Who works in IT?

Yep - Me too

7 different companies in 11 years....

I love I.T. - Honest!

[timwilky]

Originally Posted by Terence

I walked rtight into that one, didn't I?

As someone who is responsible for over 70 *nix boxes you don't expect me not to have a dig at anything Micro$oft based do you.
Don't worry, my employers are trying to turn me to the darkside having sent me on a C# course and arranging and demanding I learn ms reporting services.

I ****ed all over their crappy MS based reporting system by writting some java apps to pull transient information out of an undocumented MS SQL database write it into an Oracle system and present a load of fancy statistical analysis and graphical presentation. Whoops what started as me ****ing on the app became the preferred customer interface

*puts hand up*

Yep, IT bod here too. Notes developer.

*sigh*

[lukemillar]

Originally Posted by timwilky

As someone who is responsible for over 70 *nix boxes you don't expect me not to have a dig at anything Micro$oft based do you.
Don't worry, my employers are trying to turn me to the darkside having sent me on a C# course and arranging and demanding I learn ms reporting services.

I p*ssed all over their crappy MS based reporting system by writting some java apps to pull transient information out of an undocumented MS SQL database write it into an Oracle system and present a load of fancy statistical analysis and graphical presentation. Whoops what started as me p*ssing on the app became the preferred customer interface

You'll like this then:

http://shelleytherepublican.com/2006...computers.html

Posted on one of our newsgroups today!

Oh and I don't work in IT.

Aye im an IT Bod, servers and networking bits are my game atm

From all the ' ' smilies being used, Im beginning to regret my choice of career change, currently working towards certification (done A+ so far, doing N+ at the mo, then MCSA, MCSE and CCNA)

Oh no, just realised that makes me a 'wannabe'...

In my defence, my job at the mo REALLY sucks.

I don't like to class myself as working in "IT". If I tell some this they'll turn to me and say ".....oh thats great I have a problem with running word in Windows".

In reply I'll say "I can't help you unless your windows environment also runs my teleooms billing/mediation/network provisioning system and is actually based on a HP super dome or Sun Cluster and incorporates weblogic and C programming"

Most times they'll shut up and ask an IT person.


I'M NOT I.T.

[Skip]

Originally Posted by El Saxo

From all the ' ' smilies being used, Im beginning to regret my choice of career change, currently working towards certification (done A+ so far, doing N+ at the mo, then MCSA, MCSE and CCNA)

Oh no, just realised that makes me a 'wannabe'...

In my defence, my job at the mo REALLY sucks.

You know what they say...

Originally Posted by They

Find a job you love and never work a day in your life

Ok I know they said it rather than wrote it, I was just trying to be a smartypants!

Originally Posted by Terence

I'm pretty sure most people work with computers, I'm talking about those of us who are in support, development, training and (I include this reluctantly) sales.

What's wrong with sales then ??

I know there's plenty of poor sales people out their, but the same can be said for "techies" too....

Remember. it's people like me who pay your wages

.

Yep.

Development Manager which means I have no-one ele to blame when things go wrong.

Still code, mainly SQL as I have others who can do front end work in .Net but only me I can trust to programme serverside procedures.