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Originally posted here by Sgt_B
Hey Invictus! What part of Chicago you from? I work in the Nortel building in Schaumburg by Woodfield mall.
Lol...I also work in Schaumburg in the buildings behind the TGI Fridays on Algonquin rd. and I53.
Well that is my main office, but since I am a consultant, I am not usually there. Right now, I working in Chicago at Higgins and River Road.
Small world.....I pass the nortel building nearly every day...lol. What company do you work for? What town/city do you live in?
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It's an incestuous world...
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I work for Corus Americda Inc. (formerly British Steel). UK based company. We're on the 20th floor in the Nortel building. I live in Bloomingdale right next to Stratford Square mall. Man I eat at that Friday's about once a week or so!
haha, this is pretty funny.
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I used to live in roselle, and now I live in Streamwood. I go work out at the Lifetime Fitness Health Club in Bloomingdale (across from the mall) almost every day.
LMAO....
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Professional waster or student.
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i am a 21 year old associate information management specialist for the air force reserve base in pittsburgh, pa. i am responsible for a little bit of everything i suppose. mostly user level support and networking. of course security is a major issue here. i hold a secret clearance already and would like to earn top secret at some point. pretty much all my knowledge is self taught from experience. security and networking are my favorite areas of IT and would like to get into consulting on the side for both.
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I was hired as a C++/Java programmer but since it is a small company, I now develop software while acting as a UNIX admin. Luckily we have lots of capital so we have many nice Sun Servers. We also have an in house userbase of about 50 people, so I must listen to their stupidity and then ask my coworker to go deal with it. It isn't too easy juggling big and complex programming projects while keeping everything running smoothly and making enough to time to put you idiots down. But I manage, why? Because I am capable.
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umm lets see I am a serverly underpaid tech, with a CNA and CCNA, starting on the CCNP
No one wants to give me a real job because I am 19
and AT&T pays me **** for being a Senior tech,
But on the up hand I am juicing them to pay for me to go to school.
Besides that Life is ok I still have a job after the whole @home crap
and oy yea I live in Manitoba, (Canada)
Legacy Boy :confused:
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Originally posted here by VanEck
i am a 21 year old associate information management specialist for the air force reserve base in pittsburgh, pa. i am responsible for a little bit of everything i suppose. mostly user level support and networking. of course security is a major issue here. i hold a secret clearance already and would like to earn top secret at some point. pretty much all my knowledge is self taught from experience. security and networking are my favorite areas of IT and would like to get into consulting on the side for both.
It sounds like your living the life i would like to be living in the next few years. How did you get this job for the airforce.
But anyway, Whats up everyone the names Mark or some people call me Berky. I just turned 18, goin to highschool for half a day then i take a bus over to the good old Morris County Vocational School where i take ccna classes mid 3rd semester right now with a 95 averge. Not only am i move at doulbe the pase of the class (they jsut started 2nd) i got the highest grades.(yeah i'm braggin, and yeha i sound like a loser nerd,) but yeah so i'm goin to new jeresey VICA in a few weeks, competion for tech students specifically cisco for me. As far as jobs i worked at compusa for a year and a half up till this past sepember when i quit. now i'm doin preety mcuh nothing, just set up a small network in my fathers bussiness. And i'm just kickin back with my friends.
Now i'm lookin for a nice network/ tech job.
i'm wondering if any one is from around my town, Parsippany its a preety big town, lucent and pny are located in it. you may hav heard of those companys.(be nice to get a job for them)
Only problem i got is i leave for college this august, i'm goin to Pennslyvania COllege of TEchnolgy in WIlliams port.
Well if anyone has any suggestions of how i can get my name out there for a job i'd like to here them. I like the idea of working with preety mcuh everything that plugs into the network like a couple people said. Its been nice telling u bout myself, catch ya later
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Invictus: I would have to agree with you. . .I have a passion for networking which I've just recently discovered, but I can see a path to get there through electrical engineering. Additionally, I have also had a passion for computer HARDWARE rather than software. . .so it seems logical for myself.
