Any other IT support chads here sick of reading all these threads from sweaty virgin 'programmers'?

Have fun telling Edna how to open outlook for the third time today while I build the software you have to teach people to use.

>IT support
Yikes

yo, IT guy, can you fix the air con?
it's fucking hot here.

Have fun telling your co-codemonkey how to write to a text file for the third time today while I chill in the server room and kill random processes on your box remotely.

Imagine having a job where your sole purpose is to RTFM to other people. I make the manuals you read.

>I make the manuals you read

What sort of shitty place do you work that doesn't have dedicated tech writers?

The same shitty place where you pay people to tell other people how to open word.

>chill in the server room

t. never seen a datacenter from the outside

if IT support could read error logs we wouldn't have to.

I fucking wish I could code. Basic java and decent Powershell is all I've got. Stuck at sys admin pay grade and programmers with automate me out of a profession soon enough

Sounds to me like you work for some really shitty company. Are you a shitty coder too?
I'm guessing the manuals you write go something like
>System Requirements
>Win 98 SE. No other OS supported.
>All users must be members of the 'Domain Administrators' group.
>Requires 256GB of RAM, 4 SQL instances and a raspberry pi
>No msi installer will be made available

become a cloud engineer?

what's holding you back?

I'd you're so smart then you can look at the codebase and figure it out (v:

just learn to write bash scripts, it's stupid easy and you'll be on the coders level

This. I don't even work. I just read shit all day and occasionally restart some service. Getting paid to chill. Imagine being a programmer. Slaving away writing boring shit all day every day. LMAO

what are you?

Learn then? It's really not that hard... also the sys admin profession isn't going anywhere, it's just changing.
People have been saying since 1983 that server/network admins will be out of a job in the next 5 years.

>Check out shitty code in /tmp/importantstuffdonotdelete/
>Variables are defined as a$, b$, c$, etc. in order, with no comments
>It's a fucking mess of jumps, loops, and GOTO statements.
>The only comments in the entire code are those that remain from copying and pasting from Stack Overflow

To tell the truth, the vast majority of 'IT support' would make better codemonkeys than most codemonkeys.

IT is like the nurses of Tech

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Pic related.

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I've lost count of all the babes I've cornered in the server room. It's a good thing that area is cooled because things get very hot in there if you know what I mean.

it sounds like you're talking about bash scripts that were hacked together because a sysadmin didn't do their job right

>it sounds like you're talking about bash scripts that were hacked together because a codemonkey doesn't know how to work Wix and handed off a steaming pile of shit to ops.

>Im learning programming
>Tired of being the unthanked servant

i have some bad news for you

>boss hired a dba
>boss expected him to do some tunning on query
>couldn't write a single query
>only have query he found in the web
>boss fired him

god i wish i were happy

>tfw you reach to unplug a WiFi cable from a switch and your extra tight shirt rips due to your immense muscle mass flexing

every time

>Im learning programming to gtfo of IT
...
>Tired of being the unthanked servant

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God I wish I where you.

What career do I have to get to land a job which lets me stay all day at the server room and helping Stacys with their laptop

>im in ur base killing ur doodz

>sharted on the power cable again

I fucked up lads

It's just bait from the IT guys. Either way you'll be a slave and no Stacy is going to want to fuck you.

L3/infrastructure administration is where the true chads work.
>all the grunt work gets handed to the L1 and L2
>in-depth knowledge about the workings of a company's infrastructure, practically impossible for you to get fired since you're the only one who knows how everything works
>programming is an incredibly basic skill that a pajeet/slav could do for half the price, infrastructure-level knowledge is something that can't be outsourced that easily
>have full access to everything, could probably get the CEO fired with all the dirt you can collect on him, you are the one who is truly has all the power
>able to do a lot of your work remotely, can either work from home or work from a sunny beach house that you bought with the huge wages that you have earned

Don't do IT for a corporation user. Honestly, you work around the clock, no one appreciates you, stacies will think you're a weirdo, you get a shit office (usually in a basement), and you get the blame when anything goes wrong even though you work around the clock to keep everything else working.

You won't have time to go to the gym and be a chad.

I'll tell you what you should do though, be an IT consultant. Make more money, get to tell customers to fuck off if they're being dumb. Make your own hours. I get to go to the gym every day and I make way more money than your regular community college IT student.

>Cornered and not fucked
So you have 50 open sexual harassment claims against you and haven't had sex in 10 years?

>Real men fix things.
But you guys fix nothing.
The ones who fix something are craftsman and electronics technicians.
It support is more useless than code monkeys.

>code monkey
>appreciated

"helo, my name is mumbjeet, how can i assist you today?"

sysadmin here
No, we don't look like that unless it's in some shitty company that prides itself on "looking smart".

And no, we don't "fix" things - at least the good sysadmins don't. We fucking control shit and implement it so the retarded level 1-3 support can play wrench monkey.
It's no different to being a team lead of a group of code monkeys.

We're just the people who delegate to the monkeys, be it wrench or code.

Agreed. You can make some serious money if you know how to design/build/administer a large network effectively.
I liked my time working at a combined datacenter/NOC because we got to play with some serious hardware, and I literally never had to fix anyone's personal shit.

There are multiple levels of IT - the guys tweaking BGP for optimal routing flow certainly are "fixing things". The poor sap telling a middle aged HR woman how to use excel is not.

Hmm can't be blaming everything on your lack of ability to read bash scripts.

how does one start a career in IT support?

get as much relevant experience as you can
(telesales, customer service etc)

get a couple of certificates (comptia a+ and maybe a couple of windows ones like some azure or windows servers certificates).

Then apply for IT support entry level positions or internships.

>bragging on a tibetan throat singing board about a job you clearly hate

People will advise you to just get a job in IT support, any job.
Do not do this.

