Yesterday was a 20 hour day. Today promising to be a little more normal. Summer is the busy season around here since most of the clients are schools. I'm enjoying the work right now despite the fact that it is really just a glorified janitor job for computer harddrives. You do still find the challenging user who somehow managed to mangle their OS beyond all recognition. It looks like I will be seeing some opportunities for coding too. They are looking for updates to there help\trouble ticket site and also for new utilities to help automate some of the more routine maintenance tasks, not to mention the need for a unified way of keeping hardware and software inventory lists for each school in a central and easily accessible location.
Once I have settled in enough I also plan to start pushing the use of alternative browsers and email clients such as firefox and thunderbird. Some of these computers have been heavily infested with spyware and viruses. The winner of the week so far? a computer from office number 38 with a grand total of 450+ viruses at final count.
Well so long for now I'll keep you folks updated as I can.
Posted by jeremy at July 1, 2004 02:22 PM | TrackBack