What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?
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@wirestyle22 im hoping!
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@JaredBusch said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
After getting out of ITT (that place can burn in hell) in 1993, I took a job as an alarm installer for a local alarm company in St Louis.
One day in my second week they sent me along with their guy that did all the card access stuff. After watching him single finger type in a few commands, I asked what he was needing to do and I took over. The autoexec.bat file had been overwrote by some other software the client tried to install on the PC and I had to put some settings back in that was required for PC-PAK (the access control software) to run.
I literally cannot picture you installing alarms. Crazy
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@wirestyle22 said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@JaredBusch said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
After getting out of ITT (that place can burn in hell) in 1993, I took a job as an alarm installer for a local alarm company in St Louis.
One day in my second week they sent me along with their guy that did all the card access stuff. After watching him single finger type in a few commands, I asked what he was needing to do and I took over. The autoexec.bat file had been overwrote by some other software the client tried to install on the PC and I had to put some settings back in that was required for PC-PAK (the access control software) to run.
I literally cannot picture you installing alarms. Crazy
I did not do basic systems for long. I specialized in access control systems which were all controlled by software on a PC.
I also was the only one that could knew how to program alarm systems via serial port. Back then, all the techs just did it all by hand through the system keypad.
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@wirestyle22 said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@WrCombs Brownie points acquired. I think you might unlock an achievement.
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@JaredBusch said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@wirestyle22 said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@JaredBusch said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
After getting out of ITT (that place can burn in hell) in 1993, I took a job as an alarm installer for a local alarm company in St Louis.
One day in my second week they sent me along with their guy that did all the card access stuff. After watching him single finger type in a few commands, I asked what he was needing to do and I took over. The autoexec.bat file had been overwrote by some other software the client tried to install on the PC and I had to put some settings back in that was required for PC-PAK (the access control software) to run.
I literally cannot picture you installing alarms. Crazy
I did not do basic systems for long. I specialized in access control systems which were all controlled by software on a PC.
I also was the only one that could knew how to program alarm systems via serial port. Back then, all the techs just did it all by hand through the system keypad.
Yeah it just reminds me of Einstein being a patent clerk. Brilliant people doing odd jobs is always a little mind blowing
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@dafyre said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@wirestyle22 said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@WrCombs Brownie points acquired. I think you might unlock an achievement.
This just made me LOL literally. Getting a weird look from random Developer across the desk from me (no idea who he is).
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@Minion-Queen just say "Memes" he'll understand
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@Minion-Queen said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@dafyre said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@wirestyle22 said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@WrCombs Brownie points acquired. I think you might unlock an achievement.
This just made me LOL literally. Getting a weird look from random Developer across the desk from me (no idea who he is).
that is awesome!
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Still have the key ring I carried. So let me know if you ever need into an alarm panel.
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First full time job I had was being put in charge of cleaning up and managing a retail store database of over 100,000 DVD, Video Game, and Music titles while I was in college. I started writing code to make work easier, then slowly started cleaning up networks and eventually was put in charge of all things IT. By the time I left we had over 45 stores, and a PCI compliant hub and spoke network between them all.
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First "job" was at thirteen years old as an intern for Eastman Kodak in software engineering.
First non-intern job was for Kettering University as a programmer at eighteen.
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I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
I don't recall when, but some time later I rebuilt a complete PC network Win 95 for a non profit.
First full time job was bench tech support at nights for a West Teleservices.
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@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
Were you unpaid and mentored and the word was like homework? Or was it paid, you were expected to know what you were doing and they actually used the software?
What is and isn't interning is normally pretty clear (at least when you are actually doing it.)
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Configuring MAXBOX 2000 modem banks for a tri-state telecom based in New England.
They also sold "beepers" -
Worked as "Hardware Engineer"
In a small shop in my home town who assembles PCs and sell to home customers. Home delivery and install Windows (and games for kids!) -
@StrongBad said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
Were you unpaid and mentored and the word was like homework? Or was it paid, you were expected to know what you were doing and they actually used the software?
What is and isn't interning is normally pretty clear (at least when you are actually doing it.)
I was paid, and my output was used to collect data from from at least one class that the survey was created for.
Interns don't have to be unpaid.
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@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
Interns don't have to be unpaid.
But they do have to have a mentor.
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First IT job is hazy, ive been fixing computers since I was 13. I guess my first major one was working for Solectron Global Services (Bought By Flextronics). Started off as Sony Laptop Warranty Repair, moved to "Recovery" department due to my 1337 DOS skills haha. I did a lot there, learned how to repair lcd panels (clean room), performed BGA tap testing on motherboards, parts testing and inspection, and resoldering some parts. Promoted to TL and built up the Sony Recovery department, organization, and SOPs.
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First actual job was LuK, Inc. as a Co-op (kinda like an internship without a mentor). Worked on the Y2K project, and got hired full time once I graduated from college. IT wasn't disjointed, dysfunctional, and generally incompetent.
Couple fun stories.
When I started as a Co-op, the project they had me working on was creating a system image for the latest desktops being rolled out, and adding or replacing 350 Compaqs. They were using NT, but the computers were all being delivered with ME. Told them they weren't properly licensed, two years latter they actually fixed the licensing issue. Didn't CYA/document that one, would know better today.
The other one was the sorry state of the servers they were running the company on. Something like 40 Windows NT servers, many of them just old desktops. During the Y2K "event", one of the repurposed desktops never came back up. It just happened to be one of the old desktops I had replaced, and I knew we had 200 of those exact same boxes sitting in a storage room. So I go grab one of the now spare boxes and get the oddball adapter installed for the cd tower it ran. Boots up, it's looking good, and I ask where the software they used for sharing the cd drives with was? Everyone's in utter panic because they can't find it. So I look where nobody else thought to look, in the floppies. Ta-da, we're good to go. Why they had no backup and no system image for that thing, I'll never know.
That was the time the main file server never fully rebooted. That was a fun one. The main file server never made it back to a desktop, but was serving files on the network. It ran like that for over a year.
Yeah, thankful I'm not still around that cluster.
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IT in any sense of the word, and being used loosely? A technician at a local retailer. First REAL IT job? Was half of a two-man team at a bond-trading desk. Got to learn about ESXi, Windows Server, AD, GPO, FINRA compliance, and a bunch of other stuff. I just had lunch with my old boss a couple weeks ago. We work in the same building yet again, but different companies and different towers, but same location.