Help desk is a great standing point if it's for business to business or inhouse support.
Business to consumer is bad.
So things like support for a business product like accounting software is fine but not for an IP (please don't ever go into support for an IP, it's next to phone support for the most toxic place).

Depending on how much you know, you can skip getting the comptia A+ (or at least take some sample tests online ot gauge your knowledge). Things like "how many pins does cable X have" isn't important but most everything else is.

Depending on what other jobs you did, you'll have to leverage the customer support aspect and soft skills (seriously, IT in general lacks people with good people skills).

Also you can do what I did about 6 years ago and lie saiyng you work in some sort of a computer shop that's no longer around since it was fowned by a foreigner and he moved back to whatever shithole country exists.
Mine was always: I was 16 and working in an internet cafe/computer repair shop and the guy moved home 5 years later to Indonesia.

Idk i make more money by programming

salaries between programmers and it/infastructure are pretty comparable.

infact i'd dare say IT people are better paid. Maybe not at entry level but at all other levels.
People like network engineers and cloud engineers get paid stupid money.

Imagine being IT support instead of a sysadmin and still thinking you are a chad.

isn't sys admin glorified data entry?

Nope not data entry. Glorified janitor/custodian in a lot of places though

sysadmin is literally the classic "fat guy infront of computer alone" trope though.

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How do I into networking?
I fucking love this shit so much, I think I have more time in Cisco Packet Tracer than my top 1 game on Steam.

>temporary stay in an IT job
>literally just turning things on and off again
>put CD into a box
>wow user, you know how to go through the gui interface and hit okay 10 times? Sugoi.

This is why I love being in IT + programming and not spending a lot of money on shit, jobs are fucking easy and abundant, there's a fuckload of jobs that no one knows how to do even though it's easy as fuck.
Sure, you won't get a lot of money on these jobs, but it's like the commie safety net shit without the commie parts, if you lose your job you can get at least a temp one easily.

put me in the screencap

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Being IT at my company is probably pretty nice. It's pretty much entirely staffed by software and electrical engineers with a few ex-engineer managers.

Big mistake.

>But you guys fix nothing.
say that to my face cunt

i dare ya

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>they think we dont get girls

explain this picture then

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Today I “fixed” a lady’s chrome browser by pressing F11. They think I’m a genius.

>passionate-love-affair-in-the-server-room

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>shell out the big bucks for ccna cert
>look for lowly NOC positions
>climb that ladder with continued cisco + juniper certs
Its really that easy

thats a bit of a pipe dream.
atleast here in the UK you aren't going to find any networking vacancies that aren't asking for previous experience.
most common entry is lateral.
i.e start as L1/Help desk support, then get promoted to L2 then start shilling your network skills hard to anyone who will listen until they start letting you lose on that stuff. If you're with a big company or an IT provider they'll probably have a training/progression route in place. If not, just get as much hands on experience as you can and do what relevant certificates you can in your spare time, then you can start applying for network jobs.

I'm doing door to door sales this summer while in college. Should I put that on my resume when I graduate to show I have people skills, or just leave it off like working fast food?

Include it. Communication and customer service are two of the key skills they are looking for in L1 IT support.

i will add tho, just make it clear in your cover letter why you've included it.

Just become an electrician, desu.

Skinny ties are fucking gay

>say that to my face cunt
Says this. Posts a picture of his arse

LOL

>support
>chad
What are 2 words which should never be used in the same thing?

happen to me all the time when i fix computer.

Is this thread correct? Is IT really much better than developing?

no

Is being an electrician really that much better than being a plumber?
They're different jobs, and they suit different people. There's a reason you can make a lot of money in either, though.

no unironically programming has enormous potential and will never go away, IT is for burnouts who couldnt into non-intro CS courses

Protip: without specialisation you're both pajeets. average engineers are robots. so are IT cucks. You have to learn a niche skill like dev ops (for sys admin faggots) or AI (for neckbeard code types) if you want to make da golds

>namaste, all this dashboard finger fucking is fucking with my yoga pose

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>it support
>chads
in few companies where I worked IT support were some clueless women who knew how to handle you new keyboard/mouse and install Windows/Office

I could literally care less if someone calls me a "pajeet" or "cuck" when I make comfy money working 30 hours a week.

IT has more jobs. Dev has better jobs.

IT is better easier to break into with no experience, but better opportunities later - IT guys can become CTOs, CISOs, management, Infosec, etc.

CS is harder to break into because it has a higher knowledge threshold to start, and also harder to rise up because of higher burn out rates and less business-like work practices.

Dev is like guitar - harder to start, but after four years, people will think ur really gud but you’re really not.

IT is like bass - easier to begin but more impressive and more rare and more in demand the higher up you go.

Either way, the only way to really succeed at either is if you can sing. - or be a handsome normal guy that people want to be around and have a healthy understanding of management and business.

CCNA pretty fucking cheap compared to college

>CCNA R&S
>CompTIA Sec +
>random Azure/AWS cert depending on which company you work for/want to work for

You literally just earned yourself an entire college degree for less than $1000.

This. I work IT and wasn't smart enough for comp sci maths. That said there are good knowledgeable IT guys that can script and automate and then there's the windows server admins who are secretly terrified of exchange and don't know anything about linux/ type 1 hypervisors/ networking/ high availability

Whoa there. That's stuff is IT, comp sci is maths and is a hell of a lot harder. Although the first two years could be compressed into half a year if it wasn't for college semesters being so damn short to suit the staff

Yeah we’re in an IT thread dumbass. And it’s common knowledge that IT is a better field to get into if you didn’t go to college. Easy to pick up than CS but better prospects down the line. See:

Hoo boy are you in for a world of disappointment

it never will