What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?
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First full time job I had was being put in charge of cleaning up and managing a retail store database of over 100,000 DVD, Video Game, and Music titles while I was in college. I started writing code to make work easier, then slowly started cleaning up networks and eventually was put in charge of all things IT. By the time I left we had over 45 stores, and a PCI compliant hub and spoke network between them all.
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First "job" was at thirteen years old as an intern for Eastman Kodak in software engineering.
First non-intern job was for Kettering University as a programmer at eighteen.
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I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
I don't recall when, but some time later I rebuilt a complete PC network Win 95 for a non profit.
First full time job was bench tech support at nights for a West Teleservices.
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@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
Were you unpaid and mentored and the word was like homework? Or was it paid, you were expected to know what you were doing and they actually used the software?
What is and isn't interning is normally pretty clear (at least when you are actually doing it.)
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Configuring MAXBOX 2000 modem banks for a tri-state telecom based in New England.
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Worked as "Hardware Engineer"
In a small shop in my home town who assembles PCs and sell to home customers. Home delivery and install Windows (and games for kids!) -
@StrongBad said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
I had a summer job in high school writing a survey program in Fortran. I guess it was an intern type job.
Were you unpaid and mentored and the word was like homework? Or was it paid, you were expected to know what you were doing and they actually used the software?
What is and isn't interning is normally pretty clear (at least when you are actually doing it.)
I was paid, and my output was used to collect data from from at least one class that the survey was created for.
Interns don't have to be unpaid.
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@Dashrender said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
Interns don't have to be unpaid.
But they do have to have a mentor.
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First IT job is hazy, ive been fixing computers since I was 13. I guess my first major one was working for Solectron Global Services (Bought By Flextronics). Started off as Sony Laptop Warranty Repair, moved to "Recovery" department due to my 1337 DOS skills haha. I did a lot there, learned how to repair lcd panels (clean room), performed BGA tap testing on motherboards, parts testing and inspection, and resoldering some parts. Promoted to TL and built up the Sony Recovery department, organization, and SOPs.
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First actual job was LuK, Inc. as a Co-op (kinda like an internship without a mentor). Worked on the Y2K project, and got hired full time once I graduated from college. IT wasn't disjointed, dysfunctional, and generally incompetent.
Couple fun stories.
When I started as a Co-op, the project they had me working on was creating a system image for the latest desktops being rolled out, and adding or replacing 350 Compaqs. They were using NT, but the computers were all being delivered with ME. Told them they weren't properly licensed, two years latter they actually fixed the licensing issue. Didn't CYA/document that one, would know better today.
The other one was the sorry state of the servers they were running the company on. Something like 40 Windows NT servers, many of them just old desktops. During the Y2K "event", one of the repurposed desktops never came back up. It just happened to be one of the old desktops I had replaced, and I knew we had 200 of those exact same boxes sitting in a storage room. So I go grab one of the now spare boxes and get the oddball adapter installed for the cd tower it ran. Boots up, it's looking good, and I ask where the software they used for sharing the cd drives with was? Everyone's in utter panic because they can't find it. So I look where nobody else thought to look, in the floppies. Ta-da, we're good to go. Why they had no backup and no system image for that thing, I'll never know.
That was the time the main file server never fully rebooted. That was a fun one. The main file server never made it back to a desktop, but was serving files on the network. It ran like that for over a year.
Yeah, thankful I'm not still around that cluster.
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IT in any sense of the word, and being used loosely? A technician at a local retailer. First REAL IT job? Was half of a two-man team at a bond-trading desk. Got to learn about ESXi, Windows Server, AD, GPO, FINRA compliance, and a bunch of other stuff. I just had lunch with my old boss a couple weeks ago. We work in the same building yet again, but different companies and different towers, but same location.
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@thanksajdotcom said in What was your FIRST IT job? And how did you get it?:
IT in any sense of the word, and being used loosely? A technician at a local retailer. First REAL IT job? Was half of a two-man team at a bond-trading desk.
Where you the top half or the bottom half?
