I'm curious, How many different IT jobs/places have you worked?

Or at the very least what do you have in your regular resume? In order from most recent and without revealing any details really for me it would be...

1- City Agency - Level 2 Help Desk
2- Department of Education - IT Support
3- Nonprofit Justice organization - IT Intern

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jvrlopez

1 - Contract co. #1
2 - Contract co. #2
3 - United States Air Force.

Covers the past 6 years.

kohr-ah

1. Network engineer (retail giant)
2. MSP - mid sized (printer tech up to cloud engineer/network engineer)
3. Analytics company (sys admin)

This is past 5 years.

NotHackingYou

1. School district IT intern (2 years)
2. Software company # 1 support tech (~3 years)
3. Software company # 2 IT/Support tech (~3 years)
4. Credit union Sys Admin (~1 year)
5. Credit union (same) Sys Admin/Software developer (current)

Edited to add timespans

darkerz

College - Cisco Network Intern (2 years)
Healthcare - Datacenter Operator (1 year)
MSP - Network Engineer (1 year)
Enterprise - Network Engineer (1 year)
Enterprise - Sr Network Smarthands Engineer (current)

networker050184

3 ISPs, 1 Data Center, 2 equipment vendors and the military.

Chitownjedi

1. Big Gas Company (Contractor) 11 months
2. Big Gas Company (Contractor) 3 months
3. Big Fast Food Chain (Contractor) 2 months
4. Big Bank(Contractor) 3 months
5. Medium Size Distributor (FTE) 6 Months
6. Big HealthCare co. (FTE) 5 months

That's been my last 30 months.. Each job has been a move up in responsibility with better pay.

Iristheangel

1. Records retrieval company - Almost 2 years
2. Medium-sized health system t - about 2.5 years
3. Lots of side gigs independently during number 2 through Onforce and Workmarket for about a year
4. Internship at a cloud provider/MSP - for 3 miserable months
5. Large international company - 1.5 years

Anonymouse

Retail Electronics Store - PC Repair (more like ripping customers off)
State University - Desktop Support (temp)
Big Oil Corp Office - PC Migration Project (temp)
Data Storage Company - Data backups/restores (temp)
Big Greedy Bank - Tier 1 Helpdesk
Non-profit Healthcare - SysAdmin

Nyblizzard

This is very interesting to me as I have always wondered about how many jobs you guys jump to in a shorter amount of time compared to some of my friends in non IT careers.

QHalo

1. Fortune 500 Insurance company - 7.5 years
2. AM Law 100 Firm - 3 years
3. Large Health Insurance - 1.5 years
3. AM Law 200 Firm - ~2 years

FloOz

1) Legal Services - Computer systems intern(1 year) + Desktop Engineer(about a year)
2) Large Utility Company - Network Engineer (9 months)
3) Financial Services - Network Engineer (Just started working here this month)

slotzero

- Insurance Company (Managed Medicaid for the state) - Senior Systems Engineer, ~5 years <- current gig
- Consumer Goods - Senior Web Application Developer, 6 years
- Dot com Company - Software Engineer, 2 years
- Small IT Services Company - Developer, 1 year
- Large Insurance Company (one of the Blues) - Senior Developer, 2.5 years
- Meat Processing Company (did hamburger for BK, Wendys, etc) - Systems Analyst, 2.5 years
- Midwest-based Computer Manufacturer - Tech Support, 1 year
- Public Library System - Computer Instructor, 3 years

MSP-IT

In IT:
Security Product Manufacturer, Technical Engineer - 9 months
Large Bank, Infrastructure Security - 3 months (current)

Hypntick

International hotel chain - network analyst - 2 years 10 months
International paper company - contractor - 3 months
MSP - from network engineer to support engineer supervisor - 1 year 8 months
MSP - Systems and Security engineer - 1 year 2 months (current)

gorebrush

Local Government - Intranet Co-Ordinator - 9 months
Local Government - Helpdesk - 1 month
Unemployed - 1 month
Local Government - 2nd Line Engineer/Installs - 3 months
Local Government - Intranet Co-Ordinator - 4 months
Bridge Building Firm - Systems Administrator - 2.5 years
Medical Manufacturing - Senior Systems Administrator - 2.5 years
Very, very large international IT company - Tools Engineer - 2 years
Very, very large international IT company - Network Engineer - 1 years 2 months.

