What Are You Doing Right Now
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller still, is there only 1 employer in Nebraska?
I really think WRCombs is simply failing at these interviews if he's not actually looking and applying.
No many jobs have sent me rejection emails ; Going a different way, not qualified.
Not failing at interviews, not even getting in the door.Then use a head hunting company to find positions for you. Certainly they would have a litany of potential openings that you could apply to.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Lastly.
Find another job already. You're being taken advantage of.
working on it.
There HAS to be somewhere better than this. It's hard to believe that just about anything wouldn't be an improvement, and that there aren't places looking to hire. What do you feel is holding you back from finding something else? What limiting factors seem to be coming up? It's been a year now, at least, and you have already saturated the experience potential of the shop that you are in.
Security, Having a job while i'm finding another. It's not lack of trying, it's lack of knowledge, so I'm working on getting the knowledge to go.
Nothing is holding me back, Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now, Can't take much of a cut. -
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?It never hurts to learn, the question is what are you practicing with Hyper-V? Setting up the interfaces and creating a few VM's?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?It never hurts to learn, the question is what are you practicing with Hyper-V? Setting up the interfaces and creating a few VM's?
Sounds like a great Idea.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
Care to post a sanitized version of it for review?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Except going somewhere where I'll get less Pay to start out. It's hard at 36k /yr right now,
Don't offer your self to any position for less that what you make currently, that's just insane.
You said you aren't even getting to an interview with any of these potential positions and I really have to wonder how that is. Are these positions so coveted in Nebraska that as soon as something opens up a perfect fit is found immediately?
I'm just not the fit apparently.
Are you certain that there isn't just some glaring issue with your resume?
Dont think so.
Care to post a sanitized version of it for review?
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?Single host Hyper V operation is very simple. I wrote an article over at @StarWind_Software's blog a while ago which explains the basic networking stuff (the articles there are all great). Could be a good starting point.
More advanced topics include things like backups, MAC spoofing (required by VPNs, for example), VLANs vs multiple NICs (important for VPNs and firewalls for example), resource allocation, correct snapshot usage, different virtual disk types, underlying storage architecture (beware, that's the personal topic of @scottalanmiller :p) etc. IMHO, backups and the underlying storage are by far the most important things to learn.
I prefer the learning-by-doing approach. You could, for example, build a working VPN server. Try SoftEther on a Linux VM, a really cool and free to use multiprotocol VPN server. Let it authenticate inbound SSTP connections against your Active Directory. Or play around with Veeam B&R.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Spinning up my server 2019 VM with AD, thinking I need practice with Hyper-V as well..
thought?Single host Hyper V operation is very simple. I wrote an article over at @StarWind_Software's blog a while ago which explains the basic networking stuff (the articles there are all great). Could be a good starting point.
More advanced topics include things like backups, MAC spoofing (required by VPNs, for example), VLANs vs multiple NICs (important for VPNs and firewalls for example), resource allocation, correct snapshot usage, different virtual disk types, underlying storage architecture (beware, that's the personal topic of @scottalanmiller :p) etc. IMHO, backups and the underlying storage are by far the most important things to learn.
I prefer the learning-by-doing approach. You could, for example, build a working VPN server. Try SoftEther on a Linux VM, a really cool and free to use multiprotocol VPN server. Let it authenticate inbound SSTP connections against your Active Directory. Or play around with Veeam B&R.
Thanks, I'll look into that.
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Sitting around a large office waiting for a phone port from HyperCore to Skyetel to complete so that we can check all the phones that we just installed.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sitting around a large office waiting for a phone port from HyperCore to Skyetel to complete so that we can check all the phones that we just installed.
umm WTF?
You use old school *67 call forwarding or carrier call forwarding during the pre port timeframe.
then you already know everytihng is working because you were jsut forwarding to a SKyetel purchased number already.
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Boss just Told me I only had 1 hour and 45 minutes for my day at home because thats what I have in billable hours on customer tickets....
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Boss just Told me I only had 1 hour and 45 minutes for my day at home because thats what I have in billable hours on customer tickets....
Tell you boss to suck a dick and walk. Is that in writing what your boss said?
I'd go to the employment office right the fuck now and get this place hit with a bus.
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His exact words were "You only have 1 hour and 45 minutes in billable hours to customers. why'd you put 7 hours on your time sheet? "
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@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
His exact words were "You only have 1 hour and 45 minutes in billable hours to customers. why'd you put 7 hours on your time sheet? "
then I explained what I did for the day and what all I got done.Then he responded with, "I'm only paying you for 1 hour and 45 minutes", there is no fucking way I'd let that slide.
Shit if you smoke, take a pen and flatten two of this fucks car tires.
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
His exact words were "You only have 1 hour and 45 minutes in billable hours to customers. why'd you put 7 hours on your time sheet? "
then I explained what I did for the day and what all I got done.Then he responded with, "I'm only paying you for 1 hour and 45 minutes", there is no fucking way I'd let that slide.
Shit if you smoke, take a pen and flatten two of this fucks car tires.
He just nodded and left it alone for now.
My GM is in the office today. SO i'm gonna talk to her about it.
