Weird Entry Level Position Question

hell911

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but which Networking entry level position requires very little human interaction?

Deathmage

hell911 wrote: »

Sorry if this question sounds stupid, but which Networking entry level position requires very little human interaction?

rofl - Ironically all people in IT would love to be a hermit but 99% of the time its unavoidable....

networker050184

Most entry level stuff requires more human interaction than the more experienced roles. Working in a NOC would probably be your best bet, but still going to be quite a bit of human interaction. Just usually not with external customers. To get NOC jobs most people start out in something like help desk or customer support that does require a lot of interaction though.

hell911

Oh well, seems like it really is unavoidable.

markulous

What is your reasoning?

The days of the anti-social and rude IT person are behind us. Unless you're a technical savant that is going to come up with some great innovations, companies realize that technical skills can be learned and that the soft-skills are fairly important.

fredrikjj

Entry level networking positions don't have a lot of customer interaction in my (albeit limited) experience. You'll interact with your team, but it's unlikely that you'll present solutions to customers (or internal managers) or do things of that nature. I did stuff like racking gear, solving support tickets, deploying IP phones, etc. Entry level support for a large campus basically.

sizeon

Why do people want to shy away from human interaction? Don't you get lonely?

JDMurray

I think software development is the profession where people leave you alone and just let you work (hopefully). If you interview for a software job and the hiring manager uses terms like "agile projects," "online collaboration," and "pair programming" then you'll never be alone.

Michael2

Sadly, there isn't a networking position that fits your requirements. All networking positions require 100% human interaction all the time.

Russell77

You might try overnight operator type positions. Performing backups and that type of thing.

N2IT

Good call Russell. I agree 3rd shift network operations for a mid size company with a data center.

Polynomial

You may want to consider another field.

IT is now about dealing with people: Salesforce | ZDNet

Cert Poor

sizeon wrote: »

Why do people want to shy away from human interaction? Don't you get lonely?

I've been on one extreme before, where I've had meetings from 9-5 but since I was in meetings all day I wasn't able to address outstanding tickets and outages. Some companies are truly understaffed.

I also went from Service Desk to a System Admin role, but people didn't like the new Service Desk employees and remember me being very helpful, so they would cut ahead in line and instead call or e-mail me directly with problems (or even walk up to my office!) which would take me off task all day.

So we had a Service Desk of 4-6 people sitting idle while I was getting distracted nonstop and couldn't do my own job at all. Total nightmare.

I guess some of us only like necessary human interaction in order to do our jobs but we don't like excessive human interaction that prevents us from getting any work done for the company at all.