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jmartinez
06-09-2003, 02:19 PM
I have been in the sys admin gig for 4 and 1/2 years....I am tired of the constant nonsense from my endusers...I am only 23 years and know there is more to computers then this!
I have dealt with alot these years from win 3.1 tech support all the way to linux boxes as well as countless IBM servers...printers of all kinds, you name it I have probably done it. I want something to move on to...Any ideas or better yet anyone hiring. :D
RWiggum
06-09-2003, 03:02 PM
Throw away all your possessions and move into an abandoned building in the warehouse district. On Saturday nights, set up underground bare-knuckle boxing matches in the basement of your favorite local pub. Get your old employer to give you travel vouchers at company expense to keep you from revealing all the horrible things your old company does to the general public. Use said vouchers to travel to all major cities in the country and set up new clubs for men to enjoy underground bare-knuckle boxing matches. Long term goal: Subvert the Dominant Paradigm.
Originally posted by RWiggum
Throw away all your possessions and move into an abandoned building in the warehouse district. On Saturday nights, set up underground bare-knuckle boxing matches in the basement of your favorite local pub. Get your old employer to give you travel vouchers at company expense to keep you from revealing all the horrible things your old company does to the general public. Use said vouchers to travel to all major cities in the country and set up new clubs for men to enjoy underground bare-knuckle boxing matches. Long term goal: Subvert the Dominant Paradigm.
That sounds like a Tyler Durden lifestyle, oh i mean Fight club :D
myshkin
06-09-2003, 03:12 PM
Originally posted by Yorsh
That sounds like a Tyler Durden lifestyle, oh i mean Fight club :D
HEY! youre not suppose to talk about it!
RHLinuxNewbie
06-09-2003, 03:47 PM
Try some programming. It may be boring at times, but sometimes it can be fun. I'm sure it's a lot better then trying to people explain about how they can't burn a cd with a normal cdrom (I've actually heard this one), or how they just got a "new version of the internet" on a new AOL disk yet all the sites are the same.
klackenfus
06-09-2003, 04:13 PM
I think you have totally missed the point of Systems Administration. I started professionally in this business in 1995, I had done it as an amatuer since 1988. Systems Administration, in any form, is about P-O-W-E-R. Oh sure, you get the typical [L]users that will always think they dropped the token ring into the ethernet and that's why AOL is no longer working, etc, etc. However, these dolts are what make this business wonderful!!! Remember, Systems Administration is like dealing heroin (or pick any other addictive substance.) The goal is to be very nice and patient with your users and solve all their problems with a cheerful attitude. Do this for six months or so and they'll wonder how the organization ever ran without you. Then, they're hooked! Now, you'll still be very responsive and cheerful but golly, this cube of mine is just too small for me to take your box apart to clean the dust out of your chassis. That empty office from the VP of HR sure looks nice! After all, it's just been sitting empty since he got laid off due to the economy. Just be cheerful and stoic and remember people on the street would do your job for peanuts these days, so it's not your skills that are valuable but rather, the addicitve nature of the fact that it would take a new person so long to learn the cryptic system you've developed and never bothered writing down (ha! ha! ha!) So, one night you get a neck pain from cramming you body underneath your cube to retrieve that screwdriver you dropped. Unfortunately, you'll have to be off the next day. Of course, the next day the boss gets locked out because his account has been disabled on the domain controller and poor you has to limp back to the office to fix things. Gosh, if you only had that office, he wouldn't have had to suck two hours of downtime! I haven't done this topic justice. Google to the Bastard Operator From Hell and read the archives, to truly learn from a master. Oh and in case anyone is wondering, yes, I love my office, the door is solid oak and makes such a lovely sound when I close it to arrange lunch dates with housewives I've met online! Remember..."be happy in your work."
RWiggum
06-09-2003, 05:20 PM
Originally posted by Yorsh
That sounds like a Tyler Durden lifestyle, oh i mean Fight club :D
I don't have any idea what you're talking about. Who's Tyler Durden?
Originally posted by RWiggum
I don't have any idea what you're talking about. Who's Tyler Durden?
I think he's talking about that guy in the movie Fight Club... but I don't know, I didn't see that movie.
RWiggum
06-10-2003, 12:27 AM
Neither did I. I was describing my own particular plans for the future. I am not my khakis. ;)
MorphiusFaydal
06-10-2003, 01:00 AM
or the BOFH, and his lovely assistant, the PFY (Pmply Faced Youth)
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
have fun
the newer ones are posted at
http://www.theregister.com/content/30/index.html
theyre great
hes my hero, role model, goal in life, hes great
fun
noidea
06-10-2003, 04:34 AM
4 and a half years? That long? I threw the towel already after 9 months and went into AS/400 admin.
No more dimwits who store their budget data under "my documents" and wonder why it was not backupped by the server.
No more idiots calling you after hours to check their home PC for virusses and then complain the other day that you disable their A drive.at work.
No more morons wondering that a server reboot takes 20 minutes while their Windows at home is up within 2 minutes.
I could go on, but ran out of bad words.
AS/400 admin really rocks.
A nice and quiet work environment.
The only problems I had was with users who couldn't remember their password on a monday morning.
Though our whole production was depending on the AS/400 it was absolutely stress free. You are totally the boss.
While everybody knows anything about PC's (they think), in the AS/400 world the endusers actually listen to you.
jmartinez
06-10-2003, 02:08 PM
u hiring?
Originally posted by myshkin
HEY! youre not suppose to talk about it!
:D :D :D :D
Originally posted by RWiggum
Neither did I. I was describing my own particular plans for the future. I am not my khakis. ;)
LOL!!!
Oh, well...im very happy today, thank God, i've been awarded a $$$ schoolarship. Hope it lasts.
jmartinez
06-10-2003, 03:22 PM
No more dimwits who store their budget data under "my documents" and wonder why it was not backupped by the server.
No more idiots calling you after hours to check their home PC for virusses and then complain the other day that you disable their A drive.at work.
No more morons wondering that a server reboot takes 20 minutes while their Windows at home is up within 2 minutes.
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sounds like my daily trek...look at some examples...http://www.neosystems.org