What Am I Today?
Good question.
First of all, I’m talking about work, not my personal life. So, no, you may not speculate on what kind of degenerate, misogynistic, low-life I am. Besides, there are already plenty of bottom-feeders who are doing that. No, now that I’m a on-man IT department again, I wear a lot of hats.
Last week, I was a data security officer, a helpdesk, a Microsoft Excel Developer, a graphics designer, a server administrator and a web master. This week, so far, I have been a helpdesk, a Macintosh administrator, a server administrator and a web master. But, it’s only Tuesday.
Oh, I also had a rather uncomfortable teleconference hearing with the Texas Workforce Commision regarding my requested benefits. Still waiting to see if I’m going to get that one week of unemployment or not. Good thing I didn’t need it, eh? But, I have to say, the entire hearing process was, well, really, er, “icky”. No matter what some people may have said about me in the past, I really don’t like confrontational situations like that. I can handle them, and handle them well, I might add, but I don’t really like them. Just something that I have to do from time to time. One of the many things I don’t like that I have managed to do well at anyway. Of course, I’ll have to wait and see how well I really did this morning, but I think it went well.
I would love to work for a small company as a one-man IT Department. No, I’m not crazy, I just like variety. I envy you once again.
Comment by MightyKong — 6/7/2005 @ 9:47 pm
Oh, don’t be too jealous. The variety is nice, sure, but there’s no one else to go to for advice on stuff and *any* computer problem is my resposibility, even when someone else developed the program/database/spreadsheet or whatever. Besides, you don’t want to have to have paid the prices I have to be where I am. Trust me on this one. The personal costs were way higher than I care to think about. That’s one reason why I’m alone with my dog while my wife is, well, elsewhere, and we’re getting divorced. A high price indeed. If I could make the same money digging ditches or flipping burgers, I’d to that instead these days.
Comment by the Network Geek — 6/7/2005 @ 10:22 pm
I completely understand about the not having anyone to go to for advice thing. While I was still in college, I went the whole freelance route, thinking that it would be great experience and loose hours. Don’t get me wrong, it has been, but now that I’m trying to get into a steady position, it turns out the freelance stuff is really frowned upon.
It’s been a year since I graduated and I’m still doing freelance. I love the work, but I hate the accounting end of it — the billing and collecting. I would love nothing more than just to go to one place everyday, AuTOMATic DEPO$it sounds SOOoooo good.
Anyways, what I do for advice is, I joined a local chapter of NUI and Mindshare, so I have a pool of people whose knowledge I can draw on.
Ever the bull in the china shop, I’m posting the link to the local IT group in your area:
Association of Information Technology Professionals – Houston
http://www.aitphouston.org/
Comment by MightyKong — 6/7/2005 @ 11:07 pm