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@scottalanmiller Yeah, well I had animal crackers today! So there! lol Yours looks so delicious.

@Dashrender Looks like you just went to waxquixotic.com dashrender which isn't the entry point. sodium.waxquixotic.com is. http://sodium.waxquixotic.com/ will point you in the right direction.

@wirestyle22 said in When Is It Okay to Say You Are a System Administrator:

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Also notice, according to ASVAB... there is no title, whatsoever, for the ENTIRE SMB IT space. Not a single one.

And really - there probably shouldn't be. As mentioned - though not accepted by Scott - Generalist would not be acceptable to most people hiring in the SMB space, at least with my very limited exposure.

So of course, Scott's right - we should only 'talk' about correct things, and not have discussions around incorrect things - bad practices - but at the same time, knowing your audience and making your resume suit that situation is key.

Right, knowing the truth and knowing how to market are two different things. But you can't market well if you don't know the truth.

Then you have to decide if you are going to market well within the truth, or just lie.

So I either lie or I market myself poorly. Great.

Welcome to American employment

I'm not going to be a shitty person to make money, so I guess I'm choosing poverty

You are still assuming that I said you have to lie. But read what I actually wrote.

I do see it, but telling the truth is making myself non-competitive--not that I even consider it an option to lie.

WHY does telling the truth make you feel non-competitive?

Please don't start this conversation again lol. I'm actually just being honest, not having a pity party. The better question is what makes me competitive?

That's NOT the point. You keep redirecting. You keep feeling that telling someone something honest will not get you as far as lying. But is that really true? WHY do you feel that way? Good shops know when people are lying most of the time, so it limits those people to other kinds of work.

For some reason I wasn't notified of this reply. Weird. Anyway, Yeah I do think lying gets you further. I interviewed with ABC and they wanted someone who was a mac guru. I am not a mac guru, or basically a guru of anything. I said that I am by no means a mac guru, but I have my own home lab and self-teach constantly etc etc. I was attempting to prove that any effort they put into me would not be wasted. Well, as much as they appreciated my honesty they went with another dude. A friend of mine does master control for ABC and he said they asked this dude to do the most basic of things mac related (its' been awhile) and he didn't know how to do it. His boss then decided to just train the guy to be what they needed him to be.

Lying definitely helped that guy. He's making 90k+ a year right now with less knowledge than me.

That doesn't mean I would lie or that I endorse lying but in my experience it has paid off for everyone who has done it which is very unfortunate for honest people like me.

I think this is standard knowledge now at this point. Lying gets you further sadly. It's unethical, and wrong to do, I don't endorse it, nor would I do it myself but you're point is spot on.

@brrabill said in Shots for Scott:

So far I have gleaned this from the thread...

1. Scott likes alcohol and is not afraid of it (this I already knew)
2. People like posting pictures of cheerleaders in sports bras (this I already knew)

Pretty fair summary. 10/10 tl:dr

@scottalanmiller I have to say that I came here and was surprised that half of the conversation is pictures of toilets lol.

@Dashrender I did push through an update intended on fixing that bug so please let me know if it happens again. I'm going to keep an eye out for it as well as I continue to work on other things.

@scottalanmiller said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

@tim_g said in Just How Hard is University to Overcome:

For example...

if I came to you for a management position with only a bunch of IT experience with MCSEs and Linux certs

versus:

someone else coming to you with a bunch of IT experience, MCSEs and Linux certs, plus an MBA...

Which would you choose?

Depends, are ALL other things equal? Then the MBA is a bonus. But all other things are never, ever equal. That's one of the key tricks of this kind of thing - the MBA or the MCSE or the whatever always comes at a cost of something else. What is that other thing, that's the question.

This is actually a really good point I hadn't thought of. And I already disliked college.

@dustinb3403 said in MangoCon Countdown:

@scottalanmiller said in MangoCon Countdown:

If @QuixoticJeremy can get out of work a little early, maybe he can get there as well.

That dude better be out sick that day. . . (not really, but work doesn't read the forums, do they @QuixoticJeremy ?!)

Update: I now have Wednesday off

@RestoronixSean I'll be sure to let you know :). I still have some money left over from a steam gift card and I may know where that is headed now.

@scottalanmiller said in Applications Disappear:

So in my Sodium scan of my one laptop, I noticed that it did a great job initially of picking up applications installed on the laptop. After the laptop shut off (no idea if the two things are connected) the list of the applications became blank. Now it looks like it is not picking up the applications, but they were there earlier. So wondering why they disappeared.

Caught me just as I was going to bed, this issue has since been resolved. NOW I'm going to get some shut eye.

@jaredbusch said in Enterprise to IT Service\Software Company:

As the others have stated, 50 to 250 is a huge swing in the SMB.

There are a ton of risk factors involved.

It is nice that the company has a specific vertical that they are able to service, but how long have they been doing it.

How is the software actually written? How is it served? How is it kept up to date visually? How is it kept up to date technically?

You might not be a developer, but you need to know these types of things when you go work for a software company. These are the things that will keep the company in business or drive them to their competition (or spawn new competition).

Great points right here. Last position I was at was considerably outdated and weren't getting up to date very quickly. Due to this they were gradually losing clients to competitors. Being that they had literally the one product when I left they were in a scramble to get up to date. Being aware of how development is going, languages being used, approaches to other tech will help you get a grasp on what you are getting yourself into. There's a difference between getting paid 20% more to join a team or paid 20% more to save a company from going under.

@gjacobse said in MangoCon Countdown:

@minion-queen said in MangoCon Countdown:

1 day people!! Are you all ready? Cause I am positive I am not.

Don't feel bad. neither am I.

Is it possible to be fully ready though? Is that even a thing?

@scottalanmiller The wii and wii u were notoriously bad. Actually a large portion of the nintendo followers just stayed with the gamecube. Heck ssbm still has a massive following that is growing. Tourneys for like 10k prize for first. That being said the switch does seem to be doing far better than the wii/wiiu ever did.

@Dashrender Thanks for the update! I'm still looking into that login error as it actually happened to me this morning as well but cleared up on our side as well. Apparently my hotfix didn't completely remove the issue. I'll keep you posted as I keep looking into it. It looks to be happening far less but isn't perfect yet.

@Minion-Queen Got room for me?

@quixoticjustin said in MangoCon Countdown:

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@gjacobse said in MangoCon Countdown:

@minion-queen said in MangoCon Countdown:

1 day people!! Are you all ready? Cause I am positive I am not.

Don't feel bad. neither am I.

Is it possible to be fully ready though? Is that even a thing?

It's not even a goal.

That is basically my point of view as well.

Good luck

Haha next Con I'm going to make you do the talk :).

@travisdh1 Lol nintendo isn't my cup of tea to begin with. Not since gamecube/64 days. Just stating that it would seem that the switch seems to have garnered quite a bit of a following and I know quite a few people that like their switches. That being said, sucks that docking scratches the screen.

@DustinB3403 said in Applications Disappear:

@scottalanmiller Did you turn it off and on again?

Ironically that is exactly what he's going to do lmao. He'll turn it on again for data collection and then off again to verify that the hotfix did it's job. Which it will have

@Minion-Queen I'll help drive

@jaredbusch said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

@nerdydad said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

@quixoticjeremy said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

@brrabill said in What happens at MangoCon gets posted here for all to see 2017:

When you post pictures of people, can you tag them so newbies can start matching names to faces?

#watchingfromafar

I would try but I'm a newbie here as well. If you see anyone constantly wearing a black under armor sweatshirt and khakis the whole time, that's me.

Is that they only thing that you brought?

And only the one set

lmao you caught me...