Your IT Employment

Hi

Here's mine

Infant and Junior school - 4 months

Gap for nearly 2 years

Infant and Junior school - 10 months

Secondary school - 2 years

Local authority - 9 months

Local authority - 6 months

(current) Private sector 2nd Line remote support

Every job had felt like the next step in my career so i have felt very comfortable in each of these positions

Lee H

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garv221

Lee H wrote:

Hi

Here's mine

Infant and Junior school - 4 months

Gap for nearly 2 years

Infant and Junior school - 10 months

Secondary school - 2 years

Local authority - 9 months

Local authority - 6 months

(current) Private sector 2nd Line remote support

Every job had felt like the next step in my career so i have felt very comfortable in each of these positions

Lee H

: Don't get it.

GT-Rob

damn brits

what does infant mean?

nel

damn brits

what does infant mean?

Thinks its the equivalent to kindergarden for those damn canadians

Or is that an american thing?

Lee H

Garv221 wrote

Don't get it.

What dont you get, i am simply asking people to post their IT employment

We can see what qualifications everyone has but not experiance

Both are equally important in IT

If you feel it is imposing then just dont reply

also Infant and Junior in UK is school 4-11 years

Lee H

GT-Rob

^ ah ok, I figured so.

Well I didn't start working until I was 19, so this should be short

1 year before college
none during my short stint at college
3 years afterwards.

Im still a baby.

garv221

Lee H wrote:

Garv221 wrote

Don't get it.

What dont you get, i am simply asking people to post their IT employment

We can see what qualifications everyone has but not experiance

Both are equally important in IT

If you feel it is imposing then just dont reply

also Infant and Junior in UK is school 4-11 years

Lee H

Not imposing. Don't understand the infant, pre-born, short bus, authoritative, secondary stuff. Use to seeing a format describing time periods with job descriptions and their titles.

Silver Bullet

garv221 wrote:

pre-born, short bus

I laughed out loud here.

Daniel333

I don't have the exact dates, but here goes. I only decided to start working with computers in mid-2005. So my experience is not bad given that I did this on a whim less than 3 years ago!

Late 2005 - late 2006; Geek Squad, AM technician
- diagnostic/upgrades/troubleshooting hardware and software
- malware removal
- soho networking
- computer sales ( i handled any business sale of 5+ computers that we'd install)
- some hands on time with 2003 small business
- supporing cert, earned A+

Late 2006 - Mid 2007; Help desk
- support 2000 to XP migration
- support office 2000 - 2003
- support legacy host applications
- support print servers
- Work with vendors for WAN issues
- general active directory use
- supporting cert, earned Net+ and CCNA

Mid 2007 - current; application administrator
- Support multiple CRM applications
- write simple SQL
- Generate crystal reports
- run UAT testing
- backup/restore of SQL servers
- trouble shooting active directory groups
- Handle Outlook distribution lists and public folders
- working on my MCSA and MCP - SQL Server 2005

TechJunky

Internet Phone Support Technician for ISP
Analyst for ISP
Jr. Network Administrator for a contracting company
Network Administrator for IBEW
Systems Administrator for a contracting company/support company

malcybood

Student Helper - 8 months, part time whilst at university (working for university)
1st line support to students, ghosting PCs etc 500 IT user environment

1st line helpdesk support - 4 months
Helpdesk support, IT 800 user environment

Trainee IT Support Eng - 6 months
Mainly first line with some field work desktop support, 800 IT user environment

IT Support Eng - 3 years
Field engineer network/desktop support 2000 IT user environment but approx 250 users in my "patch"

Network Administrator - 4 months (current position)
3rd line LAN/WAN/VOIP support & project work in 2000 IT user environment (1500 of which are VOIP users......and counting!!!)

drainey

2002-2005 Late night/weekend Help Desk at local hospital
2003-2007 PC Systems Specialist (everything IT including phones)
2007-present Network Tech for a managed service provider (whatever the client needs)

Still looking for that pure net admin job. But IT work beat manual labor any (well most any) day.

DMin

I lucked out. 2 years of application support (I got the job because of experience in software support and MS Access design) at a large school district, currently 2 1/2 years as a network administrator at the same school district.

coax31

3/2000 - 8/2001 Level 1 help desk - Rythms Net Connections - chap 11

9/2001 - 2/2007 Level 2 Support/help desk Analyst - Ciber Inc.

3/2007 - present Systems Administrator - Prestige Realty Group LLC.