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Working life...
Reply #15 on: August 31, 2007, 21:26:44 PM
lol that doesnt say much about you Sam :) lol :D
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Reply #16 on: August 31, 2007, 21:37:24 PM
Bloody 9-5ers ;) Earliest I ever get off is 8pm, with last night being 1am and tonight 9.30pm!

Alas if you want to move up in the world you gotta pull the hours and show the dedication!
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Reply #17 on: August 31, 2007, 21:42:01 PM
Quote from: Kunal
Alas if you want to move up in the world you gotta pull the hours and show the dedication!


nah, if you pick the right company utter cluelessness, an ability to kiss arse and lick boots will take you much further.  Its also called "The CSC Way"
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Reply #18 on: August 31, 2007, 22:07:01 PM
Quote from: Kunal
Bloody 9-5ers ;) Earliest I ever get off is 8pm, with last night being 1am and tonight 9.30pm!

Alas if you want to move up in the world you gotta pull the hours and show the dedication!


lol got home tonight at 10pm. :)
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Reply #19 on: August 31, 2007, 22:41:57 PM
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Quote from: Kunal
Alas if you want to move up in the world you gotta pull the hours and show the dedication!


nah, if you pick the right company utter cluelessness, an ability to kiss arse and lick boots will take you much further.  Its also called "The CSC Way"


Quote

A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, but I havent got the energy."

"Well, why dont you nibble on my droppings?" replied the bull. "Theyre packed with nutrients."

The turkey pecked at a lump of dung and found that it gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree.

The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, there he was proudly
perched at the top of the tree.

Soon he was spotted by a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Moral of the story: bullsh*t might get you to the top, but it wont keep you there.


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Reply #20 on: August 31, 2007, 23:22:25 PM
I worked long hours in my last job - up to and over 100 per week.

I realised a few months ago that it wasnt getting me any more respect, it just makes the people you work for realise they can ask more of you

Theyre still going to emply people who do less work than you and pay them far more.

Moral of the story - get all the experience you can and then find another job.
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Reply #21 on: September 01, 2007, 01:16:15 AM
I was doing 10-12hr days in my last job. Ive only had 2 or 3 jobs that Ive really liked, I hate working - its such a waste of time and Im planning on retirement asap. Money pisses me off, even earning 1k a week or whatever isnt enough anymore.

Just need to make shed loads of money first :/

I hate being called analyst, techy is fine, engineer is fine but analyst really gets on my tits.
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I know sh*ts bad right now with all that starving bullsh*t and the dust storms and we are running out of french fries and burrito coverings.
Re:Working life...
Reply #22 on: September 01, 2007, 11:25:38 AM
I worked from 10am & finished at 2.30pm

longest day of the week :-(

gotta fit my lunch break in there somwhere
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Reply #23 on: September 01, 2007, 11:59:46 AM
It seems everyone here appears to be in the field of work Im wanting to go in.


Going to ask for some advice here:


Right, so Im 18, I dont know sh*t about building/managing servers or anything to that professional level - But Im good with computers and pick things with them up easily (plus common sense - Its surprising how much a bit of common sense helps with computers it seems!)

Im starting a foundation degree in computing and networking at college in 2 weeks which Im lead to believe is CISCO based. I do 2 years there, then one year at Sunderland Uni to top it up.

What kind of work could I go into after these 3 years? And where is a good place to start/go from there? Any qualifications/courses I should look for after that?

Any tips career-wise, etc. that you lot have learned or mistakes you have made along the way?
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Working life...
Reply #24 on: September 01, 2007, 12:28:13 PM
id say screw the uni and get yourself into a place as a trainee, wow them with the skill you already have and work hard long and show that you want to go places.. thats how i got started
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Reply #25 on: September 01, 2007, 12:37:51 PM
What kind of places could I go to as a trainee?

Its too late to scrap the course now but Ill consider it after the first year when I have some education in the area first. :)
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Reply #26 on: September 01, 2007, 12:50:00 PM
Its a double edge sword..
A degree would open up a lot of doors to bigger companies, or you could screw off uni all together & do some CCNA, MCSE, Oracle, etc. Qualifications instead & start at the bottom or even go self employed/contracting - which can be lucrative & is great if you dont like staying somwhere for long.

What kind of role do you want? Do you want an office & desk enviroment? or do you want a 3rd line role where you mince around the office until you have work to do & then skive out the office on a job.

Im based from Home, but my work takes me to various goverment buildings & militry installations. If nothings broke, I sit at home waiting for somthing to break. - It might sound good.. but your tied down as you cant really go anyhwhere or do anything & then when you get a call you get pissed off because your watching somthing good on the TV :-D


If your sticking to your uni course, then I would ask a few local places for work - Id even go as far as offering it for Free on a saturday or somthing...

You will learn a lot more & usually get to play with the latest hardware/software at an independent computer store.
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Reply #27 on: September 01, 2007, 15:47:51 PM
Quote from: jamieL
It seems everyone here appears to be in the field of work Im wanting to go in.


Going to ask for some advice here:


Right, so Im 18, I dont know sh*t about building/managing servers or anything to that professional level - But Im good with computers and pick things with them up easily (plus common sense - Its surprising how much a bit of common sense helps with computers it seems!)

Im starting a foundation degree in computing and networking at college in 2 weeks which Im lead to believe is CISCO based. I do 2 years there, then one year at Sunderland Uni to top it up.

What kind of work could I go into after these 3 years? And where is a good place to start/go from there? Any qualifications/courses I should look for after that?

Any tips career-wise, etc. that you lot have learned or mistakes you have made along the way?


Network adminy jobs... Skip uni, do experience and go for certs.

Developer, or research/sciency roles like my one... Go to uni, get on a graduate scheme for IBM or HP or LogicaCMG ;) and get in that way.
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Reply #28 on: September 01, 2007, 15:49:40 PM
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What kind of places could I go to as a trainee?

Its too late to scrap the course now but Ill consider it after the first year when I have some education in the area first. :)


You can scrap it at any time, and if you scrap it before you enrol, then you havent lost any money, as any money you have paid, they refund.
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Reply #29 on: September 01, 2007, 22:09:55 PM
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Its also called "The CSC Way"


Hahaha you guys are sh*t.  Most frustrating phonecall I ever had was with some dopey woman of yours who didnt know what a registry was.  
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