The IT Technicians at my old High School looked like they had a chill job. What would I need to get that job?

>ITT: pedos and future pedos

IT people at my old highschool were retards, I'm pretty sure they're the principal's NEET family members who were "good at computers".

Imagine how stupid people are on average in industry. How multiply that by 5. Now imagine the fact that these people are in charge of educating children.

people on Jow Forums arent allowed near schools

Looked up IT support jobs.

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ahhh funny man

So you get to sprinkle holy water in the storage array and perform exorcisms on the financials server. Sounds pretty comfy desu.

>Tfw the girls have gym class right outside of your comfy sys-admin lair, so you roll up the blinds for the first time that week

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you sick pedophile

Sounds like some 40k shit.

I'm an IT tech at a school. It's been a great first job, you get to deal with everything due to being understaffed and underfunded.

On the other hand, it's shit because you're understaffed and underfunded. Children are fucking awful too, they break keyboard/mice constantly and monitors fairly commonly.

Yes, I've caught kids watching anime on school computers.

Is this a thing? My office also overlooks gym classes, makes for annoying background noise.

Have you fondled any of the children's balls during penis inspection day?

That's assigned to the sports department.

How did you get it? Did you need any certs?

For you to come up with this thought out of thin air tells us all we need to know about you. Projecting much?

mmmmm children. succulent fragile little bois just ripe for the diddlin' and harvestin'

oh god im gonna faint

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man I fucking hated penis inspection day at school

It's an apprenticeship, I started with nothing and two years later I've got A+/Sec+/Net+ as a part of it. You don't need certs for helpdesk, you get them to escape it.

Sadly all those jobs will be over thanks to AWS

Submit a job application. Have fun with the most boring job on earth trying to prevent kids that are smarter than you from doing the inevitable hacking and porn binges.
The technician at my high school was a plumber that 'wanted to take a break for a few years', the one from my primary school was literally just a NEET until he go the job.

>Sadly
about time help-desk is left to automation

I was pretty fond of it. Gym teacher sandusky really knew how to inspect it.

I've worked in school IT for a couple of years now, and it's pretty great. Huge variety of stuff to do, train staff, work with students, help TAS teachers with arduino shit, AV setup, LMS wrangling etc
>actually getting the job
Express an interest in education. When submitting a cover letter/resume emphasise people, deescalating stressful situations and communication (especially to people of varying digital literacy). If you've worked with children before make sure to mention that.

I am a IT Technician for a school board. These are very hard jobs to get. If you can get one, consider that you won a lottery, because the people in these jobs are mostly lifers and new openings rarely come up.

I will never have a performance review. No one is watching me.

All the other techs are old boomers who are near retirement. They LOVE meetings. Team meetings last 1/2 the day. We have one every 2 weeks. And then there is often another BS meeting that also takes half a day, so usually 1 long ass meeting a week. Boomers love meetings where they go over the same shit over and over again. I enjoy it regardless because its so chill.

We are usually 3-4 years behind on trends, we still have novell too.

They are all into the google chromebook botnet.

if you need certs to escape helpdesk, you're going to be a paper person

They love the meetings the same reason you do
- t.son of boomer who does "meetings" most of day

You don't *need* them to escape, but it gets you through HR.

If HR is so dense that certs are a hard requirement you're going to have a shit time working there.

Doesn't matter if it's a hard req, it's still buzzwords they look for and it'll still get you further than just work experience.

I do IT and infrastructure for a manufacturing company. Way chill job. No boss really cause I report to the CEO. Not much helpdesking either cause I have a 45k per year IT firm that I push all the tedious bullshit to. Mostly end up working on the PLCs for the robots and CNC machines. I write some analytic programs in R from time to time which mine our ERP database for shit that the financial guys find useful. Biggest problem is dealing with the 'sales engineers' when we have to put new hardware in during a construction project. Fuck almost all those goons with a cactus.

Anyway. There are a pile of 'mid size manufacturers' out there. Find someone that pulls in at least 30 million per year. They've probably had homie IT mixed with a remote IT service, however the homie didn't really know what he was doing and the remote management contract has no idea what rs-232/485 is, doesn't touch PLCs, doesn't fix boards and probably won't write custom solutions to weird problems specific to whatever type of thing is being built.

