IT job that doesn't require

[nakedfrog]

Is programming an IT job? Every idiot in the company submits their whims to the manager/project manager, who will generally filter them out for you.

 

[XxPrOdiGyxX]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Is programming an IT job? Every idiot in the company submits their whims to the manager/project manager, who will generally filter them out for you.

In my opinion, not really. There are developers in the IT industry...but I view it more as "engineering" since you are creating a product that is sold by the company. I guess that would depend more on the project you are working on.

 

[compman25]

Be a long haul truck driver.

 

[OCGuy]

My Outlook wont load because I forgot my password....can you help me? *sends support ticket*

 

[IEC]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: meltdown75

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: meltdown75
yes, here are a list of jobs where you start out at the top:

that's not what i'm saying...atot has a such a delusional imagination.

not as delusional as your sense of entitlement

what is my sense of entitlement? i've spent 12 years working in customer service type jobs. i want to do something different. I'm trying to figure what that is. how is that anywhere near a sense of entitlement?

You spent 12 years working a help desk job before realizing it was not for you?

What are ya, a glutton for punishment?

 

[StinkyPinky]

Man, support jobs suck. I'm usually a sys admin but the desktop support team is crippled with illness at the moment so I'm back with them. Shitty is one way to describe it.

Just now I went to some job and I wish I could kill that person for being so petty. At work we have a script that runs on login that logs users into the internet. For whatever reason that I havent looked at yet - this persons script doesnt run. So, they have to log in manually...which takes about 10 seconds per day. Oh noes!! You'd think I'd just told them their dog had died by the distress this seemed to cause them. Needless to say they want it to be urgent.

Can't wait to next week.

 

[Perknose]

Going out on your own is the way. But it takes a good bit of time to build up a clientele. However, there are TONS of small businesses out there that are completely ill-served by the monkey boys Dell subcontracts out to tend to their service contracts.

Those boys think EVERY problem is a hardware problem. But YOU know the near opposite is the case, right? Many, many, many of their problems are almost embarrassingly dead simple to fix, but they NEED their systems and you get to look like some kind of all magical hero.

It's not for everyone, for sure. And it's not the road to great riches unless you expand and hire people under you, which is a WHOLE 'nother kettle of fish. But you can try it a side project and see how you do.

 

[huberm]

basically if you can get a job in some kind of operations directly supporting the mission of a company, you will not face this. Any job in a support role will face this issue.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: randay
be an IT contractor for small businesses. do your shit well, and you should have no problems. when you do you arent actually around so they cant bitch to you about dumb things that they will eventually learn to live with 5 minutes after it happens.

That has been true for me. So many of these smaller companies can't swing a full time IT guy, and they usually have somebody on staff who can follow directions and think some things through. I get them set up and do the big jobs, and then do phone consults after that. I work hard to establish a good rapport with the 'guru' on staff, and for the most part they insulate me from the really irritating silly shit that some users come up with.
Yesterday one of my 'gurus' calls me with a user having a real slow computer problem. He came in to defrag and clean it up on the user's day off, and found 1% of free space. I thought about it for a minute and told him to look for music.
He calls back a few hours later and tells me of the 20K tunes he found with a search

The company is happy, the jobs get done but they have a manageable IT budget.

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
My Outlook wont load because I forgot my password....can you help me? *sends support ticket*

if OP is good he should go work for my company. IT driving me nuts lately

"hi, can you send me a disk partitioning program or perform a repartition for me [our policy allows lots of remote control and scripting]

im running out of space on C:\ and i've already moved all apps, swap file/pagefile, large documents, and desktop objects to D:

i've done all i can but corporate IT security complains im below 500mb free on C"


**IT person stays quiet for 3 minutes, then tries to clear my internet explorer temporary internet files as a solution** :roll:

 

[Buck Armstrong]

Why is everybody picking on this guy? He's got a valid point, namely that users fucking suck!

As for managers, I've met some very cool ones over the years that were very appreciative of what the IT/IS folks did for them, and made it obvious to everybody that IT/IS was more valuable than the other employees. But they've been relatively few and far between...