Network Enginer

[Valentine]

I switched to nursing...I still have to deal with people but I get to stab them with needles now. It's much more satisfying. The money is as good or better, too, and there's something about a 2-day work week that really appeals to me.

[The Crazy Animal]

At least nursing is in demand still and not being swamped by technical school and MCdiploma schools that result in workers that don?t know how to do required tasks...

[The Crazy Animal]

You forgot to mention that all the essays to get accepted fit on the back of a match pack.

[Gaiden]

flip side to this brings back memories-i've spent 30 plus years as a mechanic , and the thing i enjoy is the learning/networking with my computers. guess the grass is always greener over there huh

[The Crazy Animal]

Grin, I still enjoy learning new networking stuff for myself I just can't deal with working as an IT person anymore the continual problems of the end-users and general incompetence in the work place just pisses me off too much.

Imagine it this way you change a person?s oil in their car and tell them if they don?t regularly change it and keep the oil topped off they are going to have engine problems. Now you know this car burns oil so you tell them you will need to keep an eye on it. They bring the car back to you and say the engine will no longer turn over and they want you to fix it. You spend hours fixing it and get it working again and tell them it happened because they ran out of oil and the engine seized. You tell them again that if they don?t keep putting the oil in the car it will happen again. Low and behold they bring the car back again to you and say the engine will no longer turn over.  Again, you spend hours fixing it and get it working again you tell them the same thing and you write it really big on their bill. What do you know they bring the car back again with the same problem. How many times will it take you fixing the same problem before you can?t deal with it anymore.

Now here?s the ketch it?s a company car you are employed for the company and if you are mean to the person you can loose your job and to make matters worse there are over 15 of these people causing the same problems over and over again...



TCA

[DeathCow]

hahaha

[Kerrida]

Yes but as a network admin you can be a BOFH.. I meant BMFH just doesnt seem quite as catchy.. could be read as a nasty toilet problem  >:D

[Stylez]

As a developer also, I agree with about 99% of Vitoc's post :)   Only difference is that we actually stay up to date there, so I was working on 2.0 the day it released.

That said... there is a huge problem I run into on a daily basis.  The AS400...

After I started at this place, I found out, that nightly, 80% of the tables are DTS'd directly to the SQL Server from the AS400 databases.  And, they're all exact copies... no indexes, no normalization, no nothin...  and they wonder why their performance is in the toilet...

All this crap is in production, and I'm not allowed to adjust any of the tables due to so many applications using them.

Did I mention also, that all of these tables exist in a single sql database?

They actually had the nerve to get pissy when I told them that looking at they're database design was making me dumber...

Now the company is merging with another that has a second AS400, and they're trying to figure out how to merge them with our existing SQL Server...

You know what that means?  f it, time to look for a new job lol

[DeathCow]

btw i'm thinking I'm back to 100%..so i should have some more updates....


i took modern medicine



I f'd it in the ass...it sucks...I fixed myself...


anti depressants suck..............real fixes invovle biology..not chemisty.

[Draige]

So you got laid?

[DeathCow]

^^