7 hours late, it will matter to this post, but it wouldn't to the job. Assign Three

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I apologise to a group of people nice enough to give me a job last year, before realising that was a big mistake.

Like statelines, banklines, and ABC's Lateline, Deadlines are imperceptible lines in the sands that humans make as an attempt to control the lives of the people around them in order so that the actions of the people around them are more controlled, predictable and trustworthy so that nothing may surprise them.


So I will rebel. I will write this post and submit it past the due date, making it appear before all the actual legitimate entries on the live feed.


What totally did not happen is I forgot that this was suppose to be in several hours ago. Totally did not happen.


It's kind of ironic, this was the post I was looking forward to most of all but after getting 218 in and having quite a full weekend, I now have no chance of attending some music event listen to a bunch of music I don't know, get bored, get out my Sansa and start listening to other music over 200 years old or their remixes. Sigh. Such is life.


After currently looking for a part time job for the past ten months, it's allowed me a lot of time to think about the actual job I wanted to do, but if you've been following this blog, or at least know me a little bit, you'll understand why I'm still unemployed. No mother, it's NOT cause I'm lazy... Okay well kind of, let me explain...


Ideal job description: Technical work, fun group of enthusiastic geeks, with some stereotype qualities, in dingy little basement, informal attire, LANs second Tuesday of every 3rd month, or whenever there's not a lot to do, must bring offering of movie, music and TV shows to apply. People who don't know Boxxy is need not apply.


Actually, I'd have to be allowed to kill Boxxy, but at least I know who she is. Okay actually, let forget Boxxy, she's had way too much attention given to her anyway, letgo with "People who don't know the origin or Caturday, or that the pool is closed or that for great justice they should launch of every zig."


I had a Technical support last year. A dream come true, fixing computers in a real business environment, learning actual business processes and what really happens in a IT department. But it was apparent after a short time that this would not be smooth sailing. It was the group of people I was with. I don't relly want to offend them, it was just me being a dick and thinking that they'd all have a similar background, and a lot of the time talk in meme's. Or at LEAST know the basics of the 802.16 protocol stack.. SERIOUSLY. Argh.

• They won't look at me confused if I ask them to do a barrel roll, or if they do are doing so to quote Tom Green.

They were from the real world. They had relationships, they worked hard, they only came to work to work, grab a job from the top of the list, go do it, rinse repeat...All the jobs were to similar. Go reghost this computer, go reghost that one... This isn't fun! This is work! This is repeditive! This is crap! This music is Metalica... ALL THE MUSIC IS GODDAMN MATALICA. ALL MATALICA MUSIC SOUNDS THE SAME!

•  indie\techno in background
• If there is a problem, fix it/determine it, rather than just straight reghosting the machine. I am aware this takes more time but, don't you feel better that you've solved it.

AH. To assume makes and ass out of u and me, but seriously, it made an ass out of me. From what I'd got at uni, IT seemed all about just socialising, the actual fact you were at a work place  seemed just an add on, computer problems were still there and you still had to go work on them (you just go that assume joke now, didn't you??)

• all calls made by users who can't be bothered calling the actual help desk, calls pick up after third ring
• There is a list on the wall of peopleusers who will treat you like crap

I wanted to know how the network was constructed. As my email signature says "I am a networking GOD!" and the one this I wanted to see was logical network topology map, partially cause I'd get a kick out of seeing an actual network topolgy map, partially so I could reconstruct it in Packet Tracer, find  vulnerability a perform a DDoS attack when I was dismissed. (Don't send an FU email to select members of management, you may THINK it'll make you feel good, but it makes you feel worse, and even more guilty that you're pinching a monitor.) But MOSTLY to REALLY know the system I was dealing with, to understand how it all worked, the few times I came over network issues, I'd wished that I could actually tell what ACLs were on the switches, and why the print servers were going slow, and what was that computer in the server room with the ascii art screen saver. That is awesome. In my last few weeks there I found out there was a linux server somewhere, I couldn't see it and that annoyed me, I know I wouldn't have access to it, but knowing it was that would make me feel more knowledgeable about the place I work and be able to apply what I learnt at uni to the real world. Those Cisco exams gotta get me somewhere.

• I wanna be told how my work, works.
• I would love to be somewhere a bit higher up than technical support

Sure it's fun fixing problems, but after taking  replacement keyboard somewhere, finding that the plug on the original keyboard is lose, cleaning the contact, reconnecting it, wiping down the keyboard, and trudging back to the office for the 20th time in 3 months, I just felt like when I wanted to solve a problem, I wanted to really be a big problem. There was a time during my time there, although I wasn't actually working that day, I found out about it, when the ENTIRE network went down. Now that's the problem I want to fix. The admins had there own special room, seemed to just talk alday and just watch the network from a higher level, doing cool tasks like managing GPO's and drawing on a white board, studying for some future upgrades. That's the place I want to be, an master of my domain (ZING! That works on like FIVE levels!). True Responsibility.

• A managing position, but not actually managing people, just the backbone of the organisation.

This job does actually seem to exist, Kind of..It's a sys admin. My dream job. Although the corporation would have to be damn sweet.

Money is not an issue (But it is nice to know the median sys admin salary is $90,000+). If the people were nice. The job not too serious. I'd happily put in extra hours for no pay, just to spend time, in  position where I have a huge resposibility, but not for people.

I'd just like to state that one more time. I'm not a very people person. I like to be in a management position, but I'm not one of those people that a large group automatically respects and trusts their decision.

Lastly as a sort of add on, Sys Admin's, although most of you won't believe this, get to be creative, now I'm no song writer, author or artist, but I do love to do my own thing (Try and find a structure to this post and you're doing well. Try and find a correctly grammatically structured sentence and you're doing even better.) Sys admin's get to problem solve, and find a solution that they think best, and that's the one that people adopt, people don't like you all of sudden, but you get authority that the choices you make have a background of prior knowledge to them and therefore they accept it as the best, even if it isn't.

"IS IT GOOD FOR THE COMPANY?" I don't know, but it amuses me the most. I probably a monarchist wanting to look down on people. Hey, 99% of the time PICNIC or PEBCAK! Please ask what the acronyms mean in the comments, I'd love some comments to my posts.

Oh and Sys Admins HAVE THEIR OWN DAY. Last Friday of July every year I'm so taking off...
and trust me, I will have earned it

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WEEEEEEE!!!