the resume will do the trick, exchange prelaw for CS

 

[Jfur]

what exactly is "pre-law"?

 

[gentobu]

Your right certs count for nothing! Ive got A+ net+ i-net+ and a few MCPs and compusa wouldnt hire me. Didnt even get a call back.

 

[Clocker]

Repair technician. Go FIGURE. I dont believe Best Buy has any intentions of having a real service bench. Im screwed. Time to look elsewhere. Economy isnt great. Also I hate dealing with some customers. Like today XP debut and we had alot of sales and this moring I was sent to sit at a table and sell XP.. The strange part is I dont even know that the specials are and I have to figure everyting out by looking at a flyer myself.

Then I get chewed by customers asking about the rebates instead of theri pc. Oh well.

 

[Clocker]

PRE LAW = NOT A LAW DEGREE

 

[CanOWorms]

So why don't you go to law school with a prelaw degree? Isn't that what it's meant to be used for??

 

[Soybomb]

Lol welcome to my world I want a job as a PC tech at a decently sized organization with a network. I would do the job and hopefully over the years work my way up to sysadmin/net engineer. I've got an associates degree, A+, and a pretty nice lookign resume from my student work experience. I'm getting paid $6 an hour for dialup tech support. The job market SUCKS! I left the CS program I was in because it was too much math for me. I guess next fall I'll return for "IST" but I don't think its gonna matter much when I get out either

 

[Clocker]

I really dont mind getting paid less but I wan to at least work my way up or at least have an opportunity to do so. BTW all those commericals that state how you can get a great job by getting certs is so full of doodoo. Maybe I should focus myself away from computers. This industry is starting to really suck monkey nuts.

 

[Soybomb]

See I don't think you'll ever see that great money as a tech for consumers at like best buy. If you can get into a real company/hospital/college then you've got a job as a tech keeping all the machiens on their network running. You've just got to find that opening! Sadly they don't seem too frequent

 

[xchangx]

if you are really serious, go to some small tech school like ITT Tech. Get a degres in MIS or CS and get your MCSE and CCNA/CCNP. Once you get something on paper, you should be able to find decent jobs. Look around on monster.com and stuff like that to see what companies are asking for. Most want some kind of degree and MCSE. There's a demand for SQL's right now.

 

[tcsenter]

<< Finally aperson comes in applying for a tech job.. He has every possible cert. Some experience, and he is only asking for 8.00 and hour. Give me a break? This is just absolutely ridiculous. >>

Its called a "market". There a bounty of high school kids who could do the job you're doing at Best Buy. Its not as if there is any shortage of people with the basic PC Technician skills. Find a position that is in demand with a comparatively short supply, and the pay will be better. Unfortunately, I believe Best Buy doesn't pay commission, else I would recommend you get out on the floor and sell your ass off. Commission is great, unless you're a bad salesman.

 

[brxndxn]

Circuit City has commission... but I wouldn't bother with that or any other store either.

What you need to find is a small firm (15-30 employees) that needs a network administrator... You'd probby hafta learn how to setup the phone systems also (but that's a lot less to learn than PCs) and you would be getting paid salary ($38k-60k year)...

 

[NOC9006]

I love my job but I hate the F%^#*ing shifts ! I am a Network Operations Center Analyst for a major communications company. Some days I would not mind going back to working as an EMT, but the experience I have gained so far has made me pretty marketable.

I would say, do your best to fix up the resume focusing on Computer/Networking skills and do your best to get in a position that will afford you the opportunity to learn. Try to find some technical organizations near you and make connections.

Or become an EMT.

Good Luck

 

[Clocker]

Yes I believe highschool kids could stay in front of the door and sell internet services. But I also believe not all highschool kids could solder components on a motherboard, repair various speaker componets, install multiple oses and partitions. Find or force drivers to work in multiple environments. Create custom recovery disk, back up data, and retrieve data from fualty hardware. The TECH BENCH is changing more and more. I dont like it. Im just really bummed. I know I need to get something different. " Hey all you kids out their". Plan ahead before you go to college. Unfortuatnely, I funded my own eduation and I am in serious debtr. I graduated w/ honors (barely) and still cant get a good job.

I know. I need to get a different job. It is comforting in a wierd way that some people are going throught the same shiot.

CLocker

 

[HamSupLo]

Again: why aren't you applying for law school?

 

[tcsenter]

<< Yes I believe highschool kids could stay in front of the door and sell internet services. But I also believe not all highschool kids could solder components on a motherboard, repair various speaker componets, install multiple oses and partitions. Find or force drivers to work in multiple environments. >>

My sister went to a vocational tech school for 8 months to be an electronics repair technician. She couldn't find a job because the focus of her training was on sub-system and component level troubleshooting and repair, like the old TV and VCR repair people.

Most employers didn't want someone who could do those labor-intensive things, they wanted someone who could quickly isolate the problem to the defective circuit board, remove it and pop-in an entirely new board. She was trained to save the board by locating and replacing the defective component on that board. Her skills, though in reality were superior to the skills needed to just pull an entire board and pop-in a new one, were considered "obsolete".

 

[Tauren]

Go to a motivational seminar, you need some ambition.

 

[obiwaynekenobi]

Things are tough no matter where you go. I have an A+ and MCP+I and I get a lot of interest but no takers I have been reduced to working for my dad in a home improvment store for less than half what I bill myself out at.

 

[wyvrn]

Been there done that. Have been laid off a dot com, worked helpdesk for 4 years with A+, almost finished MCSE and halfway through my CCNA program but was told by my current employer it "wouldn't matter". I couldn't buy my way off the helpdesk with the current market... I also have four years of college and need 38 credits to graduate, going back in the spring and going to get that degree and get the hell out of the f'ed up IT market. Too much of a roller coaster for me! :disgust: