[olug] Finally, geek for a living

[Kris Gainsforth]

I'm doing helldesk for Alltel in Lincoln.  It's the only tech related
job I could find down here, so I took it.  The hours stink, but the pay
scale isn't bad for entry level.  While I work on a degree, it basically
pays the bills, and I got lucky and have a pretty laid back supervisor
as well.


On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 02:20, Scott Evans wrote:
> I hear ya on the "you may have to be willing to do
> some
> > pathetic job to get by while you look" comment.
> 
> I am currently a manager at the Subway in Elkhorn. It
> sucks, but it pays the bills and you cant beat the
> free food ;)
> 
> Currently Studing for my CCNA, and I dont have much
> real world experience (besides my Cisco Lab and Linux
> boxes at home).  So its going to be a tough fight to
> find a decent IT job around here.
> 
> Thats just my to cents
> 
> Scott
> --- Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I did the tech support thing at West for a
> > while... Not a good thing for someone with
> > allergies,
> > I found myself losing my voice talking so much on
> > the
> > phone....
> > But you've got to HAVE a job to GET one, so I had no
> > problem doing the customer service job I'm doing; I
> > was even referred by my current employer to my
> > future
> > one.
> > So long as I can keep busy, I'll be in good shape. 
> > Been so underpaid for so long that I'll probably
> > still
> > have to do the bankruptcy thing to catch back up to
> > where I used to be...
> > For those of you looking, make sure you have a good
> > resume and you may have to be willing to do some
> > pathetic job to get by while you look, but it sure
> > beats sitting around the house doing nothing.
> > At least, most of the time...
> > --- shaughn at emosai.net wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, good job / luck! I recently got layed off
> > from
> > > doing tech work /
> > > webmaster. Only problem is this town pretty much
> > HAS
> > > no other computer
> > > jobs. I could do phone support for 6 dollars an
> > > hour.
> > > 
> > > don't know why i replied, just congrads!
> > > 
> > > > Well, 2 weeks from now I'll be back to being a
> > > geek
> > > > for a living.  Have been doing jobs for a while
> > > that
> > > > have not even approached using my
> > troubleshooting
> > > and
> > > > server skills; right now I'm in a customer
> > service
> > > > job... it's money...
> > > > Only thing w/this new job is there will be more
> > > > window$ server stuff to learn; I've run a lot
> > > under
> > > > Linux, which so far as I've seen is typically
> > more
> > > > difficult; Ive gotten used to having to edit
> > files
> > > in
> > > > vi, and doing "make install", as opposed to
> > point
> > > and
> > > > click.  Hope I can get used to the easy stuff :)
> > > > Now, if they would only pay me more like
> > > $30/hr....
> > > > But not in today's market.
> > > >
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