What do you do?

[SPFreely 49]

I work as a Personal Assistant and Support Worker for a Social Worker.  It's a unique experience.  Without being a social work student you're getting a first hand look at everything, whilst contributing in a small part.  My primary role however is to provide support for a Social Worker who is dual impaired in eyesight and hearing.  Unfortunately, my job is up in a couple of years and I can choose to either forge a new working relationship with another client, which will prove difficult or my ideal plan of turning Twitch streaming into an income of some form.

 

I just wanted to say this explains why you're all such a well rounded bunch of people.  You all do really interesting, worthwhile and essential jobs here.

[Diddums 4,346]

I'm currently at the height of my career working for the best company I've ever worked for. I'm a building manager and my line manager is worth £3b so hopefully I'll get to call him dad one day and get written in to his will. To get here I've had quite an illustrious career which has involved unblocking toilets in a prison and moving office furniture for £50 a day. It's been an extremely long and difficult road but being able to wear a suit to work and work with people who aren't constantly scratching their bollocks and picking their noses has made it all worth while. 

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

8 hours ago, Diddums said:

I'm currently at the height of my career working for the best company I've ever worked for. I'm a building manager and my line manager is worth £3b so hopefully I'll get to call him dad one day and get written in to his will. To get here I've had quite an illustrious career which has involved unblocking toilets in a prison and moving office furniture for £50 a day. It's been an extremely long and difficult road but being able to wear a suit to work and work with people who aren't constantly scratching their bollocks and picking their noses has made it all worth while. 

I was playing with some mutual friends last night Didds....does your current job involve maths? 😂

[cyberninja2601 1,106]

 

I am a bit late to the party but in anycase

 

I manage an applications engineering group at Intel in San Jose which is responsible for 5G networking. People think Intel and CPUs. It's a huge part of the business but Intel does much more.

 

I am in the data center group

 

this is what we do

 

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/communications/products/programmable/overview.html?wapkw=5g

 

It wouldn't be possible for you to be doing what you are doing now if it wasn't for someone providing these solutions

 

 

[Dan94 913]

He does... he does do web stuff. [emoji4]

Just looked back and saw the previous threads. Not much to say, I've been designing websites pretty much since there's been a graphical web. No programming though, just self-taught HTML, CSS, etc. In fact, I went to Bible College for four years and got my Bachelor of Theology majoring in youth but I make my money developing websites. 

I stopped working for "The Man" several years ago and started my own business. A few years ago I stopped handcoding websites and solely develop and host WordPress-based sites and storefronts. (cleanslatestudios.ca)

What'd did you use to self teach HTML, CSS and JS mate? I've heard a lot about tree house recently


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[Dan94 913]

Had an interview this morning at an IT company. Not for Web design, but for IT Support which im more than happy about. Either I'm happy with doing, just want to get into the IT industry.

Going to let me know in the next couple days if I've been selected for a trial day, so fingers crossed


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[Dan94 913]

Printers and networks and emails, oh my!

Haha I've been doing that since I've been young though, beats my current job and is in IT at least [emoji16] Just gotta hope now


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[jordie1892 681]

Im the UK Marketing Manager for a Book Publisher here in the UK. We publish books for Disney, Marvel and Lego (as well as some less exciting names), which is pretty cool. I started as an Assistant on £13k 4 years ago,  so that explains where all my time/energy has gone!

[phil bottle 9,755]

Im the UK Marketing Manager for a Book Publisher here in the UK. We publish books for Disney, Marvel and Lego (as well as some less exciting names), which is pretty cool. I started as an Assistant on £13k 4 years ago,  so that explains where all my time/energy has gone!

Cool, so when we all finish our novels (like Brian from Family Guy) now we know where to come.

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[Dan94 913]

Right guys, so as you know I've been trying to get into the world of IT; either through web design or IT support.

I think for me, IT Support may be the best route. I've tried learning code, which is getting harder and harder to grasp (no shit), but my knowledge of computers in terms of support, networking, troubleshooting etc is more natural and I take to things better.

 

I'm currently looking around to see if there are many vacancies I could apply for, either IT Support, Desktop Technician, 1st line Support etc those type of roles. One thing I'm noticing is that a lot of companies employees are 'CompTIA A+ Certified'. I obviously have no IT qualifications except from GCSE IT which I doubt is barely recognised lmao.

 

My question to you guys who are in the IT world, would it be worth knuckling down studying towards A+ qualification and then paying the £200 or so to sit an exam? Or are there other ways to get 'qualified' for IT support?

 

Cheers

 

[crispymorgan 1,054]

I've done the CompTIA stuff. It's very basic and more of just a memory game.  Fairly interesting, but mostly about RAID levels and UEFI BIOS that sort of thing, nothing too taxing.  I was 21 when I decided I wanted to work in Telecomms and took a massive pay cut to work for BT.  I Started on standard telephony stuff and moved up to fibre optics and networking.  From there I jumped over to supporting hardware in a  datacentre, and from there jumped to supporting storage arrays nationally (still at BT).  Throughout my whole career, the thing that gets me through is logical problem solving and the ability to get shit done.  In my last interview I said I knew next to fuck all about this role, but my best skills are transferable and I'll pick it up quickly.  I joined in March and I'm now supporting callouts for national level incidents (eeeek) and doing some complex shit.

