What was you first IT job user??

Got paid government money to make a raspberry pi track people using Mac addresses, didn't tell them the tech was obsoleted by Android 6

Is uni R&D valid?

>first job
>implying I ever had one
lmao fuck off wagecuck

Doing anything IT-related at a slaughterhouse.

Local municipal township and police department. I actually quite like it.

Help Desk for 3 months for my university, immediately left for an internship that turned into a full time job.

System administrator assistant.

Comcast business help desk
Shit sucked
I'm working shared hosting support now and it's pretty tame

>that 21 year old college dropout who will be making my fries in few years time once mummy gets tired of feeding parasite

>went to a temp agency to apply for some job that didn't require any education
>overheard a conversation that they needed Photoshop expert who could resize images, but didn't know where to find one
>said I could do it
>arrive at the job
>get instructions
>ignore instructions
>run a macro script
>be done in 30 minutes

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Desk dick sucker

>that 25 year old college graduate who's making my fries because he fell for the college meme and will be paying off his student loan debt until he's 40

Rural ISP tier 1 tech support and computer repair with a little level 2 network troubleshooting. Now, I work in a NOC as a level 2 analyst in a multi state fiber network that spans the midwest, northwest, and south eastern US.

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>Topdesk
What a piece of shit software.
Also. Since this software isn't used a lot and it is used at my college and part of finals today I somehow suspect OP is from the same college as me.

Could you do that with one liner in ImageMagick?

There’s probably some bullshit name for it like workflow automation software development, but I wrote code to make a stupid form line up on dot matrix printers. It was a stupid job so I quit.

so you cheated yourself out of money?

You're seeking attention on an anonymous imageboard, that's pretty sad. Fuck off into a ditch

>doing less work for the same pay is bad

Temp agency help desk job.

B8td incels

managed the computer lab in my dorm freshman year of university. Also had to manage repair tickets that were mostly people trying to plug ethernet cables into phone jacks
also did some contract work for my father's IT company when they needed some extra hands, but that doesn't count

First (and only) job was working in high schools. I've seen some shit.

holy shit it must suck being this mentally ill

>start college a few years ago
>ff to today
>$2000 in debt
>working as an it ecommerce intern at cooperate hq for a multi billion dollar cooperation
>gonna make $5k after taxes during the summer which will pay off all my debt
>graduate in fall

But you know, college is a meme

"Analyst"
>show up to work
>meetings all morning
>review some logs
>send emails
>make notes for next meeting
>go home
Pretty comfy. I miss those days. I'm up in hiring and management now and it's 90% paperwork and dealing with social problems.

i was about to get my first IT job but it turned out that the hiring manager jerked me around for 3 weeks for a position that was already filled and she didn't have approval to hire a second person, which she told me was her plan.

now i'm stuck in a shit engineering job.

First job was Tier 1 Tech support for a larger clothing store (~360 stores). $12/hour but in a small town and was first full time job. I make around 50k/year now doing tech support/sys admin work for a small company. Most of my day is spent watching youtube.

I didn't work in IT. I worked as a computer science tutor.

I work in support to a government agency.

I'm actually a retarded it student.

What do I do if I don't want to do the ticket because the client is a passive aggressive asshole or if they're not responding? Do I just leave it until they decide to get off their ass and answer the basic questions I ask them?

Student programmer on a college campus making shitty CRUD Angular apps or just managing a school website through a CMS. And random helpdesk shit.

It was a nice introduction to a lot of stuff. Wouldn't call it interesting though.

My first IT related job was a Full Stack Web Dev.

Not an amazing salary but a great entry point to where I am today.

I too am a support monkey at an MSP. Wound up needing money really bad out of college and had to get something. Kind of comfy though. Small company so it's not really bad at all.

Tell some stories user.
I'm currently an IT guy at a huge manufacturing plant and am thinking about seeking a tech support position at a school or college.
Is it worth it?
Seems like it would be more fun.

Change the ticket status to 'pending' and write that you're awaiting user response. Or you could always just close it. That always gets them to respond real quick.

IT assistant for my high school's IT dept.

I was terrible at it, and they were assholes that would constantly belittle me. I really only got the job because my mom was a teacher and I used a computer a lot (to play video games).

Now I'm a programmer and it's great!

>2nd year college
>hired as intern in a gambling machine nascent startup (3 employes)
>help along in anything i can, web development, linux development, building the machines themselves, wiring the office, building workstations
>dip my toes into the java codebase, learning as I go
>everything going smoothly
>rockstart leaves
>oops we need this this and this
>try at the best my ADHD allows me
>can't do shit
>get fired

Network assistant for my old high school's network administrator. Fixed the teacher's computers and helped out with a bunch of IT related projects like student tablets and shit. Teachers would worship you for fixing their computers, plus full admin rights on all school computers was pretty great.
Also volunteered at local hospital in the IT&S department. Got to chill in their office while doing the occasional odd jobs like fixing computers and printers, or some random medical tech.

