[olug] Finally, geek for a living

[Scott Evans]

I hear ya on the "you may have to be willing to do
some
> pathetic job to get by while you look" comment.

I am currently a manager at the Subway in Elkhorn. It
sucks, but it pays the bills and you cant beat the
free food ;)

Currently Studing for my CCNA, and I dont have much
real world experience (besides my Cisco Lab and Linux
boxes at home).  So its going to be a tough fight to
find a decent IT job around here.

Thats just my to cents

Scott
--- Eric Lusk <wyrmzr72 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Yeah, I did the tech support thing at West for a
> while... Not a good thing for someone with
> allergies,
> I found myself losing my voice talking so much on
> the
> phone....
> But you've got to HAVE a job to GET one, so I had no
> problem doing the customer service job I'm doing; I
> was even referred by my current employer to my
> future
> one.
> So long as I can keep busy, I'll be in good shape. 
> Been so underpaid for so long that I'll probably
> still
> have to do the bankruptcy thing to catch back up to
> where I used to be...
> For those of you looking, make sure you have a good
> resume and you may have to be willing to do some
> pathetic job to get by while you look, but it sure
> beats sitting around the house doing nothing.
> At least, most of the time...
> --- shaughn at emosai.net wrote:
> 
> > Well, good job / luck! I recently got layed off
> from
> > doing tech work /
> > webmaster. Only problem is this town pretty much
> HAS
> > no other computer
> > jobs. I could do phone support for 6 dollars an
> > hour.
> > 
> > don't know why i replied, just congrads!
> > 
> > > Well, 2 weeks from now I'll be back to being a
> > geek
> > > for a living.  Have been doing jobs for a while
> > that
> > > have not even approached using my
> troubleshooting
> > and
> > > server skills; right now I'm in a customer
> service
> > > job... it's money...
> > > Only thing w/this new job is there will be more
> > > window$ server stuff to learn; I've run a lot
> > under
> > > Linux, which so far as I've seen is typically
> more
> > > difficult; Ive gotten used to having to edit
> files
> > in
> > > vi, and doing "make install", as opposed to
> point
> > and
> > > click.  Hope I can get used to the easy stuff :)
> > > Now, if they would only pay me more like
> > $30/hr....
> > > But not in today's market.
> > >
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