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Originally posted here by dammitberky
It sounds like your living the life i would like to be living in the next few years. How did you get this job for the airforce.
i was actually very lucky. i am not an official gov employee, but a government contractor. a good friend and fellow techie i knew has been working here for quite some time. when the position opened up, he recommended me and gave them my resume. it took almost a year to actually get hired. a lot of phone interviews and such went on and then finally, after new years, they decided to hire me based on my reviews from former employers that i have been doing on call contracting work for during the last couple of years. trust me, it was not an easy position to get! especially here in pittsburgh. it is very hard to find a nice paying techie job here that is not temp or contract work if you are under the age of 35 it seems. no matter how much experience or pieces of paper you have behind you. if you do get a job near the city, you will usually be very underpaid. unless you are very luky. networking with other people in the field is very important.
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Hey, all. Thought I'd add my $.02
I'm 29. My current job is a Central Office Technician for a telecom company, work mostly on a Nortel DMS100 switch. Networking and computer security is just my hobby, although I'm thinking of transitioning into the IT field...just need to get some additional training for resume purposes. I've spent pretty much my whole adult life doing telecom, and it's pretty interesting MOST of the time...
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We have some pretty interesting people in here. Variety is the spice of life!
As for me...
I'm 27 - while in nursing school discovered a love for computers and switched gears. Been programming for three years and love it. I'm brain dead at the end of the day but hey - it's all part of the game I suppose.
:D
Always love to see the 'finished product.' But don't we all, I suppose!
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Originally posted here by {P²P}Apocalypse
They know how to screw an SQL Server database up good....LOL
:D
You can say that again. I have been here for about 3 months already and still don't understand everything they have done..
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an dsp engineer recycled in networking / security engineer (not really related i know ...)
but got to make a living. and if you got ethics most dsp work wil take it appart ....
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i am a lifeguard
it has absolutely nothing to do with computers
i am just getting into security and i am trying to pass my c++ classes
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Humm.. general newbie here, I have a talent with computers, been using them since a junior in highschool..lol. Won't say how long ago that was, but find the internet, computer software, etc.. absolutely intriguing. If you let me play with it, or set me in front of it, I can learn it. I want to learn Html, Java, Flash, etc.
I do everything in R/L from Business Development, Sales, Marketing - graphics, etc.
Currently working on a General Product Brochure for a manufactuering company. I want to learn about security and go to work for a high tech company in Florida around the Tampa area when I move later this year.. (I have the old school, basic/cobol/pascal/jcl and a zillion other software applications). I would LOVE to have a job like Cat on TechTv or one wehre I get paid to test the security of websites,etc. That jsut seems the ultimate high. Either that, or rofl, just learn the in's and out's of security, etc.. just for the pure joy of the knowledge. *smile*
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im 16 and have no life i play video games and write stupid c++ programs and then i got a trojan and got pissed and got in to security.
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I am 21 years old. I am a Computer Technician for the Odessa, Texas school district. (ECISD) I have been here for about 2 years now. I do everything from setup new comps to figure out why they can not logon. I sometimes install software. I somtimes install hardware. There will be times I show them how to use email. I may even have to show them how to turn on a comp! I do anything and everything. :)
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Well I'm 21 have an associates degree and work for Security Associates International. I have been workin with comps since ms-dos 3.0 was the sh!t. I currently am trying to break into the admin/security world. I have lots of knowledge but no certs to proove it. I am currently getting my computer engineering degree. I'm currently an operator for a new GPS tracking emergency phone. Its actually pretty cool. I can track the phone anywhere in the us and provide any emergency services. Its a good job for a student and I can't really complain.
Laters.. :)
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ok..
24 years old....cardiology tech. student....used to be a surgical tech. student....changed my major. I hope to go on to get my pre-med out of the way...then go from there. Iknow it will take many years...but what the hell.
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I'm 16 years old and I work at Kennywood amusement park. The park is currently closed right now so I have to wait to work again. It's an okay job I make over minimum wage which is pretty good. I really want to do something with networking someday. I still have two years of highschool so I have a while to decide. I love computers that's where I want to go.
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Webdev, Netadmin, Sysadmin, Front and Backoffice for a small ISP with cybercafe . .
And Customer Care Agent for a Dutch power company.
