I haven't worked a day which wasn't at least ten hours. the avreage is about 11 to 12 hours in a day. 15 hours aren't at all uncommon. The work is fun if a bit frustrating at times.
I will have potential to excercise my unix networking skills, my programming skills, and learn more about each as I continue in the job. I am mostly doing computer maintenance and backups on machines at the moment. We go to each school and clean up and repair the machines there. Basically just get them ready to go for the school year. A lot of spyware andware and viruses are the norm. The average user really has no idea what they put their poor machine through as they go about their daily online lives. I've seen machines so infested they take an hour to finish booting. Some machines are unfixable and have to be wiped and reloaded. The data in those situations is usually not recovered. Luckily the company is taking steps to cut down on what the users are allowed to do in an attempt cut down on some of it.
So there you have it. The current lowdown on my job. not its time to go vegetate and let my brain recover from the past three weeks.
Posted by jeremy at July 14, 2004 09:02 PM | TrackBackHows it looking for your probationary period? You think they will take you on permanent?
Posted by: Jason Wall at July 15, 2004 09:04 AMSo far as I know I will be around but it's pretty volatile at the moment so I won't really no until the summer is over. I am on the list of people to keep though so unless that changes I'll be permanent.
Posted by: jeremy at July 15, 2004 04:10 PMRock. On.
Posted by: Jason Wall at July 16, 2004 10:59 AM