To only have been out of work for 1 month out of my 9 1/2 year career makes me very happy indeed.

Akaricloud

State University - Desktop Support Tech - 3 years
Healthcare Company - Jr. Systems Administrator - 5 months
International Architecture Firm - Systems Administrator - 1.5 year
Wireless Carrier - Big Data Systems Engineer - 6+ months and currently here

Each change averaged me a 75% pay increase.

xenodamus

1. PC Repair shop - Desktop/Network tech - 7 yrs
2. High School - Vocational IT instructor - 3 yrs
3. Large Hospital - Desktop Support - 1 yr
4. US Army Corp of Engineers - Network Engineer - 3 mo
5. Same Large Hospital - Desktop/Helpdesk Supervisor - 1.5 yr
6. Same Large Hospital - Network Administrator - 1 yr

In case you're wondering...I left the hospital to get out of desktop support plus a $15k bump. My old boss quit and I returned to take his job for another $15k bump. So I got a $30k raise by leaving and coming back

. I'm now on the infrastructure team where I wanted to be all along anyway.

gadav478

-Help Desk - 1 year and some change
-Server Admin/Migration - 4 months (same company)

Getting all the experience I can handle.

Dieg0M

1 Data Center and the military so far.

antielvis

Nyblizzard wrote: »

This is very interesting to me as I have always wondered about how many jobs you guys jump to in a shorter amount of time compared to some of my friends in non IT careers.

In the early days of your career you'll probably change jobs frequently especially if you want to develop your career. It's a quick transition from Future Shop tech to help desk to desktop guy. It slows down as your duties get more advanced. It takes months just to grasp a large enterprise network so you're usually around longer.

I.T is a funny business. In many businesses frequently changing jobs is not a good thing. In IT, it's not such an issue because often the only path to personal growth is working for someone else. I know recruiters who actually frown on people who have been in the same position 5+ years. I'm told they start thinking why hasn't this person advanced in their career?

Iristheangel

I say that I probably have jumped ship most of the time because I learned all I was going to learn there (extra money at the next job came in a close second). I've seen too many people get pigeon-holed onto their positions because it was safe and comfortable. One thing I worry about with the kind of work I do is only having limited exposure to the various architectures. None of the companies I've worked at so far are technology-specific( excluding the MSP but they used outdated crap anyways). Meaning their bread and butter is something else but they have an IT department I work in. I may get training provided, manage their network, deploy new ones, etc but I feel as though my vision of IT is limited. Don't get me wrong. I'm doing some awesome things: I know the standards of this enterprise I work at right now, I know the network in and out, I will have the chance to deploy ISE at every sister site in early 2014 and OWN that project as my own, and I'll definitely be part of our major data center overhaul next year which will replace core 6500s with Nexus 7000s and help create a better data center design... but after those projects are done, the major parts of the network are going to be stable for quite some time.

I'll probably stick to my current job for the next year or two so I can soak up all the possible knowledge and head those projects but probably by 2016, I'll be trying to work at a VAR like CDW or WWT. From the friends I have that work at both, a year of experience there is like five years of experience in a random company. I would be really excited to get my hands on different technologies, designs, etc and the training they provide is amazing. I have about three friends in their 20's working at VARs who are all CCIEs and really live up to it.

shodown

Iristheangel wrote: »

I say that I probably have jumped ship most of the time because I learned all I was going to learn there (extra money at the next job came in a close second). I've seen too many people get pigeon-holed onto their positions because it was safe and comfortable. One thing I worry about with the kind of work I do is only having limited exposure to the various architectures. None of the companies I've worked at so far are technology-specific( excluding the MSP but they used outdated crap anyways). Meaning their bread and butter is something else but they have an IT department I work in. I may get training provided, manage their network, deploy new ones, etc but I feel as though my vision of IT is limited. Don't get me wrong. I'm doing some awesome things: I know the standards of this enterprise I work at right now, I know the network in and out, I will have the chance to deploy ISE at every sister site in early 2014 and OWN that project as my own, and I'll definitely be part of our major data center overhaul next year which will replace core 6500s with Nexus 7000s and help create a better data center design... but after those projects are done, the major parts of the network are going to be stable for quite some time.

