What was your first IT job?

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What was your first IT job, how old were you and how did you find the job?

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marco71

eMeS wrote:

...This was in 1988 and I was 17 years old...
MS

Your age is same as mine, I'm also born in '71 (sept -Libra sign)

My first job was in faculty, in 1994, as network tech. admin for a Novell Network (one 386SX Netware v2.2 non-dedicated server and eight 286 diskless workstations)

jmanrta

My first gig was an unpaid internship at a school district as network technican. I worked with active directory, Norton Ghost, exchange, cisco routers, and did hardware/software troubleshooting. I was 22 back then. My first W-2 was a technical coordinator for an after-school prorgam. There I maintained there PC's, troubleshooted, deployed, tauight students computer skills, and even got to setup a small linux server.

I was 5 in 1988.

jbrown414

supertechCETma wrote:

In 1985 I got a job supporting a mainframe running a high speed manufacuring plant. 8 in. floppies, Diablo disk drive, maxed at 256K of memory, 4 - 4 bit processors, 12 MHz.

I was 30.

Wow. Someone is "experienced".

coax31

Joined the IT world at the tail end of the tech bubble, March of 2000 I got a help desk job at Rhythms Net Connections which was a DSL company. They started me out at 34k/year and a year and half later I was making 42k

when the senior execs jumped with their golden parachutes while the company went chapter 11 and decided they no longer needed my services along with 900 others.

RD28327

30 years old doing first level hardware support at IBM in RTP, NC. Mostly phone work, but, I got my foot in the door. Now 45 and trying to get back inside after having a heart attack seven years ago. Have worked contracts and projects off and on, just wish I could stick around somewhere.

coax31

RD28327 wrote:

30 years old doing first level hardware support at IBM in RTP, NC. Mostly phone work, but, I got my foot in the door. Now 45 and trying to get back inside after having a heart attack seven years ago. Have worked contracts and projects off and on, just wish I could stick around somewhere.

Good luck to you, glad to hear you survived.

perseu79

My first Job was Help Desk outsourching to small company , I had to go to several companies to make maintnences and solve many problems between user - PC

networker050184

Mrock4 wrote:

Network tech...army. I couldn't find work to save my life without any prior experience. Thankfully things worked out well, and now I have a lot of very good experience I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I have done full installs from scratch, worked with foundry, cisco, desktop troubleshooting, dealt with line-of-sight systems (Orthogon, Redline), satellites, fiber. If I hadn't joined, I'd be answering phones right now. Not for everybody, but my situation was OK.

Same here except I joined because I was tired of school and wanted to get away. A lot of great experience to be had in the military.

NightShade1

In a ISP as a Network Operation Center Tech Level2

Yeah i started as a level2

maybe my knowledge in the interview surpriced them!! haha just kidding... but i don tknow why i was hired as a L2.

bjaxx

NightShade1 wrote:

In a ISP as a Network Operation Center Tech Level2

Yeah i started as a level2 maybe my knowledge in the interview surpriced them!! haha just kidding... but i don tknow why i was hired as a L2.

I was 22, worked fo totally awesome computers - pc tech.

we answered the phone like this? totally awesome computers where we do anything because we love you?

yeah I know - terrible!

bighusker

I worked in a small computer repair store for $8/hour. I was 20 years old, and I got the job because I had a friend who worked there. I could only handle that crap for a couple months and eventually quit. My next job was working help desk at an insurance company for $12/hour. I eventually got promoted to system administrator before I left for a web development job. My first job sucked, but it got my foot in the door.

Mmartin_47

No one wants to hire me. I'm 20. =(

NightShade1

Mmartin_47 wrote:

No one wants to hire me. I'm 20. =(

I was in there mate...
But then got a good job as you saw as my first job so dont worry man it will come...
i actually was looking for a job for like 5 months and nothing...
When i started on that job... i started getting other offers.... jeez why its always like that..
When you don thave nothing... noone wants you... but when you get a job then eveyrone wants you....

Same with girls
When you don thave a GF none wants you but when you get one all of them wants you!!
FFS!!!! life heh... funny tho...