What Are You Doing Right Now
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@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller Yeah, that makes sense.
The rest of the request wasn't great either. They were really into certs (which I blow away their requirements) and education (which I have but I'm not a noobie so that's offensive to mention) and whatnot. In reality, the job was just way too junior and they should not have been pursuing me.
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@scottalanmiller Good way to stand-up for yourself
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@scottalanmiller someone was attempting to steal you from @Minion-Queen ?!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller someone was attempting to steal you from @Minion-Queen ?!
I get contacted about maybe 10-20 senior positions a day.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just told a job that because they used Cisco UCS I knew that they didn't take what they do seriously so I wasn't interested in continuing the conversation. If you are still using Cisco UCS in 2017, you are a freaking idiot. Lots of people were fooled by that crap a few years ago and tried it out, but if you've not learned better and replaced it by now... c'mon.
Replaced it? What if it's still serving it's purpose?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's how you can have the clients that follow your recommendations. In the end it would have been hard to have them as clients if they are not willing to change unless they told you right away.
Yeah, and the issue was that they wanted someone with Cisco UCS skills... which means they are seeing it as an active investment.
Ok this explains why you told them no.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I just told a job that because they used Cisco UCS I knew that they didn't take what they do seriously so I wasn't interested in continuing the conversation. If you are still using Cisco UCS in 2017, you are a freaking idiot. Lots of people were fooled by that crap a few years ago and tried it out, but if you've not learned better and replaced it by now... c'mon.
Replaced it? What if it's still serving it's purpose?
UCS is old, by this point either they had to buy it long ago and have learned their lessons and not replaced it with another or they had plenty of time to have known that it was a joke as everyone did many years ago and known not to have bought it. In either case, it's at a point where having it and investing in it is wrong.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller That's how you can have the clients that follow your recommendations. In the end it would have been hard to have them as clients if they are not willing to change unless they told you right away.
Yeah, and the issue was that they wanted someone with Cisco UCS skills... which means they are seeing it as an active investment.
Ok this explains why you told them no.
Right, it's not the OWNING it that is bad, it's that they are focusing their hiring around keeping it.
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Heavy traffic around here today. Lots of posts, lots of views. Good stuff
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Heavy traffic around here today. Lots of posts, lots of views. Good stuff
Got off to a slowish start, but it sure has picked up.
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Reading about SIP to have a better understanding of what is exactly happening when you're initiating a call.
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Sitting at the colo, watching an array rebuild, then it's time to go home.
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@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting at the colo, watching an array rebuild, then it's time to go home.
That's an exciting start to your weekend
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting at the colo, watching an array rebuild, then it's time to go home.
That's an exciting start to your weekend
I was on the way home at noon, but when I got here there was a failed drive, so I had to go back for the spare. It's alright, I have a fun night planned.
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@RojoLoco said
I was on the way home at noon, but when I got here there was a failed drive, so I had to go back for the spare. It's alright, I have a fun night planned.
Will there be multiple arrays to be watched?
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@BRRABill the array watching will soon be done, then I'll be on my way to hang out with a lovely young lady.
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Maybe taking the kids to the splash park in a bit.
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At the park.
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Had a good conversation with a co-worker (a dev in the IT dept, newer to the field than I) for the last 30 minutes about dealing with business challenges. Despite being almost done with year 4 in IT, really in the last eight months or I've begun to realize what IT's actual place is in the world of business (see the various threads about what is IT). It's curious as I come to these realizations I'm experiencing a sensation of "I knew this, but didn't realize that this is what the this is."
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@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Had a good conversation with a co-worker (a dev in the IT dept, newer to the field than I) for the last 30 minutes about dealing with business challenges. Despite being almost done with year 4 in IT, really in the last eight months or I've begun to realize what IT's actual place is in the world of business (see the various threads about what is IT). It's curious as I come to these realizations I'm experiencing a sensation of "I knew this, but didn't realize that this is what the this is."
There is a lot of that in IT. It's so informal that people kind of guess and no one really says things or writes them down.