I'll probably stick to my current job for the next year or two so I can soak up all the possible knowledge and head those projects but probably by 2016, I'll be trying to work at a VAR like CDW or WWT. From the friends I have that work at both, a year of experience there is like five years of experience in a random company. I would be really excited to get my hands on different technologies, designs, etc and the training they provide is amazing. I have about three friends in their 20's working at VARs who are all CCIEs and really live up to it.

This is so true. I've only worked at VARs(outside of a year at a company) and we are always light years ahead of the enterperise guys/gals.

SteveO86

Govt - Network Analyst - 4 years
MSP - Sr Network Engineer - 1 year
MSP -Sr Network Engineer - 8 Months
Enterprise - Sr Network Engineer -

It's all about experiencing and growing, until you find that one spot you can be happy with. Any Pay, you can't forget the pay

santaowns

pretty simple IT career so far
1 fortune 15 company
-(Contractor) working on security systems(DVRS, Network, IP Cameras, Database etc) and doing regular physical/desk security job - 4 years
-Operations / help desk - 2 years
-Network Control Center / System Admin - 2months (current position)
all with same company.

Tom Servo

University - Helpdesk Technician ~ 4 years
University - System Administrator ~ 3 years
Small Private Company (300 employees) - System Administrator ~ 1 month (fired)
Publicly Traded Company (5000+ employees) - Information Security Analyst ~ 2 years
Big 4 - Experienced Associate ~ 10 months
Midsize Private Company ~ Senior IT Auditor ~ 3 months (current position)

WiseWun

Iristheangel wrote: »

I say that I probably have jumped ship most of the time because I learned all I was going to learn there (extra money at the next job came in a close second). I've seen too many people get pigeon-holed onto their positions because it was safe and comfortable. One thing I worry about with the kind of work I do is only having limited exposure to the various architectures. None of the companies I've worked at so far are technology-specific( excluding the MSP but they used outdated crap anyways). Meaning their bread and butter is something else but they have an IT department I work in. I may get training provided, manage their network, deploy new ones, etc but I feel as though my vision of IT is limited. Don't get me wrong. I'm doing some awesome things: I know the standards of this enterprise I work at right now, I know the network in and out, I will have the chance to deploy ISE at every sister site in early 2014 and OWN that project as my own, and I'll definitely be part of our major data center overhaul next year which will replace core 6500s with Nexus 7000s and help create a better data center design... but after those projects are done, the major parts of the network are going to be stable for quite some time.

I'll probably stick to my current job for the next year or two so I can soak up all the possible knowledge and head those projects but probably by 2016, I'll be trying to work at a VAR like CDW or WWT. From the friends I have that work at both, a year of experience there is like five years of experience in a random company. I would be really excited to get my hands on different technologies, designs, etc and the training they provide is amazing. I have about three friends in their 20's working at VARs who are all CCIEs and really live up to it.

+1

I've been in my current role for 2 years now and I think its time for me to make a move. When you stop learning and/or know your duties in and out, then it's time. As showdown mentioned, VARs are years ahead of the enterprise/public sectors. There's this VAR(Cisco) but it's an 1hr drive. But you know what, I just might rekindle the relationship with the recruiter.

kohr-ah

WiseWun wrote: »

+1

I've been in my current role for 2 years now and I think its time for me to make a move. When you stop learning and/or know your duties in and out, then it's time. As showdown mentioned, VARs are years ahead of the enterprise/public sectors. There's this VAR(Cisco) but it's an 1hr drive. But you know what, I just might rekindle the relationship with the recruiter.

That is why I left my last place. I could of rode it out and probably made it up to management but it was just... STALE.
GL in your search

ScrawnyRonnie

I'm still pretty fresh into the IT field myself:

Medical Center - Help Desk/Desktop Support/AD tasks - 1.5 years (current)

Still in my first IT position, but I'm looking to progress within the next year.