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    keenonkeenon Member Posts: 1,922 ■■■■□□□□□□
    about 11-12 yrs. started off on the mcse on nt4 track and rolled into cisco in 2002
    Become the stainless steel sharp knife in a drawer full of rusty spoons
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    bertiebbertieb Member Posts: 1,031 ■■■■■■□□□□
    Very nearly 12 years.

    Yikes, how did that happen!?
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    VAHokie56VAHokie56 Member Posts: 783
    A little over 3 years I cant imagine doing anything else. I have absolutely no problem going to work in the mornings. Great good, good people excellent learning opportunity's everyday
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    vColevCole Member Posts: 1,573 ■■■■■■■□□□
    Started in Dec 2007. So about 3 years and 5 months.
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    ClaymooreClaymoore Member Posts: 1,637
    Good to see there are a few of us old guys hanging out here. I'm at 18 years experience and counting.

    First IT job was the summer after my freshman year of college in 1993. I just fell into it by working a temp gig pushing papers while I was waiting for the pools to open so I could go be a lifeguard. The temp gig paid better with more hours and before long I was working with the IT contractor running a DOS database on a few 486s that we updated with LapLink a couple times a day to keep in order track of about $5 billion worth of loan documentation. Really putting those biochemistry classes to good use.

    More IT summer jobs followed before moving into sales and then support. Got my first Novell admin job in 98 and passed my first MS exam that year. Switched to MS and got my MCSE in 1999. A series of contract, admin and consulting jobs, one layoff and one relocation got me where I am today.
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    _Marauder_Marauder Member Posts: 132 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I worked desktop support for a small company from 99-00 and then joined the military for 5yrs. Since then I have been working in the IT field professionally since 2008.
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    instant000instant000 Member Posts: 1,745
    Total 11.

    6 years U.S. Army
    4 years, 11 months private sector
    3 Months DoD contracting.
    Currently Working: CCIE R&S
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    Alif_Sadida_EkinAlif_Sadida_Ekin Member Posts: 341 ■■■■□□□□□□
    About 4.5 years.

    3 months: IT Support Technician for a small IT consultant firm. Did outsourced desktop support and systems administration for local small businesses.

    2.5 years:Technical Specialist for a very large bank. Tech support for their business banking software, product QA, and webinar trainings.

    1.5 years: System Administrator for a very large publishing company. Managed and supported all the servers that housed our internal enterprise applications. Did ETL development and workflow automation with a specific tool that I gained a ton of experience from which led me to my current job.

    2 months (current): Senior Support Engineer for an opensource business intelligence software company. I love it here.
    AWS: Solutions Architect Associate, MCSA, MCTS, CIW Professional, A+, Network+, Security+, Project+

    BS, Information Technology
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    jtoastjtoast Member Posts: 226
    It depends on how you define IT experience. I got my first job in a "real" IT shop in 2005.

    Prior to that was about 5 years of technical phone support(Directv, cellular web support for Sprint, Chase Manhattan banks website) and 4 years of off and on contract work trying to gain experience.
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    pizzaboypizzaboy Member Posts: 244 ■■■□□□□□□□
    5.5 years in total

    First 3 years - application/desktop support
    Last 2.5 years - application/desktop/server/network support
    God deserves my best
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    kaigeikaigei Member Posts: 21 ■□□□□□□□□□
    27 years and counting. Servicing and installing IBM System 34, 36, 38, AS400, all manner workstations, Point of Sale, networks, help desk, all sorts of fun stuff over the past years.

    Anyone remember 9 track tape drives? 8 in floppy disk the terms NRZI and Winchester drives?
    Certifications that I am working on
    Project+
    70-680
    70-685
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    the_Grinchthe_Grinch Member Posts: 4,165 ■■■■■■■■■■
    3 years, all helpdesk/support related. Skies are opening up as I might be getting out of the helpdesk and on with a new company...here's to hoping!
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    MishraMishra Member Posts: 2,468 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Professionally, 8 years.
    My blog http://www.calegp.com

    You may learn something!
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    docricedocrice Member Posts: 1,706 ■■■■■■■■■■
    Counting my early beginnings setting up basic PCs for an office, I'm at roughly 14 years at this point.
    Hopefully-useful stuff I've written: http://kimiushida.com/bitsandpieces/articles/
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