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How long did you look for your first IT job???
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| How long did it take you to break into the IT field? (Your first full time IT job.) | |
| The VMS Kid 2002-03-21, 9:34 am |
| I sort of got my first job by accident. Wasn't trying to get into the It field per se, just to get into any field. Once I got in, I stayed. Changing jobs from mainframe operator to Unix admin, however, took about two years. | |
| Tronn 2002-03-21, 10:47 am |
| Two and a half months and still looking. | |
| Teck Shark 2002-03-21, 10:49 am |
| I sort of fell into my first IT job too. I just new the right person. He ran his own bussiness & knew my parents. I was 15 & really had no intention of working quite yet. I had fixed his home computer before so he knew that I knew what I was doing. He needed a Network Anaylst & a PC/Netowrk support person who could help out when they switched from there lovely WANG computers to IBM Pentium 100MHZ running Windows 3.11! I was down with PC hardware & troubleshooting, but I hadn't had any experience with networking! What a way to get experience! It was great! I was very fortunate, and he was lucky too because he didn't pay me much to do what I did! $5.50/hr. But it was good experience (expecially for my first job) & it paid better than minimum wage! Plus it got me started in IT. | |
| PCDude 2002-03-21, 5:58 pm |
| It took me a little over 3 months after I got my A+. I got a help desk support job at a local internet company. I love it but I wish sometimes I could be in the field working then answering phones in a small cubicle... Maybe one day!!! | |
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| Had my first for 10 years. taken me 5 months to get my second.... Thats what I get for living in Utah..... | |
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| 2 days for the first job. 5 years later, I got my current job | |
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Originally posted by Teck Shark
they switched from there lovely WANG computers to IBM Pentium 100MHZ running Windows 3.11!
I have a WANG running in my house. I got it from a teacher I had in high school. It's a dedicated snake machine. I also have an 8 inch WANG (heh) disk somewhere. I like to whip it out from time to time and impress people by it's size.  | |
| freak 2002-03-21, 10:30 pm |
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Originally posted by Bigg
I have a WANG running in my house. I got it from a teacher I had in high school. It's a dedicated snake machine. I also have an 8 inch WANG (heh) disk somewhere. I like to whip it out from time to time and impress people by it's size.
So you like to whip out your 8 incher to impress people... hmmmm... ever thought of professional help?  j/k | |
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| Dropped out of school in november, got my A+ in January, Network+ in March, start work at a helpdesk on the 8th. Of course, I've got a few years experience working part time in various capacities, but this is the first full time job, and an opportunity I filled, instead of creating it for myself. | |
| freak 2002-03-21, 11:05 pm |
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Originally posted by Rjcc
Dropped out of school in november, got my A+ in January, Network+ in March, start work at a helpdesk on the 8th. Of course, I've got a few years experience working part time in various capacities, but this is the first full time job, and an opportunity I filled, instead of creating it for myself.
good for you. Enjoy the new gig... and maybe consider finishing school sometime, maybe at night? | |
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| Most definitely, I can already see where getting a degree will be needed to get to the places I want to go. But if I had spent one more day at that school...(well, truth be told I'da prolly hit one more party and one more sorority girl..but I digress)
However, I know that, I needed to take some time before I will be able to settle down into a classroom and work with the intensity college demands, shit, I'll worry about college when I'm old and grey, you know, 21 or so | |
| freak 2002-03-21, 11:37 pm |
| lol
I guess I nust be very old and grey by your standards! | |
| kappagamma698 2002-03-21, 11:53 pm |
| RJCC
Your story is the same as mine. Had to much fun in college did not make enough money working for a local ISP and then had to leave. Got my A+ and my first real job at a computer help desk for an engine company. Now I am getting ready to go back to school to finish up my degree because the Certs got me the job the degree and experience will get me the promotion |
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