So, these midsize manufacturers really need you but they don't know it yet. Once you let them know, you will be relocated near to some buttfuck nowhere town which is effectively owned by two megacorps (along with a handful of said mid-size manufacturers), you get a nice office where you can build a command center and then everyone leaves you alone to work out hacky fixes for malfunctioning robots and all kinds of other fun things that can kill you if handled improperly.

sounds cozy, does it come with a qt 3d waifu or did you write an R script for a robot to suck your essence

If I wanted to get into this industry, where should I begin? I've done computer diagnostics and repair, but only in a retail scenario. Should I get A+ certified?

IT tech at college are even cooler. get to drive golf carts and make profs with Ph.Ds look like dumbasses in front of the whole class.

I fucking love this comment!!!
It literally describes how boomers like to "work"

>can't we have an absolutely "needed" meeting about some random bullshit to prevent us all from getting tired of the work we have to do?
hahaha
That's pretty much how it works now.
Most meetings are held for killing tome only. And of course, none of the boomers would ever admit it being so.

A+ is good, but you will need to learn Indian and change your name to "Bob from Microsoft"
How are you on the phone?

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Probably a high school diploma and A+ cert, people who go back to work at a high school are usualy lowlifes that failed at life, like guidence counselors.

I was an IT Tech at a college before working for a school board. Honestly the school boards pay better and you have less BS to deal with, and usually a smaller, comfier team.

>learn indian

Have you ever worked in an office? What makes you think HR is so embedded in the day-to-day of your job? Certs absolutely are what HR look for, but once you're in they have little to no say on how IT is run. My only contact with HR is to support them & occasionally facilitate an investigation regarding logs.

A+ is fucking easy. Just do it man, it's like 12 hours of learning

I'm a fucking beast on the phone
What if I've been doing basic computer work for 5 years? Is there that much more to learn?

are you implying 2D children is okay

Maybe my perspective is different because I've only worked at companies with max 50 employees. Where I've worked, HR is 1-2 people, max, and they were much more concerned with hiring well-rounded people than hiring strictly based off of certs. Interviews involve demonstrating knowledge and holding a coherent conversation with a lead tech in the company. In no way does not having a cert disqualify you; Having a 2-3 year gap in employment and acting like an autist might.

But, ymmv, and I can see where much larger companies may set a hard cert requirement because they simply don't have the resources to find out which applicants with no certs are competent.

now imagine:

- supremely shit budget
- tons of red tape
- outdated as hell tech for the large part
- all your (potential) coworkers are dumb as fuck

>now imagine:
>- supremely shit budget
>- tons of red tape
>- outdated as hell tech for the large part
>- all your (potential) coworkers are dumb as fuck
In other words, you won't have that much to do and you'll get to clock in and out 7.5 hrs a day and make higher wages than in the private sector. Sounds like heaven.

Aren't they usually brainlets?

More of just learning industry terms

yes. yes I am

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If you know anything about computers you basically don't even have to do any learning.

It's more along the lines of when problems come up you're not allowed to fix them properly, the red tape defines how you must fix it and not what actually works. You're often a middle man that acts as a body while you call an India call center troubleshooting poorly designed software you aren't allowed access to in any way.

You basically are given a job that does not let you complete the job, but everyone puts heat on you to complete the job.

At my school the IT guys had chill jobs until this absolute shithead with a titanium rod up his ass started working there and ruined everything for them. So what I'm saying is it depends on your coworkers.

It's chill as hell, if you have a Bachelor's in CS in any form you basically have the job. Most guys in school IT have an associates. Be warned starting pay is god awful it's literally teacher pay.

No, you'll have plenty to do, just terrible budgets to work with and be told to "deal with it".

For the record I work in the private sector and maybe work 30 hours a week, if that.

Also,
>make higher wages than in the private sector
lmao, definite no. Average intern or junior in any reasonable metropolitan area will make double what you make, easy. Plus better benefits, retirement, etc. My first internship paid 3x more than the standard IT did at my university. There's no way they can compete.

You can argue year to year for a 1-2% raise, meanwhile 5% yearly raise is standard for me just for CoL, good luck getting that in academia or gov't sector.