Offered and accepted a new job!

devils_haircut

I don't post a lot on this forum, but I thought I'd share my good news. I recently interviewed for a position as a sort of IT generalist at a local school district in my area. The school actually contracts their IT staff out through a company that handles a lot of the smaller school districts here in Indiana, and that company is who I interviewed with.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I had a very positive feeling about the interview last week, and they called me last night to offer me the position (which I accepted). The actual job title is Desktop Support Technician, but I would be one half of a 2-man team, so I feel like I would be in a good position to get my hands dirty with a lot of different tech. It's a step up from my current contract gig as a Refresh Technician.

Being a school district, the pay isn't terribly high...it's pretty close to what I'm already making, but it's a permanent position versus my current contract job. $32k plus an annual training/certification budget ($500 the first year, $3,000 every year after that), cell phone reimbursement, and the usual perks like 401k, etc. Being that I only started working in IT back in June of 2013, I feel like I'm making good progress and wanted to share the good news. I think one of the great things about this forum is that you can communicate with people from all different aspects and levels of IT that you might not see in your daily career, and the insight gained is invaluable.

Mak0811

Congratulations! Keep working hard and all the best for your future.

stryder144

Congrats! This is exciting news.

maharaliel

Congs and I wish you success in your new job.

Chitownjedi

Congrats

gadav478

Awesome. Hope you get the most from this experience!

coreyb80

Congrats and learn as much as you can.

cyberguypr

Congrats!

Death Dream

Congratz!!!

shyguyIT

Congrats!

joemysterio

congrats! i'm in a similar position at a school district... started as just training, 3 months later, i got thrown into the fire in a systems admin role pretty much... same title at the moment though, IT technician. run with it man, tons of work to get experience!

TLeTourneau

Congratulations!

Dieg0M

Congrats! Keep it up

MAC_Addy

That's great news. I first started off with a school district, too. You'll definitely learn a lot and have tons of work to do.

FloOz

Congrats and goodluck in the new position!

RouteMyPacket

devils_haircut wrote: »

I don't post a lot on this forum, but I thought I'd share my good news. I recently interviewed for a position as a sort of IT generalist at a local school district in my area. The school actually contracts their IT staff out through a company that handles a lot of the smaller school districts here in Indiana, and that company is who I interviewed with.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I had a very positive feeling about the interview last week, and they called me last night to offer me the position (which I accepted). The actual job title is Desktop Support Technician, but I would be one half of a 2-man team, so I feel like I would be in a good position to get my hands dirty with a lot of different tech. It's a step up from my current contract gig as a Refresh Technician.

Being a school district, the pay isn't terribly high...it's pretty close to what I'm already making, but it's a permanent position versus my current contract job. $32k plus an annual training/certification budget ($500 the first year, $3,000 every year after that), cell phone reimbursement, and the usual perks like 401k, etc. Being that I only started working in IT back in June of 2013, I feel like I'm making good progress and wanted to share the good news. I think one of the great things about this forum is that you can communicate with people from all different aspects and levels of IT that you might not see in your daily career, and the insight gained is invaluable.

Congrats! You are on your way, now try to soak it all in and then learn all you can and look for any opportunities to move up to say System Administration.

devils_haircut

^^That's the plan. I have to admit, I was starting to get pretty frustrated with my current position. I was basically bottom of the barrel, and in the cube farm where I worked, I got to overhear quite a few conversations between the more senior Desktop "Engineers", some of whom thought that in order to work around a Windows DEP issue resulting from an outdated website our company uses, you just needed to create a new shortcut on the desktop. I mean, honestly...it's stuff like that every day.

Anyway, I just look at it in a positive light as me putting in my time at the bottom so that one day I'll be charge of guys who make comments like that

Thanks all for the well-wishes.

RockinRobin

Congrats!

bherbie

Congrats!