Getting Comfortable in a Job
Rearden
Member Posts: 222
I recently started my first 'real' IT job, out of school. I'm working for a managed services provider, dealing with SMBs.
My questions is how do I get comfortable? I'm still in the phase where I'm asking dumb questions because I don't want to mess anything up. It's not that I don't know the answer, it's that now it's on someone's real server, etc.
The funny thing is I've been working on networks and servers for some time now (albeit, as a student) so it shouldn't be this weird. For example, I was setting up a PC today in the lab, installing updates, office, etc. and I actually called someone to find out what to name it instead of just naming it anything and figuring out the real name when I brought it out to the client.
I think I need to screw up something and watch the world not end, with the biggest issue being that I have to fix it. Any thoughts on this weird rant?
My questions is how do I get comfortable? I'm still in the phase where I'm asking dumb questions because I don't want to mess anything up. It's not that I don't know the answer, it's that now it's on someone's real server, etc.
The funny thing is I've been working on networks and servers for some time now (albeit, as a student) so it shouldn't be this weird. For example, I was setting up a PC today in the lab, installing updates, office, etc. and I actually called someone to find out what to name it instead of just naming it anything and figuring out the real name when I brought it out to the client.
I think I need to screw up something and watch the world not end, with the biggest issue being that I have to fix it. Any thoughts on this weird rant?
More systems have been wiped out by admins than any cracker could do in a lifetime.
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tearofs
Member Posts: 112
1, No question is dumb, preventing is ALWAYS better than fixing
2, If thing can be change later, use "common sense" in the 1st place
3, Before you ask for help, use google if available
4, "knowledge base" takes time to build... -
phantasm
Member Posts: 995
I'll tell you what was told to me when I started my first job in a NOC:
"Ask questions, please, because if you don't ask us questions we get scared""No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man." -Heraclitus -
networker050184
Mod Posts: 11,962 Mod
I think I need to screw up something and watch the world not end, with the biggest issue being that I have to fix it.
Thats when I started getting comfortable in my job. I was worried about messing stuff up at first. Once I actually messed stuff up a few times and was able to get it fixed I started feeling a lot more comfortable.An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made. -
Bl8ckr0uter
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1, No question is dumb, preventing is ALWAYS better than fixing
I read something somewhere that said, never be afraid to ask a dumb question - once. Make sure you write down the answers to your questions when you get them.