How many years of experience you got?

And how you would distributed that experience through area of work?

I got 3 years of experience. In those 3 years of total working experience(yeah not too much), i just have managed Network equipment installation, projects and troubleshooting(routers, switches, Wireless controllers, Firewalls) I have managed servers as well but not that much... for AD, ad replication,DNS DHCP, wsus, gpos,Virtualization with hyper V, but that's it, server is a WAY WAY more than that so that's why i said not too much.

Don't have desktop support experience tho just got like a bit when the part that manage the managed desktop support are really busy sometimes my boss makes me go to the clients if no one else is available and if i don't have too much work... i really don't like that its really boring... but oh well.

How about you?

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higherho

I just recently hit 2 years and 1 week with this company I'm currently with doing Systems Administration work. In this role I'm solely responsible for the SANS, VPN, ASA firewall, Windows 7 migration, Windows 2008R2 migration, security concepts, hardening, Enterprise Virus Scan, HIPS, & Policy Auditor, what a ride . To much for one guy in my opinion (27 servers, 35 developers, four domains).

Total amount of IT experience (if I add the part time jobs during college such as a Network Engineer Assistant and Help Desk support) would be 4 years.

Essendon

Total IT experience is 5 years and a few months, out of which 4 years have been in my current role. I manage:

1. A 60TB backup infrastructure (all by myself).
2. Multiple ESX clusters with over 250 VM's spread over multiple sites (in a team of a few).
3. Any server issues from AD, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Exchange 2010 to hardware failures, firmware upgrades and whatever else on servers.

It's been valuable experience.

Priston

2 years pulling cable
3 months rack and stack

Concerned Water

About 1 year in desktop support. Main focus on PC/Mac/network printer deployments for both City and Schools. Setting devices up to get on the domain and other configuration required. Break fix when not deploying. I deployed so many machines that I'm sick of deployments, but it's better than hell desk. Hopefully this experience and when I gain my CCNA will help me get on to networking.

jamesp1983

8 years this coming October, but I started working on computers when I was about 10. I taught myself how to program when I was 13, and would fix computers for friends when I had the chance. I'm 28 now.

rwmidl

12 years.

2000 - 2007 spent doing help desk/business process etc.
2007 - 2008 help desk with some security
2008 - 2012 Sys Admin and Security (starting 2012 Sr. Windows Admin position)

Geek1969

5 years total next month
18 mth desktop
18 mth sys admin
24 mth net admin

Psoasman

Coming up on 5 years now.

Slowhand

I worked steadily in IT from 2004 through 2009, with lots of consulting gigs and some on-again off-again work before that, as far back as 2000. I've been back at it since last December, so it rounds out to about 10 years, give or take.

N2IT

Coming up on 6 total years. I split my time with non IT related positions.

2 years access control and system adminstration
~2.5 Helpdesk and Deskside
~1.5 Operation and Project Management (IT)

I had "collerateral duties" as well which required some technicial experience. When I was with the DOA and USDA I used SQL/Linux environments for reporting and analysis.

While I was a supply chain analyst for the DOA I used MS SQL, Oracle 8i, and MS Access a lot. Wrote quite a bit of SQL.

With all these included I would estimate 9-10 years total.

TLeTourneau

Started in IT in 1997, so 15 years.

Hypntick

Around 4 years, give or take a month here and there.

NightShade1

15 years? 10 years? heh i know nothing then

alan2308

After 12 years working in electronics, I'm now 4 months into my IT career.

dave330i

19 months.

8 month as Network Systems Administrator
11 month as Windows System Engineer

dead_p00l

15+ years in IT/networking

sidsanders

18 years... which is amazing to me. started as a teen doing work on xt's when they were still useful (haha).

Essendon

dave330i wrote: »

19 months.

8 month as Network Systems Administrator
11 month as Windows System Engineer

Wow, you've done well in 19 months! I thought you had years of experience.

N2IT

Dave on several occasions have shared his path, which I find interesting. He certainly done well for himself. I went from Mainframe and Midranges to helpdesk lol If there is a person here who has done it wrong I am it lol

drkat

Hmm.. small stint in 2000-2001 then finally since 2005 so 7/8 years give or take... professionally atleast

Patel128

As of right now I have 2 years and a few months working in retail, as the tech guy.

SteveO86

1.5 Years Desktop Support -Just a normal PC Tech at your typical Circuit City/Best Buy
1 year Help Desk - Enterprise level help desk
5 Years (and counting) Network Analyst/Engineer

Xcluziv

Professionally, going on 2 years (1.75 yrs)

1 year - System/Business Analysis/QA
9 months - Development, working mainly in Shared Services on Portal Services team creating new applications to aid in business processes. Undertook responsibility for SharePoint platform regarding all architecture, development and administration of application.

Iristheangel

Almost 5 years.
2 years as a Jr Network Engineer for a small company - Everything from building servers, maintaining the data center, deploying new systems, troubleshooting issues, and providing desktop support for end users. Low pay b*tch work but it's a start
2 1/2 years as a Security Access Analyst - Pretty much security admin work. Not as technical as I would like but a lot of policy and procedure writing as well as provisioning, deprovisioning, and modifying access. It was a laid back job that paid for my B.S. and allowed me to have enough stress-free time to study.
3 months - Consulting and contracting work. Everything from end-user support to installing new switches and routers.
0 months - Starting on Tuesday, I'll have a new gig working for a service provider. I'll be doing EVERYTHING from system, server, and networking work. SUPER excited.

joshmadakor

About 5 years. SCCM and other Windows technologies.

tpatt100

Coming up on 13 this fall.

SteveLord

6 years by end of June. Little bit of everything system admin.

bellhead

Over 20 going back to my tech control and crypto comm days in the Navy...

YuckTheFankees

9 months of networking (Cisco/Juniper) and Linux (Red Hat/CentOS/Fedora) experience.

jmritenour

Depending on how liberal you are with what you consider "tech experience", I've got about 13-14 years at this point. I spent the first few as a tech at a mom & pop computer shop, eventually working my way up to the lead tech. That was a fun job, I did mostly desktop support/break-fix kind of stuff, but we also did network/systems administration for a lot of local businesses, and I got my feet wet with Netware & NT4 back then. I wish I would've stuck with that a few more years, TBH.

But then I left to become the in house one man IT staff for a local business. It sounded awesome, and I was promised a lot of things that never came to be. Basically, I was a help desk and web designer, and the pay sucked. I did that for longer than I would've cared to; I was of the mentality that I didn't feel like doing the 90+ minute commute into the DC metro area at that point to get a good job that paid well, so I stuck it out until something better came along. That job was a career killer - if I had stayed at it any longer, I'd probably be out of IT altogether now, I was actually looking at non-tech jobs for a while because I genuinely hated what I was doing.

So then I went back to the basics, and took a job as a support tech for a public school system. It paid way better, and I was having fun again. It wasn't long though, before my supervisor realized I was capable of much more, and moved me up to a co-network administrator role with him.

I did that for I guess 3-4 years, but the problem with school systems is they don't pay that great, and you can only go so far without multiple degrees. So then I moved on again early last year to a systems admin position at a hosting company/MSP, and am moving into an engineering position (finally, I was actually offered it last year) when my back fill starts in a couple weeks.

I wish I could say I had no regrets, but I could be a lot further ahead today if I had made a few different choices in my path. But when you're young and think you know everything, it's easy to make questionable choices, or stay in a bad role for too long. But overall, it's been good - in my various roles over the years, I've learned a little about everything, and a lot about many things.