Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab
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I don't at the moment. Combination of dying hardware which I haven't replaced yet, and new job which is taking up a lot of my time. That combined with some other life stuff has put it on the back burner. I'll get it set up again eventually, when I have something pressing that I really want to play with. I do miss having it a bit when answering questions. The type of things where I'm 99% sure that it works the way I think it does, but before I open my mouth in a post I just want to verify.
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@Patrick welcome to the community!
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@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@guyinpv said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
That type of on-call situation is stressful. If I make one mistake and say I'm driving out the woods and don't have signal and don't realize it, then horror of horrors someone tried to contact me for an hour and now I have a black mark on my "performance report" for slow turn around time. It's just a horrid way to live as far as what I just described.
I used to have that happen all of the time, but normally because I was in the office where people would pull me into meetings away from my phone, email, IM, etc. Going home is what let me answer the calls.
It's certainly a paradigm shift.
Do you have examples of where it was necessary to point out an employee whose output was not up to par? Where does freedom of time end and "let's get some work done here fella" begin?
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@scottalanmiller Thank you!
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@guyinpv said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
Do you have examples of where it was necessary to point out an employee whose output was not up to par? Where does freedom of time end and "let's get some work done here fella" begin?
It's really all about productivity. It should never, in theory, be about "let's get work done here", but rather "let's get work done"
Yes, certainly some people just can't work and get stuff done. Rarely does it become a problem, the pursuit of passion really works great at preventing that problem for the most part.
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I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
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@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
Just lets you move on to another client that is ready to work with you!
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@StrongBad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
Just lets you move on to another client that is ready to work with you!
Says the guy using Lappy 486 to answer emails.
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@guyinpv said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@StrongBad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
Just lets you move on to another client that is ready to work with you!
Says the guy using Lappy 486 to answer emails.
Checkin' ma emails.
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@guyinpv said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@StrongBad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
Just lets you move on to another client that is ready to work with you!
Says the guy using Lappy 486 to answer emails.
Pine is still a perfectly viable email client, lol.
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@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@guyinpv said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@StrongBad said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
I'm like that... I want to help folks ge ttheir IT problems fixed... I really, really do. But I can't stand it when I'm working with a client and they take days or weeks to get back to me on something. Argh!
Just lets you move on to another client that is ready to work with you!
Says the guy using Lappy 486 to answer emails.
Pine is still a perfectly viable email client, lol.
Pine is to new for me, mutt is my bread'n'butter command line mail client
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A guy at my last office still used Pine when we went to O365. I don't think he ever got it working with it that I know of.
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I used Pine as my first email client. I remember those days well.
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IMO if someone doesn't have a home lab of some sort they don't truly care about IT as a whole. Would I hire a hardware geek on the other hand? Yes, chances are this person knows at the very least BIOS configurations, tons of software solutions and has basic troubleshooting skills. I guess it would really come down to the role I was hiring this person for in the end.
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@zuphzuph said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
IMO if someone doesn't have a home lab of some sort they don't truly care about IT as a whole.
Exactly. It's plausible that they still are passionate about IT, but they'd have to make a pretty good case for what was a good alternative (like their job provided an unlimited lab and they worked around the clock....something unique.)
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@zuphzuph said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
Would I hire a hardware geek on the other hand? Yes, chances are this person knows at the very least BIOS configurations, tons of software solutions and has basic troubleshooting skills. I guess it would really come down to the role I was hiring this person for in the end.
Maybe for bench work. Hardware geeks tend to hate IT.
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@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@zuphzuph said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
Would I hire a hardware geek on the other hand? Yes, chances are this person knows at the very least BIOS configurations, tons of software solutions and has basic troubleshooting skills. I guess it would really come down to the role I was hiring this person for in the end.
Maybe for bench work. Hardware geeks tend to hate IT.
Hmm... I must be the exception, I only ended up in IT after building PCs as a child. Still a hardware nerd to this day, by having the occasional problem/issue I learned basic desktop troubleshooting.
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@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
@zuphzuph said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:
Would I hire a hardware geek on the other hand? Yes, chances are this person knows at the very least BIOS configurations, tons of software solutions and has basic troubleshooting skills. I guess it would really come down to the role I was hiring this person for in the end.
Maybe for bench work. Hardware geeks tend to hate IT.
I never really liked doing hardware stuff -- I can, and I do, but I'm far better at software-side. One of the reason Pops and I work so well together, lol.
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I don't mind working the range between hardware and actual IT, it breaks up the day. What I do dislike is things like such as troubleshooting non-working mice, or monitor issues.
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@DustinB3403 Unplug it, plug it back in. Reboot it... Replace it... easy-peasy!
