View Poll Results: Would you leave IT if you could
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December 17th, 2004, 10:05 AM
#1
Job part 3
I would leave IT if I could
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December 17th, 2004, 10:18 AM
#2
Registered User
I'm a tech, it's what i know and love. There are other jobs that i would be well suited for, but they would require me to get another degree, and they would be longer hauls that i would not enjoy as much (anyone who knows me has always told me i'd make a good lawyer or a psychiatrist (fancy that an insane person telling people how to become more normal)). So here i am, and i plan on staying. You all can get out, I'll just reap the benefits when the indistry goes through another shortage of skilled professional IT people
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
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December 17th, 2004, 10:26 AM
#3
Originally Posted by Khazad
I'm a tech, it's what i know and love. There are other jobs that i would be well suited for, but they would require me to get another degree, and they would be longer hauls that i would not enjoy as much (anyone who knows me has always told me i'd make a good lawyer or a psychiatrist (fancy that an insane person telling people how to become more normal)). So here i am, and i plan on staying. You all can get out, I'll just reap the benefits when the indistry goes through another shortage of skilled professional IT people
I am good at IT, but I hate people so much, it weighs me down to where I hate computers.
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December 17th, 2004, 10:37 AM
#4
Registered User
it is a hazard of the job, but one i can cope with most days.
Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.
Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War. Emptiness and Fullness
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December 17th, 2004, 11:25 AM
#5
Registered User
There are too many ways to go sideways in this field and just too much to learn to go anyother way.
The Moral Majority is neither.
Master Sargent - WOTPP
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December 17th, 2004, 11:33 AM
#6
Registered User
Originally Posted by Cleetus
I am good at IT, but I hate people so much, it weighs me down to where I hate computers.
Yep, theres alot of days where that seems to happen....
Failure is not an option -- its a "feature" of Windows.
Mama never told me geekhood was gonna be like this....
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December 17th, 2004, 11:37 AM
#7
Honestly I have often thought of finding a shop somewhere and being a bench tech. I enjoy so much working on the computers, troubleshooting, just me and the machine fixing schtuff. But rarely do I get to do that, majority of the time I babysit exucitives and their staffs. Don't get me wrong, I get schmooze, play the politics games and have people eating out of my hand, it just isn't me and weighs me down.
Last job we always had huge roll outs, things always changing, heck 5 guys and 4000 pc's. You didn't babysit there.
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December 17th, 2004, 12:05 PM
#8
Laptops/Notebooks/PDA Mod
Not a bad I idea there Cleet, but I hate dealing with customers worse then I do dealing with users.
I worked for two different shops for the last 12 years, and just went corporate back in March. I love being out of the retail shops, not needing to deal with customers (although the last one had a bench-techs don't interact with customers policy which was cool, but I spent most of my time out of shop onsite anyways, so there was the customers again).
Now that I am in corporate, I love it. I deal with users (our staff), who can be pains at times, but there are two of us here in IT, and he was here first, so he is "in management" and gets to deal with all the bull****, politics, etc, while I just get to fix the hell out of stuff, which is just what I want!
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December 17th, 2004, 12:16 PM
#9
Registered User
Don't see myself leaving the biz anytime soon.
L
Welcome to four more years of the most dangerous presidency in history.
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December 17th, 2004, 12:51 PM
#10
Registered User
Originally Posted by Cleetus
Honestly I have often thought of finding a shop somewhere and being a bench tech...
Yeah, but those jobs only pay like $5 an hour.
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December 17th, 2004, 01:08 PM
#11
Originally Posted by WebHead
Yeah, but those jobs only pay like $5 an hour.
That's why I haven't made a move
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December 17th, 2004, 04:57 PM
#12
Wow, rather suprising results
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December 17th, 2004, 06:43 PM
#13
Registered User
There's no panic like the panic you momentarily feel when you've got
your hand or head stuck in something
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December 17th, 2004, 06:45 PM
#14
Registered User
I want to be a caddie for Tiger Woods.
Dyslexics of the world..UNTIE!
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December 18th, 2004, 01:01 AM
#15
Why leave what I like doing.
Hmmmmm.....back for a while...
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