@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?

https://mangolassi.it/topic/21153/resume

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got my first bad review in my year and a half of employment.
So there's that.

Did you get your updated resume out there yet?

Updated Resume has been sent to 3 Consulting Firms Locally.

@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just Secured an Interview for a Job I'm not sure I actually want but willing to hear them out. We'll See.

At this point, take ANYTHING.

lol - well, it might not be IT, assuming that's where he wants to continue forward....

No, It's in the field but it's not IT work. It's an IT company that does 5 different things and the position is Sales, Uncapped.
Weirdly enough Im only hearing him out because I need the interviewing experience.

Put out about 3 fires this morning before I even had a second cup of coffee.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

high and dry.

maybe you can find a drummer with one arm too!

That's a different way to think about it. Thanks!
I'll probably ask for more information about it.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@WrCombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Microsoft edge is rude, to open up like that right off the bat when you log into a PC for the first time after an update .

In every conceivable way. It's awful.

I just opened up a windows 7 machine for the first time to make sure everything was still working, right?
before the restaurant opened.
and it took forever to even open the damn program. I didn't even tell it to open.

@pmoncho said in Huge Mistake:

@WrCombs said in Huge Mistake:

So let me start this off by saying if I hadn't listened to my boss first thing this morning, this mistake wouldn't have happened. but god forbid he say he was wrong.

Okay: so, Went and picked up a PC from a customer: the plan as it was said to me was

• Pick up PC

*Bring back to office, put 2 new HDD's in and pull over the information after we image it.

*take it back and install it at the site again.

So, what actually happened?

Brought the PC back, boss told me to stop, he has an idea.
Reformat one of the Hard drives we have here, on that PC and then have the FakeRAID we use rebuild the information, then test the PC to run a terminal and verify it works properly.

So I added the other drive to the PC. Little did I know (nor did I check) the Optical drive was set to boot first (which is where I added this Drive to the PC ). It came up as C: and the PC I wanted to load as C: loaded as D:

so when I opened cmd and typed in
format d: and pressed enter, I wiped all of the customer data from the Drives..

it wasnt until I noticed a program we don't use on aloha PC's was when I realized what I had done.

My Tuesday Fuck up in a nutshell. -- Let's all take a moment to give me shit for this colossal screw up.

we already downloaded a Software to Recover lost partitions and I have that running right now .

Sorry man.... I had a huge F'up in my career about 20 years ago. Fess up to it, fix it the best you can, eat crow, learn from it and never do it again. That is all you can do from this moment on.

From my F'up, I learned to "slow down, verify and think before hitting enter or clicking "yes""

Yeah, pretty rough. going to try fixing it with this software that's running.
But, I told him as soon as I saw what I did, took ownership because as @Obsolesce pointed out, I didn't verify what I was formatting before hitting enter.

Update: Got the Drive recovered after many failed attempts. It's at 75% right now. only cost $50 for a month subscription. Looks like we are back in business.

Just had an interesting conversation with a coworker from our Ankeny (Des Moines) office about one of our sites here in Omaha.. which is an adult entertainment venue... Thought it was funny enough to share here:
C- They wanted a way to connect into their site. we got them loaded with NCR's Secure access for customers, their complaining. Want to move to Teamviewer, told them it had to be PCI compliant.

Me- Hey thanks for helping out. but, uh.. it doesn't need to be PCI compliant.. They dont take credit cards, and they aren't selling to customers.. they use their pos to track the contractors times in and out of rooms/spaces/stage so that the contractors can pay their evening rent.

C- Yeah so, I told them That it was properly their internet. I dont see why it wouldn't need to be PCI compliant though..

Me - Its a strip club. They dont server food or alcohol for legal reasons ( no license to do either) They're a Preforming arts center where the Girls rent the rooms and are employed as Contractors. They don't use Credit cards to pay off their rent at the end of the night.. I mean I never did when I was dancing there (joking obviously)

C- You used to Strip????

Happy Monday Folks.

Still plugging away on the Network Plus Videos - 2 a day.

This thread will contain Links to my project threads as I make them.

The goal is to learn and keep things all together while I'm learning so I can reference back.

Got the appraisal back on my house - they're appraising it at what I asked for the loan on, so looks like In 10 Days I'll own a home !
But for now, Coffee number 1 day, grabbing #2 and going through the weekend stuff

Honestly some people shouldn't work with any kind of technology.
: "My internets down, this isn't working / That isnt working "
"Okay, Can you restart the Modem? then the Router? "

"what do you mean? I call you to fix this stuff. You can't connect in and fix it??"

"No.. You said it yourself, you dont have internet..how am I supposed to connect into your site using internet that isn't working..."

"what do we pay you for then?"

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Narrowing down a problem with Audacity and Fedora 33.

The audacity - In my Grinch Voice

I spent all of yesterday watching "Kung Fu" from the 1970's in between studying

Just paid my Mortgage (not due til the 1st. but We don't get paid again until after then .. So now is the best time !
Starting on call, and I started Reading "1984" by George Orwell last night. Interesting little book.

Here's to the weekend cheers

Fixed a Unifi AP today over the phone.
My coworker told me to go on site so I called the guy.
10 minutes later, AP is online

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning everyone!

bah humbug

Officially 6 months into 2021! Where did the time go?