Any of you guys here in IT field?

[fastbilly1]

My primary position at work is an assistant sales manager, however my secondary role (since I have been here so long) is Backup NOC manager during disasters. So when there is a disaster, be it natural or manmade, I get to manage a telephony and internet network for most of a state. Its an odd position I fell into since I got snowed into the old office, which the NOC was attached to, years ago and had to do the real managers job via telephone. Its not a terribly complicated system, you just have to balance loads so the nodes dont get overworked. Honestly it is kinda like playing a Pipe Dream. So while it is technically an IT field, I dont think we have the same kind of issues to swap fixes for...

The actual IT at my company are fine folks, but the rules put down from corporate are a joke. They randomly block gaming sites, but keep Facebook open for most of the general staff. Corporate mandated that we all have the same background on our pcs and that we have to have shortcuts for ALL Office products on our desktop (that are uneraseable). Yes that means I have 12 shortcuts on my desktop I cannot erase. As someone who uses his desktop alot, well lets just say it drives me up the wall. Officially I am only supposed to have one monitor aswell, but I have two (the second rotates to boot) but thats because when I transferred from Atlanta I took everything with me.

In Daves terms:
Ive lost the bleeps, the sweeps, and the creeps

[Dakinggamer87]

Systems/Network Admin. engineer for a data storage company in the Silicon Valley!!

[RetroVision]

Had to share...it doesn't apply to all IT guys....but some totally fit this profile...

[RetroVision]

Systems/Network Admin. engineer for a data storage company in the Silicon Valley!!

Which company? I work for a company that sells visual effects, 3D animation and editorial platforms like Avid, Autodesk and Adobe. We sell Spectralogic, Isilon/EMC, Datadirect, Quantum, etc, etc.

[samsonlonghair]

I don't know if I'd call myself IT exactly. I'm sort of a Jack of all trades. If it's in computers, multimedia, broadcast, art, or design, I can do it.

I have worked many IT jobs over the last five years. Currently I work in web services at a local University. I just built my first wordpress server this week. Exciting stuff. I also do a lot of work to update the website.

Just for fun, I thought I might share a work order I received today. Bear in mind this was written by a professor with a PhD:

like to make a couple of changes to our current XxXxxx Scholars website (1) under "Our Staff" I would like for you to delete Xxxx Xxxxxx as he no longer works in our office, and (2) I would like to add a "button" (under Xxxxxx X. XxXxxx/above Undergraduate research day) labeled 'Xxxxxx XxXxxx research Journal' such that one could click on this title and then a list of the various volumes would appear and then you could click on one of the volume numbers/dates and the research journal would appear so that people could read the research articles of our former XxXxxx Scholars. I currently only have one volume ready to be posted: Volume 14 - 2011, but should have some additional volumes ready soon. If you need further help with this request feel free to contact me at xXXXX and I will also happily send you the MS Word file that volume 14 is saved as as well.

(Names have been removed to protect the innocent.)

[deathsled]

I've been doing IT work since I was in high school. Worked for my college in their IT department. Worked at Cisco for 5 years after college providing internal support for various projects and technology. Now I work for a smaller company as a network/system admin on a very small team as well as perform as front line support/help desk.

Apparently I'm good at helping people.

[Dakinggamer87]

Now I work for a smaller company as a network/system admin on a very small team as well as perform as front line support/help desk.

My job is very similar

[ExedExes]

Had to share...it doesn't apply to all IT guys....but some totally fit this profile...

Don't give away our trade secrets like that!

(freelance computer-repair guy here, myself)

[gtmtnbiker]

Had to share...it doesn't apply to all IT guys....but some totally fit this profile...

You would be surprised how many people don't bother to Google and attempt to solve their own issues. The IT department at my company seems to have the propensity to spend lots of money on software/hardware/consultants and in the end, many of the apps they deploy outright suck. When we have problems with our hardware, we often try to figure it out/fix it ourselves. Their scripting ability is lousy. Too many times they do stuff by hand instead of writing scripts to automate things.

[sosoyo180]

I shadowed someone in IT for a school project a while back, I guess that sort of counts.