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Hi Sgt_B, pretty much like you, i figured my career was goin to be on networking and systems and network security in particular... I work as a network design consultant at the moment.
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hmm did i mention i worked in a flower shop recently for 2 months?
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Sounds pretty cool cybercop! Good luck in the future man!
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I'm 20 years old. I have been employed full time as a web designer / developer for a little over 3 years. HTML, ASP, PHP, SQL Server, and currently learning XML. I got my Master CIW Site Designer certification last year (www.ciwcertified.com). A few of my friends and I are working on starting our own web development company. Things are picking up slowly. For our company I handle all the networking (windows 2k), and the database work for the client sites.
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Programmer/Trainer specializing in anything that is neat and Microsoft. Neat *or* Microsoft perhaps. I dunno.
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I'm a student taking a Information tech and systems management course at my local collage. I am currently going the Cisco route they seem to have some good certs.
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I'm a 15yrs old kid that currently has a temp. job with an OPSEC alliance development team and I don't make much,
I'm pretty experienced with most OPSEC related stuff, and most <if not all> major FWs, IDS <both NIDS and HIDS, heurystic and rulebased>, Forensic analysis, Auth, VPN..
ie. most used stuff :)
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Weeelllll, I am a 28 year old going back to school type...lol. I actually spent about the last five years working at a small credit union as their loan officer/computer fixer(when we called our tech guys, it ended with me on the floor crawling around while they said umm, try this, no, try that!) So, because I knew so much about computers, I decided to go to school....HAHA! Can I just say now, that I knew exactly Jacksh!t, as it turns out. But I am still enjoying going to school, and I am about halfway through my MCSE courses, I will be done June 30.
I would really like to be like TechieChick, I also live in a very small town with slim to no options for their computer and networking needs. I am really interested in networking, but have figured out unless your network is secure....it doesn't matter how good it is, it won't last. My biggest problem is that when I read something in the book and then try it on my computer, I usually break my computer....but on the bright side, I seem to learn more fixing it after it's broke than I did reading it....lol!
Well that's me....not to exciting, but what I get up for every morning....
Oh, yeah, I wound up here because ALL of the instructors I had said it was a really good security site, and seems maybe they were right!! :cool:
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<Waiter...age 17 #tsl on dalnet is my home
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I work as a storgage engineer for a large storage manufacturer.
Involves SAN design and troubleshooting.
I work with most flavours of Unix as well as NT/W2K
Just moved down here from Canada.
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Lemme see here.. From south sweden, Lund. (Uni. town)
Attended another Uni with the intention of becoming a networkadmin. Their intention was to educate consultants and I dropped out. After that I looked after a handicaped guy, took care of the computers in a research department and a couple of others.
Now I´m back in school again.
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Hi im 21 working at park lane college doing a mixture of everything
1. teaching basic it (from turning the monitor on to access, excel, word )
2. Hardware and software support (not supposed to but tech staff are crap here)
3. Netwrok problems try and solve them tell techies what i think it is 9/10 times im right
4. Database design and support
5. Flirt
On an evening 2nights a week) i go to college to study a HND in computing (cheeper then uni) am looking to get certified Win,Linux, novell, cisco sometime but 1step at a time.
Spend my nights partying like a madman and weekends pratting around with machines.
Yes im a nerd
Love too you all Damien The Omen
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im 19,
im a Software Engineer, and the Server Administrator for Digital Acumen, Inc
www.digitalacumen.com
www.TNKase.com <---i made that (yeah i know its cheesy)
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Ok. Let's see.. I ain't giving my age. Ya'll make me feel ancient! Anyways, I am a professor at a local college and usually I teach security, tcp/ip and hardware (gah! I've become a hardware monkey!). While I'm mostly on the networking side I am trying to use my spare time to learn some programming mostly in the assembly and C areas.
I suppose with my little robot project I will be brushing up on BASIC again. I never dies! I swear.
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Great Thread Sgt_b,
I'm a backup firewall admin, an Network admin and responsible for security access on about everything else a healthcare provider might have, software anyway. I was a tech for 9 years and am finding myself a little over my head in this security position, thought I was going to get the money, the girls and leave at 1 for lunch and never come back. YA right.
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Im 17 and i am a student intrested in pc's.
