What was your first IT job?

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  • marco71marco71 Member Posts: 152 ■■■□□□□□□□
    eMeS wrote:
    ...This was in 1988 and I was 17 years old...
    MS
    Your age is same as mine, I'm also born in '71 (sept -Libra sign) ;)

    My first job was in faculty, in 1994, as network tech. admin for a Novell Network (one 386SX Netware v2.2 non-dedicated server and eight 286 diskless workstations) icon_cool.gif
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  • jmanrtajmanrta Member Posts: 66 ■■□□□□□□□□
    My first gig was an unpaid internship at a school district as network technican. I worked with active directory, Norton Ghost, exchange, cisco routers, and did hardware/software troubleshooting. I was 22 back then. My first W-2 was a technical coordinator for an after-school prorgam. There I maintained there PC's, troubleshooted, deployed, tauight students computer skills, and even got to setup a small linux server.


    I was 5 in 1988.
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  • jbrown414jbrown414 Member Posts: 230
    supertechCETma wrote:
    In 1985 I got a job supporting a mainframe running a high speed manufacuring plant. 8 in. floppies, Diablo disk drive, maxed at 256K of memory, 4 - 4 bit processors, 12 MHz.

    I was 30. icon_cool.gif

    Wow. Someone is "experienced". bowing.gif
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  • coax31coax31 Member Posts: 117 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Joined the IT world at the tail end of the tech bubble, March of 2000 I got a help desk job at Rhythms Net Connections which was a DSL company. They started me out at 34k/year and a year and half later I was making 42k icon_evil.gif when the senior execs jumped with their golden parachutes while the company went chapter 11 and decided they no longer needed my services along with 900 others.
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  • RD28327RD28327 Member Posts: 79 ■■■□□□□□□□
    30 years old doing first level hardware support at IBM in RTP, NC. Mostly phone work, but, I got my foot in the door. Now 45 and trying to get back inside after having a heart attack seven years ago. Have worked contracts and projects off and on, just wish I could stick around somewhere.
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  • coax31coax31 Member Posts: 117 ■■■□□□□□□□
    RD28327 wrote:
    30 years old doing first level hardware support at IBM in RTP, NC. Mostly phone work, but, I got my foot in the door. Now 45 and trying to get back inside after having a heart attack seven years ago. Have worked contracts and projects off and on, just wish I could stick around somewhere.
    Good luck to you, glad to hear you survived.
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  • perseu79perseu79 Member Posts: 16 ■□□□□□□□□□
    My first Job was Help Desk outsourching to small company , I had to go to several companies to make maintnences and solve many problems between user - PC icon_wink.gif
    Chaider do Vale Lima
    Rio de Janeiro - Brazil
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  • networker050184networker050184 Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
    Mrock4 wrote:
    Network tech...army. I couldn't find work to save my life without any prior experience. Thankfully things worked out well, and now I have a lot of very good experience I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I have done full installs from scratch, worked with foundry, cisco, desktop troubleshooting, dealt with line-of-sight systems (Orthogon, Redline), satellites, fiber. If I hadn't joined, I'd be answering phones right now. Not for everybody, but my situation was OK.

    Same here except I joined because I was tired of school and wanted to get away. A lot of great experience to be had in the military.
    An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made.
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  • NightShade1NightShade1 Member Posts: 433 ■■■□□□□□□□
    In a ISP as a Network Operation Center Tech Level2

    Yeah i started as a level2 icon_rolleyes.gif maybe my knowledge in the interview surpriced them!! haha just kidding... but i don tknow why i was hired as a L2.
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  • bjaxxbjaxx Member Posts: 217
    NightShade1 wrote:
    In a ISP as a Network Operation Center Tech Level2

    Yeah i started as a level2 icon_rolleyes.gif maybe my knowledge in the interview surpriced them!! haha just kidding... but i don tknow why i was hired as a L2.

    I was 22, worked fo totally awesome computers - pc tech.

    we answered the phone like this? totally awesome computers where we do anything because we love you?

    yeah I know - terrible!
    "You have to hate to lose more than you love to win"
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  • bighuskerbighusker Member Posts: 147
    I worked in a small computer repair store for $8/hour. I was 20 years old, and I got the job because I had a friend who worked there. I could only handle that crap for a couple months and eventually quit. My next job was working help desk at an insurance company for $12/hour. I eventually got promoted to system administrator before I left for a web development job. My first job sucked, but it got my foot in the door.
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  • Mmartin_47Mmartin_47 Member Posts: 430
    No one wants to hire me. I'm 20. =(
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  • NightShade1NightShade1 Member Posts: 433 ■■■□□□□□□□
    Mmartin_47 wrote:
    No one wants to hire me. I'm 20. =(
    I was in there mate...
    But then got a good job as you saw as my first job so dont worry man it will come...
    i actually was looking for a job for like 5 months and nothing...
    When i started on that job... i started getting other offers.... jeez why its always like that..
    When you don thave nothing... noone wants you... but when you get a job then eveyrone wants you....

    Same with girls
    When you don thave a GF none wants you but when you get one all of them wants you!!
    FFS!!!! life heh... funny tho...
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