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The joys of working in IT
19 years ago
"I have to ask you the same question people back home are asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back? Forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at home."
I guess I might as well break this in, since I need to bitch a bit somewhere.
I finally landed my first real job/contract(that lasted longer than a day) yesterday, as part of a computer migration team. Yesterday went pretty smooth, almost too smooth... well, not today.
First on my way to the site, I almost get in an accident. I was turning right, guy coming the other way was trying to turn left onto the same side of the road. All I can say is thank goodness I had good brakes and good reflexes, since I got away(barely) without a scratch.
Finally I get there, and find that where we should have had 6 people to do 30 computers(we had 4 for 17 yesterday) we had 3. The lead jumped in at least to help us get it done.
Then working on my 7, one of them decides to be ornery and not see the network shares. We eventually got the imaging to work an hour after the other 6 I was doing were done.
THEN when I'm working on setting up the new system for the same person, and go to log into Active Directory for the first time, we find out the person changed their password without notifying anyone, and all the people who could do something about it were gone, so I had to take down the new system and put the old one back up again.
Finally, when I left 2 hours after we were supposed to be done for the day, one guy had 2 computers left(one of which was almsot done at least), another had only 3 of his 7 or so done, and I don't know how many our lead had left. I helped clean up most of the junk though and cart the old systems down to storage before I left.
My feet ache, my back already aches a little, and I know it's going to bug me way worse after I get up. Ah, the joys of IT. Maybe I should have gone into programming like my prof suggested way back when...
At least it's money in the bank. (Once I get the paperwork they sent late filled out anyways >.< )
I finally landed my first real job/contract(that lasted longer than a day) yesterday, as part of a computer migration team. Yesterday went pretty smooth, almost too smooth... well, not today.
First on my way to the site, I almost get in an accident. I was turning right, guy coming the other way was trying to turn left onto the same side of the road. All I can say is thank goodness I had good brakes and good reflexes, since I got away(barely) without a scratch.
Finally I get there, and find that where we should have had 6 people to do 30 computers(we had 4 for 17 yesterday) we had 3. The lead jumped in at least to help us get it done.
Then working on my 7, one of them decides to be ornery and not see the network shares. We eventually got the imaging to work an hour after the other 6 I was doing were done.
THEN when I'm working on setting up the new system for the same person, and go to log into Active Directory for the first time, we find out the person changed their password without notifying anyone, and all the people who could do something about it were gone, so I had to take down the new system and put the old one back up again.
Finally, when I left 2 hours after we were supposed to be done for the day, one guy had 2 computers left(one of which was almsot done at least), another had only 3 of his 7 or so done, and I don't know how many our lead had left. I helped clean up most of the junk though and cart the old systems down to storage before I left.
My feet ache, my back already aches a little, and I know it's going to bug me way worse after I get up. Ah, the joys of IT. Maybe I should have gone into programming like my prof suggested way back when...
At least it's money in the bank. (Once I get the paperwork they sent late filled out anyways >.< )
"No. We have to stay here. And there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes, and - all of this - all of this - was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars."
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This is Day1 on the job eh?. . .