How did you get started in IT?
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geezz this thread is almost 3 years old.
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Talk about necroposting @scottalanmiller !
My story is relatively short... Pops brought home a TI-99 and showed me how to type on it, and I was hooked.
I pretty much never walked away from computers after that. I've seen everything from an AS/400 to 8088 systems, 8086 systems, and up.
By 10, I was getting paid by neighbors to fix their computers, lol... and I never looked back.
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In 2003, started college and while in school I volunteered. In 2005, I was offered a part-time job at the college. And in 2006, I was offered a full time job at the college.
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Same as everyone else I think, killed my boss. As he was dying, mortally wounded by my sword, he whispered the admin credentials to me. As is tradition.
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@Dashrender said in How did you get started in IT?:
geezz this thread is almost 3 years old.
How can anyone find this old stuff?
I can't find stuff in threads from yesterday with the search.
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@BRRABill said in How did you get started in IT?:
@Dashrender said in How did you get started in IT?:
geezz this thread is almost 3 years old.
How can anyone find this old stuff?
I can't find stuff in threads from yesterday with the search.
Umm... Google?
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@BRRABill said in How did you get started in IT?:
@dafyre said
Umm... Google?
Bah. I like to use the search box and struggle for 15 minutes.
Me too, ha ha.
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@BRRABill said in How did you get started in IT?:
@Dashrender said in How did you get started in IT?:
geezz this thread is almost 3 years old.
How can anyone find this old stuff?
I can't find stuff in threads from yesterday with the search.
Tags.
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I guess I've always been in it. My dad had a side business and ran a PDP 11 for his company. He did all of their internal IT also. He gave me a Tandy 1000 when I was around 3 and it had a game called Amy's First Primer http://www.danielsays.com/ss-gallery-dos-sw-amys-first-primer-12.html
Load the truck was the best!Then moved to a 386 and then a 486. We had a program called HDM IV (I think). It gave us a menu interface that we could assign programs to. I mostly used it for games (like Wolfenstein 3D and Doom). I also did my 5th grade science fair project on the internal parts of a PC.
As I got older I started helping him with his business. I had a couple classes in high school and college. I was hired as a project engineer before I graduated and I did a lot of help desk stuff for them since internal IT was in a different area. I ended up starting my own consulting business which wasn't a super success money wise but I learned a ton by doing that. When Bentley was born I started working for a small manufacturing shop. Now I'm a systems engineer/administrator for a fortune 1000.
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@MattSpeller said in How did you get started in IT?:
Same as everyone else I think, killed my boss. As he was dying, mortally wounded by my sword, he whispered the admin credentials to me. As is tradition.
Was their lightening? I remember vaguely being electrocuted after beheading the previous admin.
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@coliver said in How did you get started in IT?:
@MattSpeller said in How did you get started in IT?:
Same as everyone else I think, killed my boss. As he was dying, mortally wounded by my sword, he whispered the admin credentials to me. As is tradition.
Was their lightening? I remember vaguely being electrocuted after beheading the previous admin.
Classic!
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I've always loved computer, they're logical, whereas people almost never are. Actually started as an assistant to the sole IT person at the county Career Center. I ended up as said assistant because nobody else knew a thing about computers/networking and I was in a program that was supposed to give me some training in that. One of the best things that could've happened for me, as I got a little real-world IT experience while still in high school, and also other business basics like accounting and management principals (or, what people say they should be anyway.) So I can have conversations with accounting, finance, marketing, etc and have a clue.
Spent two years getting a worthless piece of paper. "Associates of Computer Repair and Network Technician" between 1997 and 1999. During that same time I was working for a large car parts manufacturing plant as an IT Co-op, where I was hired on after graduating and continued to work there till 2002.
And that's where I got started.
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Pinging on this as it is a good topic and it would be great to see new stories coming out of it.
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I've always been into electronics and how things work. My first real summer job in HS (apart from yardwork / babysitting etc) was a student position setting up a CAP (Community Access Program) site, basically a gov't sponsored location where people could get online or get general computer and internet exposure. From there it was a long and winding road through an attempt at university (2 yrs) and a 7 year run doing customer service and tech support in a couple of different call centers. Due to "restructuring" I was able to return to school with gov't assistance and did a 2 yr college program in Networking and Security..... Got into Linux because I got fed up with having to fight with windows and overpriced software, cut my teeth on Slackware back in 2004 or so.
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@Bill-Kindle said in How did you get started in IT?:
handed me a CD and that boot floppy said good luck and to make sure I brought back his CD.
But did you give back the CD or not? Five years is far too long to leave us hanging.
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My story: I studied nuclear science, I loved my classes... yes that's a song but it's actually true so I said it that way. What's funny is during that time I was doing some computer stuff for people, learning to program for fun on my own time, and then because people stopped making nuclear weapons I ended up getting a job programming for one of the world's largest ISPs (more like an internet gateway at the time) working on their new fangled Instant Messaging system, then I did some other IT work after I was downsized because management was absolutely stupid in every possible way. I realised I could make more money doing it myself than working for someone else and it went from there. It came easier to me than it does a lot of people and I'm not sure why. The only certifications I ever got were because an employer wanted me to or because in some cases vendors required one for some dumbass reason.
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@tonyshowoff said in How did you get started in IT?:
world's largest ISPs (more like an internet gateway at the time)
Was it AOL?
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@coliver said in How did you get started in IT?:
@tonyshowoff said in How did you get started in IT?:
world's largest ISPs (more like an internet gateway at the time)
Was it AOL?
Ssh, it's a secret
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@coliver said in How did you get started in IT?:
@tonyshowoff said in How did you get started in IT?:
world's largest ISPs (more like an internet gateway at the time)
Was it AOL?
It's like SOL, but one step worse.