 

Have a look on Amazon for some used books, they are cheap as fuck (usually an older edition) but pretty much everything is the same.  CCNA is another good qualification, but again no measure of a useful network engineer (I've worked with some exceptionally stupid people with CCNA I wouldn't let them reset my home hub.) 

 

[Dan94 913]

The CompTIA A+ is still worth doing though isn't it to get the basic 'foot in the door' type qualification? At the moment, all I have is GCSE IT but my knowledge is much better than that lol just need a formal qualification to prove that to employers

[crispymorgan 1,054]

Absolutely worth doing.  Like you say it's a foot in the door.  It shows you have a basic understanding and an ability to learn.  I was more pointing out that it's not too difficult and don't be put off by it.  I have IT post nominals, Crispymorgan CDCTP is my official title (certified data centre technician professional).  Data centre energy saving is going to be massive moving forward so always keep up to date with energy saving initiatives, companies love it.

[Dan94 913]

Absolutely worth doing.  Like you say it's a foot in the door.  It shows you have a basic understanding and an ability to learn.  I was more pointing out that it's not too difficult and don't be put off by it.  I have IT post nominals, Crispymorgan CDCTP is my official title (certified data centre technician professional).  Data centre energy saving is going to be massive moving forward so always keep up to date with energy saving initiatives, companies love it.

Have you heard of Professor Messer? He has free videos on his website and YouTube which cover the 2 exam materials and has incredible reviews. You can then buy his notes for £20 I believe too on his website, guy has 500k subs and seems very easy to listen to and learn from


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[Dan94 913]

I got offered a job at a software company in support, but seems more like a call centre rather than a proper IT support role. Minimum wage too with not much scope to progress, interview and company seemed very unprofessional too (difference between laid back and unprofessional imo)

Weighing up options but think I'm going to stay where I am which is much better money (£400 extra a month) and jusy keep studying hard in my CompTIA A+ and keep an eye out for proper IT support jobs coming up
 

[Dan94 913]

Sounds like you're not afraid to "pay your dues" to climb up the ladder over time but if there's no room to grow, sounds like it's not the right fit. That's too bad...

If it was a proper it support role on minimum wage I'd take it as foot in the door and progress over time etc but they basically said don't be expecting a pay rise or progression as we're a small company (this is what I mean by unprofessional [emoji23]) during the interview


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[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

If it was a proper it support role on minimum wage I'd take it as foot in the door and progress over time etc but they basically said don't be expecting a pay rise or progression as we're a small company (this is what I mean by unprofessional [emoji23]) during the interview


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Have you managed to find anything yet Dan?

[Dan94 913]

Have you managed to find anything yet Dan?

No mate [emoji17] there was a 3 stage interview process for another position, got through the first stage and invited to second stage but unfortunately someone else better.

I'm still studying and looking though, just gets a bit disheartening


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[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

No mate [emoji17] there was a 3 stage interview process for another position, got through the first stage and invited to second stage but unfortunately someone else better.

I'm still studying and looking though, just gets a bit disheartening


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Keep your head up mate, you're continually getting better even if you don't realise it. Studying at the same time as these interviews which give you good experience will get you there.

Which specific bit are you studying atm


In other news, I need to change my Jack of all trades, master of fuck all way of working to be a little more specialised. Continually asking for opportunities to support other areas hopefully will help push me in the right direction [emoji106]

[Dan94 913]

Does anyone here use LinkedIn much?

[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

21 hours ago, Dan94 said:

Does anyone here use LinkedIn much?

I'm on it but don't really use it. I have to get more engaged with it tbh however I always worry that is seen by your current employer as you're looking to move away. Having said that, it definitely helps get your networking up in and around the industry you want to work in.

[The3rdWalker 1,271]

Does anyone here use LinkedIn much?

I make sure it’s up to date whenever I do my resume. However it’s becoming a bit like Facebook so I find that a big negative.


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[Dan94 913]

Yeah I've just connected with a load of IT recruiters and IT support people etc so try network a bit. Won't be posting or anything it's just a profile which is another way of a potential employer or job could come available


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[tronic44 3,642]

I use LinkedIn for keeping in touch with people that we get in for different projects, it does seem a bit like Facebook now but is still good for networking.

[Dan94 913]

Had an interview yesterday for an IT support / desktop engineer type role. Felt it went really well, my lack of experience and qualifications didn't seem to phase them as they look more into personality and fitting into the team and being able to teach me with a technical brain.

Should hear by the end of this week whether I've made the 2nd interviews. Fingers crossed


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