Took me 9 months but I finally....

RomBUSRomBUS Member Posts: 699 ■■■■□□□□□□
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GOT HIRED!! I will be starting Monday! The position is a Help Desk Analyst (possible moving to Network Tech in the coming months) for an outsourced IT company for not for profits and charter schools around the area and in the city. Starting pay $40k + benefits, the real beauty of it is the office is less than 10 miles away from my house so I don't have to bother commuting via public transportation. I interviewed with them 3 TIMES (once with the CEO so I could tell they liked me) and I got the call after the 3rd interview this afternoon.

I'm so excited and nervous at the same time!
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  • earweedearweed Member Posts: 5,192 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Congrats man! Well done.
    No longer work in IT. Play around with stuff sometimes still and fix stuff for friends and relatives.
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  • citinerdcitinerd Member Posts: 266
    Congrats!!! Don't worry you'll be fine.
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  • erpadminerpadmin Member Posts: 4,165 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Congrats man! icon_thumright.gif
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  • ajmatsonajmatson Member Posts: 289
    Congrats :)
    Working on currently:
    Masters Degree Information Security and Assurance (WGU) / Estimated 06/01/2016
    Next Up: CCNP Routing Exam | Certified Ethical Hacker Exam
    Cisco Lab: ASA 5506-X, GNS3, 1x 2801 Router, 1x 2650XM, 1x 3750-48TS-E switch, 2x 3550 EMI Switches and 1x 2950T swtich.
    Juniper Lab: 1x SRX100H2, 1x J2320 (1GB Flash/1GB RAM, JunOS 11.4R7.5), and 4 JunOS Firefly vSRX Routers in VMWare ESXi 5.1
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  • XcluzivXcluziv Member Posts: 513 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Congrats man!!!!icon_thumright.gif
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  • rogue2shadowrogue2shadow Member Posts: 1,501 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Congrats homie. I know those butterflies haha.
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  • colemiccolemic Member Posts: 1,569 ■■■■■■■□□□
    awesome, congrats!
    Working on: staying alive and staying employed
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  • N2ITN2IT Inactive Imported Users Posts: 7,483 ■■■■■■■■■■
    icon_cheers.gificon_thumright.gif Nice going
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  • kahnkahn Member Posts: 66 ■■□□□□□□□□
    beautiful...congrats mate. I am sure you will be fine.do not worry
    RomBUS wrote: »
    GOT HIRED!! I will be starting Monday!

    So on weekend its good to be drunken_smilie.gificon_lol.gif
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  • EZ21EZ21 Member Posts: 36 ■■□□□□□□□□
    congrats:)
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  • AnonymouseAnonymouse Member Posts: 509 ■■■■□□□□□□
    *highfive*
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  • dynamikdynamik Banned Posts: 12,312 ■■■■■■■■■□
    I thought you were going to say you made a baby. I guess this is good news too, congratulations! ;)
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  • RomBUSRomBUS Member Posts: 699 ■■■■□□□□□□
    dynamik wrote: »
    I thought you were going to say you made a baby. I guess this is good news too, congratulations! ;)

    I LOL'd I just noticed my title too

    Thanks though!
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  • Mojo_666Mojo_666 Member Posts: 438
    Congrats on the new job icon_thumright.gif
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  • bertiebbertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Congrats and good luck in the new job icon_thumright.gif
    The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they are genuine - Abraham Lincoln
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  • PsoasmanPsoasman Member Posts: 2,687 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Congrats!
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  • thenjdukethenjduke Member Posts: 894 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Congrats and well done.
    CCNA, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCDST, MCITP Enterprise Administrator, Working towards Networking BS. CCNP is Next.
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  • tpatt100tpatt100 Member Posts: 2,991 ■■■■■■■■■□
    Good job :)
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  • PlantwizPlantwiz Mod Posts: 5,057 Mod
    Congratulations!
    Plantwiz
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    "Grammar and spelling aren't everything, but this is a forum, not a chat room. You have plenty of time to spell out the word "you", and look just a little bit smarter." by Phaideaux

    ***I'll add you can Capitalize the word 'I' to show a little respect for yourself too.

    'i' before 'e' except after 'c'.... weird?
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  • brad-brad- Member Posts: 1,218
    woohooo!!
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  • veritas_libertasveritas_libertas Member Posts: 5,746 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Congratz!
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  • ssampierssampier Member Posts: 224
    Sweet gig. Teachers, by large, are a hard working bunch; I don't doubt the nonprofit folks would be no different.