Tier 2 IT at a medical school. Was pretty chill and made me sick of looking at Macs.

Now a full-time contractor doing a piss easy Tier 2 at a hospital. Sat on my ass for 3 months collecting unemployment until I got re-hired for the same recurring position. I don't mind repeating this cycle again but I rather have benefits and be able to call in real PTO instead of calling in sick like a chump

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How can you afford all that hardware?

Repairing phones and laptops for boomers and roasties out the back of my shitbox ute. 90% of my work was connecting $50 inkjet printers to $100 craptop.

Audio transcription for an undisclosed South Australian company.
My brother is a security guard for them, and recommended me. They gave me a shot, and have now been doing this for 14 months.

>gonna
Lmao

tech support calls for Spanish customers

>you're nothing but an it janitor
>you are below the actual janitors
>you're expected to give everyone a shiny new macbook pro on a budget of a few grand
>district it dept will look down on you
>they won't give any tools that would actually make your job easier and instead would rather you elevate tickets
>you're always anxious because any teacher that doesn't like the work you do will complain and schools are afraid of the teacher's union
>said union technically represents you but doesn't give a fuck and won't help you if you need it
>likely shit pay, and shit benefits if any
>everybody is only nice to you because they want upgraded shit first even if the don't need it
>teachers think equipment is "theirs" and will take it home for personal use, and some never bring it back

I'm 21, didn't go to college, and I'm making $55k doing easy ass IT work, not counting benefits.

College is one way to get there. Sounds like you had some extra help though to keep you out of debt.

>no respect for anything, they'll literally watch their snot-nosed brats destroy the computer lab you just set up and expect it to be fixed by next period
>teachers who feel they aren't getting "enough" will hoard equipment for their classroom even if it means someone else gets nothing
>you'll be fixing some of the most archaic tech you can think of, like macs as old as yourself
>absolute resistance to any kind of change
>teachers will buy whatever the fuck they want without regard for compatibility and you have to make it work so all equipment is completely random and you have to maintain entire fucking binders of notes and instructions and software that may or may not be properly licensed
>good luck figuring out what the previous tech did since they had probably given up and left things in disarray
I'll add more as I unrepress these memories. It's fucking insane and burned me out. Work for a private school/college if you can, I've heard the conditions are much better.

Holy fuck did you work for some ghetto school district?

I worked for a public school for 1.5 years, and yeah teachers are bitchy cunts, but we had computers from the correct decade, low pay but good benefits, and our management actually had a spine so we didn't have to bend to every whim of the teachers.

Second largest district in my state, not ghetto but they're a bunch of spineless libshits.

no i'm not in in college, and yes fuck topdesk.
fucking this. Expect the low paying and low budget. We have an IT team of 10 people and a budget of 2 million a year. We order new iPhones every fucking day since everyone need a upgrade every 2 months.

We also have a 'thank you' mailbox. everyone that say thank, you ends up in that box. They better say thank you or the next time they will wait 5 days before we start looking at their ticket

Tech support... ive been here 7 months and i fucking hate it already, people are dumb as fucking shit i hate it.

Honestly sounds like a lot of your problems stem from awful management:

>you're expected to give everyone a shiny new macbook pro on a budget of a few grand
Unable to manage a budget or estimate costs

>they won't give any tools that would actually make your job easier and instead would rather you elevate tickets
Don't understand that investing in better tools allows you to be more productive with the same time

>you're always anxious because any teacher that doesn't like the work you do will complain and schools are afraid of the teacher's union
>said union technically represents you but doesn't give a fuck and won't help you if you need it
We were not under the teacher's union and were not represented by them. If their union isn't retarded they wouldn't waste their political capital on stupid IT problems.

>likely shit pay, and shit benefits if any
Such is public sector life, but in my experience I've seen decent health benefits and a lax vacation policy.

>teachers think equipment is "theirs" and will take it home for personal use, and some never bring it back
>no respect for anything, they'll literally watch their snot-nosed brats destroy the computer lab you just set up and expect it to be fixed by next period
What's mind blowing is that the teachers don't get reprimanded for that. Stealing district property and inability to control their classroom would get them in real hot water, real fast around here.

>you'll be fixing some of the most archaic tech you can think of, like macs as old as yourself
Again, district budget mismanagement

cont.

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>teachers will buy whatever the fuck they want without regard for compatibility and you have to make it work so all equipment is completely random and you have to maintain entire fucking binders of notes and instructions and software that may or may not be properly licensed
We refused to support any IT equipment that we didn't purchase and manage. Teachers were welcome to use whatever they want and connect it to the guest wifi network, but we weren't going to be responding to calls of "muh wal-mart wireless keyboard quit typing make it work pls".

