Mind numbing job

[ßracius]

Until I make a job being a B.A. computer dude I am slugging it out in the trenchs. I take around 40-50 calls a day, when I get home I can bearly play a video game unless I have had three beers and then I start coming around. What about you guys that are doing the same or some of you golden techs that still remember <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0"> the front line days.

[TheLow1]

I am doing the same, I spend my free time studing for my MCSE. I also am thinking about a motorcycle. I hear that it is very relaxing to drive, gets the mind off things.

[Joker1]

Originally posted by TheLow1:
<STRONG>I am doing the same, I spend my free time studing for my MCSE. I also am thinking about a motorcycle. I hear that it is very relaxing to drive, gets the mind off things.</STRONG>

so long as you dont splatter your mind all over the road

[ilovetheusers]

I'm doing this now. I usually have 2 to 3 Martinis per night. I don't mind it but I'd rather be doing desktop or field work. I'm really nice to most people and one of like 3 or 4 competant people where I am so it doesn't behoove anyone to get me into the position I want. I'm not looking at any certs right now, I hate 'em. There are 2 MCSE's I work with that couldn't tell you zip about computers in general. Still, the companies love them. Sigh.

[Milenko]

I used to be the only tech at a local computer shop. Fixing machines, doing phone support, you name it. It royally sucked. As we all know, the general public consists of mostly morons, and I talked to almost all of them on a daily basis.

Now I'm the head technology guru at a local school and it's paradise compared to where I was at last year.

While working at the computer shop I kinda thought I was stuck there cause the computer market is tough here, but I stuck with it and now i'm making twice what I was for doing half the work. So stay with it ya'll!!!! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

[Scuba]

Befor i even started to WORK with computers i used to work the summer picking Abocado's.
We used to pick Avocado during the day and Play Xwing During the night.

When i went to sleap i used to dream of Xwings Flying the Avocado Plant and Blasting the Abocado fruit's on the tree's......

[Carlitos_Way]

Originally posted by Milenko:
<STRONG>I used to be the only tech at a local computer shop. Fixing machines, doing phone support, you name it. It royally sucked. As we all know, the general public consists of mostly morons, and I talked to almost all of them on a daily basis.

Now I'm the head technology guru at a local school and it's paradise compared to where I was at last year.

While working at the computer shop I kinda thought I was stuck there cause the computer market is tough here, but I stuck with it and now i'm making twice what I was for doing half the work. So stay with it ya'll!!!! <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0"></STRONG>

That's great!! Im glad to hear about fellow techies coming up in the world. Hope to be there one day myself...working at a school...where my ex-girlfriend works...cause I still love her...*sob*
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[Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)]

I work a Helpdesk in N.Y.C. First tech job... really cool the first month or so, but mind numbing really fast.

Reset NT password, Outlook personal folder gone,Reset NT password, My mouse is stuck, Reset NT password, the sun is glaring my monitor,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password

waiting for desktop slot to open... should happen soon.

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[WesFlash]

I work Help Desk for a company with offices all over the USA. It is alot of password resets. Then there is the "this thing is so slow" calls in which the user has painstakenly tried to run more background applications than the computer can handle. It reads like a list of programs rarely run, but they had to have it installed. Virus outbreaks are fun because we get to see who the gene pool should put on probation or bar from entering at all.

[Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)]

Virus outbreaks are fun... we just got the "Check this" virus again about a month ago.
Also, someone from our Client/Server unit wrote a script to change user's rights accessing shared network drives... and it back fired. Yesterday, our desk got hundreds of calls from E/U's who couldn't access any of their mapped drives.
Wow... the *&^% hit the fan !!!

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[Lt. Columbo (formally Joevegany@..)]

WesFlash, question:What are you guy making out there on the Helpdesk...
You can E-mail me if you prefer.

Curious.

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[Drone2903]

Originally posted by Joevegany:
<STRONG>...Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password,Reset NT password

waiting for desktop slot to open... should happen soon.

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ROFLMAO.

I'm head of a group responsible of all regular installations. The posted delay between a demand and a installation is 12 days. We average 2. And help desk complains when we cannot reinstall a station within 2 hours. Oh yeah, we have the joy of handling all services calls the desk cant fix:

beside passwords that dont reset, you have:
- word does not work
- mouse "
- Office "
- printer "
- Internet "

THE DESK SOLUTION: FORMAT & REINSTALL THE PC.
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[Asterchild]

Yea! This thread is one of the reasons I finally registered on this forum.

I will not be presumptuous and say that I have you all beat, but I have it bad. I am stuck in the front line trenches. I work at a local Best Buy as an AV/PC tech. I know how people feel about retail techs, but you will have to trust me that I'm competent. The way things are setup is I have no privacy to work. I take technical calls, help customers, help customer service, upgrade and repair things, keep tabs on third party repair, I've figured roughly ten things I have to be doing at any one time. The system BBY has setup drives me to maddness. Every day I bust my *** for measly pay. My job is mind numbing and mind splitting. I've been working at BBY for almost two years, and I get burnt out sometimes. Right now those burnt out days are coming quicker and quicker...nearly everyday now I go home exhausted mentally and emotionally. SPENT. Not the good I accomplished something today, but the SPENT I got nothing done today feeling. Ok enough of my rant. Felt good. Must work through college...must survive. Great thing is I have no idea what I want to do <IMG SRC="smilies/smile.gif" border="0">

--Aster

[Major Kong]

My day job ranks right up there with used kitty litter and navel lint, but it pays real well and the benefits are excellent. My pastime job I love but it pays bupkus, but keeps me out of bars and if I may add with my family! <IMG SRC="smilies/biggrin.gif" border="0">

[CinderElmo]

IT support is like war - hours of mind numbing boredom interspersed with moments of sheer terror and adreneline.

Some days I do nothing but surf, pick up the phone and say "uh huh, did you try rebooting, call me back if that doesn't work (never calls back)", physically walk to the server to "look productive", then go back to surfing. Some days I wonder if my brain isn't going to implode from the mind numbing dullness...but when the paycheque arrives it is ALL better (at least temporarily).

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