What Are You Doing Right Now
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@StuartJordan said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Site down for a few mins?
Yeah, we did an OS and application update.
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Had a few days to use before the end of the year.. so here I sit,.. about to take some HR trainings as the hotwater tank is being replaced.. (eye roll-face palm).
I am happy it's lasted as long as it has... eighteen years. So,.. there is that.
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@gjacobse That's a seriously old tank!
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I've been down with some congestion thing for two weeks. Been doing a lot of video gaming, trying to keep things simple and rest.
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just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.
Merry Christmas. Hope you and your family have a good one.
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Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..
Merry Christmas and long time!
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..
Merry Christmas and long time!
Nice, where are you working now?
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
just saying hello and merry christmas or whatever it is to you at this time of year.
Merry Christmas!!
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@siringo saw you mention the qualifications thing... wondering what you meant. What are "qualifications"? We had certs here in the US market 20+ years ago, but those got discredited after a few years and experience became the only real qualification. Wondering what you are seeing there that are called qualification and isn't experience? That's the opposite of what I've seen.
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Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
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2024 is a "big" year for me in my career...
35 years working in IT and software engineering
25 years at NTG specificallyWow that makes you feel old. 2024 is the year that I will have had more time working in my career than my dad did in his before retirement! He retired at 34 years in his field (but 38 years total working.) I'll be 35 years in my field (but just 35 years total working.)
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..
Merry Christmas and long time!
Nice, where are you working now?
A company out of Buffalo, I'm basically fully remote.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Working on cleaning up a new gigs XCP-ng backups, getting drivers installed and documenting everything..
Merry Christmas and long time!
Nice, where are you working now?
A company out of Buffalo, I'm basically fully remote.
Nice, congrats.
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@scottalanmiller thanks!
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@siringo saw you mention the qualifications thing... wondering what you meant. What are "qualifications"? We had certs here in the US market 20+ years ago, but those got discredited after a few years and experience became the only real qualification. Wondering what you are seeing there that are called qualification and isn't experience? That's the opposite of what I've seen.
Yeah, thought that post was a bit too moany, so I canned the post.
Re qualifications, I meant University or College and that really only applies to certain employers. I got my MCSE and back in the day my Novell MCNE, but they made no difference to anything but my knowledge.
I've not progressed to the level of seniority I should be at. I'm a real IT nerd in one way, that being that I go to pieces when in front of more than 3 people, where's my rock, why did I ever leave it?
I can present and articulate very well, but in person, nuh, I'm outta there.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
2024 is a "big" year for me in my career...
35 years working in IT and software engineering
25 years at NTG specificallyWow that makes you feel old. 2024 is the year that I will have had more time working in my career than my dad did in his before retirement! He retired at 34 years in his field (but 38 years total working.) I'll be 35 years in my field (but just 35 years total working.)
First job at 14 in a garage.
First job in electronics, early 80s.
First job in IT in 89.
Ha, that's 35 years as well. Bugger me. I've blasted past My father so have my siblings and with the cost of living on steroids, we all may work into our 70s?
It's a great time to be alive.
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@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized that 2024 will be TWENTY YEARS since IBM shed its Intel server and end point business (sold it to Lenovo.) It's been a full two decades and people still regularly mistake laptops as being IBM devices today. That's like 4-5 IT generations later.
Ha. Was thinking about this the other day. Wasn't one of the big things with that was that Lenovo were a Chinese company?
Oh, I'll never buy one of those.
Being a Chinese company has nothing to do with why I'd never touch Lenovo and recommend any company that has them immediately replace Lenovo gear.