Sorry that your management is a bunch of pushovers to the teacher's union. Yeah we had to do stupid shit all the time because some higher up wanted it, but our IT director actually looked out for us, and not just sucking the teacher's dicks.

programmer at a consulting company

Current job is helpdesk garbage for a hospital. I route tickets and watch YouTube all day. Only $15 an hour but I have literally no qualifications and am 18 years old so I think I'm doing okay.

Complete control over my uni department's (e&ce) server room and security of it
It was literal hell the first 2 weeks but then I learned the ropes and automated everything

Yeah, it's called working and federal subsidies and doing all transferable classes at a community college

>being this new

I worked one month as a tech support agent in a telecom and it made me want to kill myself. Dropped that and next year got a summer internship for .NET. Then got hired by them until I graduate. It's making me want to kill myself again, I tried avoiding webshit so much and now I ended up doing webshit anyways.

IT consultant in IaaS, SaaS, CaaS.

Got hired out of school and put straight in a senior position... It was fucking tough.

>consultant
Gets paid to con and insult people. Nice.

>having a job

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>what was you first IT job user??
CEO

I use IT niggers.

Cyber network specialist in the USMC got out and am currently the network/system adminstrator for a small(ish) company.

rawr x3

>CaaS

cancer as a service, literally WHAT THE FUCK

I only make $43000 a year but I'm coming up on a $10k promotion.

>being such a faggot

whoa there buddy, don't break his bubble.

yes you could

maybe thought it's paid per hour

>Honestly sounds like a lot of your problems stem from awful management
Yeah

>Unable to manage a budget or estimate costs
>Don't understand that investing in better tools allows you to be more productive with the same time
This finally started to change with a new superintendant and a MASSIVE bond that the voters were dumb enough to pass.

>We were not under the teacher's union and were not represented by them. If their union isn't retarded they wouldn't waste their political capital on stupid IT problems.
I think it was just about bargaining position because those of us on the bottom got jack in terms of pay and benefits.

>Such is public sector life, but in my experience I've seen decent health benefits and a lax vacation policy.
I had "vacation" days too, on in-service days. Of course they were unpaid.

>What's mind blowing is that the teachers don't get reprimanded for that. Stealing district property and inability to control their classroom would get them in real hot water, real fast around here.
Sounds great. It would have made me happy to see at least one teacher have to pay for damage they or their students did.

>We refused to support any IT equipment that we didn't purchase and manage. Teachers were welcome to use whatever they want and connect it to the guest wifi network, but we weren't going to be responding to calls of "muh wal-mart wireless keyboard quit typing make it work pls".
At the second school I worked at the administration allowed us to do that because they actually understood what we had to deal with.

>Sorry that your management is a bunch of pushovers to the teacher's union. Yeah we had to do stupid shit all the time because some higher up wanted it, but our IT director actually looked out for us, and not just sucking the teacher's dicks.
Our central IT department was run by a bunch of fuckwits that used their position to disadvantage those of us doing the actual support and believed there was never anything wrong with their work. The times we went around them we were met with hostility in the form of false harassment claims.

Speaking of lunacy, we had weird policies about what the schools vs. the district should pay for. Schools had to buy their own software licenses rather than centralizing purchases, so almost every school and the central office had their own licenses for Adobe software and as a consequence were using different versions, including versions that weren't supported on newer systems. I can't imagine how much was wasted with just Adbobe software. When our new Windows admin started he wanted to have the district buy licenses for Autodesk software and manage it centrally as it should've been. Needless to say, he received a lot of shit for that since everyone was happy with the status quo that enabled them to not actually do much work.

are u fat ?

25B for the US Army

that is my actual nightmare, not the boomers and roasties, the fucking printers connecting to anything

>what was you first IT job user??
Java programmer

It was pretty shit. I was hired for 15 hours a week, but the boss had basically stolen the source code from the company he was fired from before and wanted me to continue development on a massive project of stolen code (the dev team of the other company was 50+ developers or so).

you're doing ok, don't forget to do a little bit of self-improvement/study from time to time

I was running fiber cables in offices for the most part, was pretty fun since you got to see a lot of server rooms.

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some job at a government building when i was 15 through a govt program for teens to get summer jobs
I helped the department in general (administration), copies, fax, scanning, organising, call Linda to tell the papers are with Steve, blah blah
BUT
In the very same office was the IT department consisting of 2 workers, one of which was my father, which I also aided and learned from a lot.
mostly hardware stuff. opening shit up, mounting shit up, listening to people cry about muh printer aint workin and pressing one button to make it work again, going in the server room to cool my coffee

was very good.

>Lmao
Lmao

Tell them you are looking into it and will call them back when you have something.