Being a Tech is Incredibly Boring

[DontSayBanana]

Didn't want to go totally off the rails in the certs thread, so I thought I'd share some rationale on why I don't have them, and that actually edged me out against the competition in getting my job.

Long story short, being a for-hire service technician sucks.  There's virtually no volume, and the cases you get mostly involve shot hard drives.  Given our testing process and past experience, if I even have to break out the DFT disk (drive fitness test for anybody that doesn't speak IT ABC soup), I'm already pretty sure it's going to fail.

Occasionally, though, I do get some stuff that's funny in a cosmic sort of way.  Such as a motherboard with a bad SATA controller that I RMA'd, only to get a replacement that doesn't even POST. (Protip: stay away from ECS Elitegroup.  Far, far away- I've finally found a motherboard manufacturer that's worse than Biostar, and their support sucks donkey balls)

[Phillip V]

Don't be a tech.

Become an "analyst" or "consultant".

[Darth Wagtaros]

Go into networking. There is money there, and security.

[DontSayBanana]

Go into networking. There is money there, and security.

That's one thing I'm cross-training in, for that reason.  Of course, it was hilarious the first time I had to run cable for the warehouse.  Severe acrophobic + 28-foot extension ladder = hilarity.

We're actually trying to position ourselves for more networking and surveillance service calls, but the few Languishites who've been to Cumberland County can tell you, marketing any of that newfangled "telephone" stuff here is a chore.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Join the Navy.

[DontSayBanana]

Join the Navy.

Never pass a physical.  My shooting hand's fucked up.

[DontSayBanana]

SearchProtect, PC Fix Speed, and Comcast's lovely ConstantGuard (have they stopped using that system-wrecking piece of crap yet?), all on one machine.  And of course, my boss is only just now starting to realize that I'm actually stronger on manual infection removal than he is.  Today's GEM quote: "I don't use msconfig- nothing shows up there."

[Darth Wagtaros]

Another installment from Nick Burns, Your Company's Computer Guy.

[Eddie Teach]

Didn't want to go totally off the rails in the certs thread, so I thought I'd share some rationale on why I don't have them, and that actually edged me out against the competition in getting my job.

How so?

[Grey Fox]

Yes, it's boring.

[DontSayBanana]

How so?

I personally wouldn't mind carrying a couple of certs, but the boss feels they're a racket and tend towards too narrow a curriculum for the kind of stuff we run into.

[Darth Wagtaros]

How so?

I personally wouldn't mind carrying a couple of certs, but the boss feels they're a racket and tend towards too narrow a curriculum for the kind of stuff we run into.

They are a racket as has been stated. But the Caligas and Eds of the world enforce the racket, so you may as well start spending your money on them.

[Caliga]

 

[MadBurgerMaker]

Never pass a physical.  My shooting hand's fucked up.

Doesn't matter.  Being a Navy IT looked like it was just as boring as being a civilian tech/IT guy anyway.  Only real difference is their clothes were all the same and their office moved (assuming they were even on a boat instead of just on a base somewhere).  They also probably get paid less than you.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Your BBQ sauce is made from teh tears of children who went without Christmas because their parents needed an A+ cert.