    Enjoy your job and "keep on learning".

    Do they provide a company car? Maybe I missed that from your post.
    Future Plans:

    JNCIA Firewall
    CCNA:Security
    CCNP

    More security exams and then the world.
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  • smg1138smg1138 Member Posts: 94 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Congrats! I hope to be joining you soon. I'm just waiting for a background check to clear before it's official. The waiting is the hardest part.
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  • RomBUSRomBUS Member Posts: 699 ■■■■□□□□□□
    ssampier wrote: »
    Sweet gig. Teachers, by large, are a hard working bunch; I don't doubt the nonprofit folks would be no different.

    Enjoy your job and "keep on learning".

    Do they provide a company car? Maybe I missed that from your post.

    No unfortunately they don't provide a company car but they do provide free educations services (learning materials, books, lab work, training vids the works) so I will be sure to soak up as much as possible
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  • mikej412mikej412 Member Posts: 10,086 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Congratulations on the Job!! icon_cheers.gif
    :mike: Cisco Certifications -- Collect the Entire Set!
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  • ssampierssampier Member Posts: 224
    RomBUS wrote: »
    No unfortunately they don't provide a company car but they do provide free educations services (learning materials, books, lab work, training vids the works) so I will be sure to soak up as much as possible

    Training is better than a car. :)

    I just meant transportation when you run around town trying to fix things, unless you can fix everything remotely which would be killer. :)
    Future Plans:

    JNCIA Firewall
    CCNA:Security
    CCNP

    More security exams and then the world.
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  • RockinITRockinIT Member Posts: 14 ■□□□□□□□□□
    Congrats on the hire!
    Courses Completed at WGU:
    Start Date: 10/01/10,
    Courses Required For Me To Graduate WGU with BS - IT: SEC:
    EWB2, BAC1, LAT1, LET1, LUT1, QLC1, QMC1, QLT1, IWC1, IWT1, INC1, INT1, WFV1, TEV1, TTV1, AKV1, GTT1, GUT1, TPV1, ABV1, BGV1, TSV1, WDV1, WSV1, BLV1, MGC1, ORC1, TWA1, CPW4
    Classes Transferred:
    BBC1, LAE1, SSC1, SST1, CLC1
    Certifications Held:
    In progress!
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  • RomBUSRomBUS Member Posts: 699 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Hey all,

    I started this week so I haven't been able to tell you how it was the first day. The first day was very busy for the help desk because we work with a lot of charter schools so school just started this past week. I love the job already, the co-workers are very down to earth and friendly and these guys are smart. The guy that was training taught me a lot of stuff on monitoring (pretty sophisticated monitoring system) and how they go about the process of remote support. About 90% of the support is the use of remote VPN access to the workstation/virtual server so that helps a lot. It is definitely a new and challenging experience for me. I didn't do a lot of work, it was mostly observing how the business operates, and I assisted with some tickets and in-house hardware repairs. This week I start off on my own...hope I do well
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  • rogue2shadowrogue2shadow Member Posts: 1,501 ■■■■■■■■□□
    RomBUS wrote: »
    Hey all,

    I started this week so I haven't been able to tell you how it was the first day. The first day was very busy for the help desk because we work with a lot of charter schools so school just started this past week. I love the job already, the co-workers are very down to earth and friendly and these guys are smart. The guy that was training taught me a lot of stuff on monitoring (pretty sophisticated monitoring system) and how they go about the process of remote support. About 90% of the support is the use of remote VPN access to the workstation/virtual server so that helps a lot. It is definitely a new and challenging experience for me. I didn't do a lot of work, it was mostly observing how the business operates, and I assisted with some tickets and in-house hardware repairs. This week I start off on my own...hope I do well

    Nice update! Congrats on your success :)
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  • giftedwongiftedwon Registered Users Posts: 3 ■□□□□□□□□□
    congrats.. do they pay for you to get more certs while you are there ?
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