zorrow Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Quoting Gorch: "Hamer guitars always had been made for pros - IT pros!" So, who is an IT pro here? Or at least an IT enthusiast? I am! (now it's supposed so be cool, right? )
killerteddybear Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Somehow I am attached to I.T. Let's say I'm the guy that knows enough to piss off REAL I.T. pros...
atquinn Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 2 hours ago, G Man said: Wouldn't go so far as say pro, but it is my job. That would describe me as well - Austin
Keoghpjk Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 20 minutes ago, killerteddybear said: Somehow I am attached to I.T. Let's say I'm the guy that knows enough to piss off REAL I.T. pros... I'm in the same boat. I've had my whole company fooled for years.
Lockbody Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Let's see... on my desk is: Win 10 Dual monitor PC 27" iMac MS Surface Pro Dell Laptop iPad 2x old Cisco firewalls 4x new Cisco switches Bogmar training materials (that I haven't looked at yet) Yep, I'm in IT all right.
Carl.B Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 I was now I am in PM work so all that means is I get bitched at from the business side and the IT side of things. I always love it when the IT side brings on the interns about 1/2 thru the project.
bondedbybrick Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Started as a Large Systems(meaning IBM) Computer Operator in 1974 and moved on to become a Large Systems and Network Systems Programmer in 1980 (remember SNA??). Went to work for IBM as a Systems Engineer in 1983 and retired in January of this year, after 32 years. It was a good run, working with all the latest and greatest technology that IBM USED to develop and bring to market. Not anymore....... And, unlike the new IBM'ers, I managed to get a pension. Like a lot of the "old-timers", I'm ready for a change!!
veatch Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 G Man said it best. Going on 30 years, but I have advanced all the way to middle management where I am doomed to non-productive bantering and have established a clear target on my back for the next budget cut. Never take career advice from me...
gorch Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Its my dream job actually. Discovered it around 1984 while at an electrician apprenticeship. Mastered it and freelance for 20 odd years now. Requirements engineering and PM have taken over from programming for years. But its still IT. Somehow I have never been a nerd since never having worked all night through or I never close the curtains when the sun comes in. In addition, I'm able to write and speak in full sentences and learned the full English language as opposed to simplified slangs like C, C++, Java, Fortran, Pascal, you name it. Attitudes very uncommon for real IT nerds though. A change have been in my mind for years. Somehow, I don't have a clue where to go. It will pop up when the time is right eventually. The job pays damn well.
JimiH Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Been with my company for near 25 years, went from shop floor, QC, engineering and the the last 5 years in IT. Just moved again into manufacturing engineer as of last week. Today I went on my pc for maybe 10 mins 😀 Glad to be using my pulse and my hands again. Such a good feeling knowing I haven't got 5 meetings to attend each day geoff
JimiH Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 8 minutes ago, kizanski said: What's next? Dungeons and Dragons? Only finance / sales / marketing left but the last two would involve selling my soul to the devil. This may be good for my guitar playing but I could not live with myself 😀
Bennyboy-UK Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 I work for an IBM Premier Business Partner, who have just incorporated in the US (Nashville!). (IBM Power, so i (AS/400), and AIX, plus IBM Storage, lots of x86 and VMware and stuff) Sales type, but keen to make sure I know a more technically than my peers/ competition to be more useful than just driving talented people to meetings and letting them talk then I buy lunch seems to to be working 13 years down the line, and the majority of my customers today are people I got us into when I was younger before that I was a biotchnologist (BSc Molecular Biology, Biotchnology and Genetics, then Masters degree in Biotechnological Law and Ethics. In 2000, IT seemed to be the way it was all going, and GM / Biotech was getting panned by the public and poor quality misinformation so I made a change from working in that industry to making living basically talking to people and working out how to solve their business problems or do stuff better for them, and save them money on occasion. From the shit I read on FB and elsewhere about genetic technology and the piss-poor misinformation that people believe I have to conclude that shite is just as rife if not more so that it was in the 90s. Im probably better off being out of that sadly, although I loved it and beleived that it would change the world for the better for everyone :/
BruceM Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 IT guy here too, from the punched card days in the mid-70s. My first job was with a machine tool company, supporting software for programming NC machines, and support for automated manufacturing cells. When I moved to Mpls, I went into contract work with a variety of clients, and ended up supporting manufacturing applications for a medical device company, implantable pacemakers, defibrillators and such. Much of my career was spent working on DEC computers doing application programming, database programming and support, with a smattering of systems administration thrown in. I'm pretty much retired now as well, thank goodness! Corporations have a way of draining the soul.
sixesandsevens Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 55 minutes ago, kizanski said: What's next? Dungeons and Dragons? I think that was what came first...
Bloozguy Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 Well, now we all know the right people to contact when we have computer issues
gorch Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 1 hour ago, Bloozguy said: Well, now we all know the right people to contact when we have computer issues And that's a totally erroneous believe.
Bloozguy Posted May 23, 2016 Posted May 23, 2016 18 minutes ago, gorch said: And that's a totally erroneous believe. Several years ago I bumped into my company's IT manager on a Saturday...he was wearing a t-shirt that said "No, I will NOT fix your f**king computer!" People somehow get the impression that even after a full day of work in the computer environment, IT people are just yearning for more.
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