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Tech's 10 Worst Entry-Level Jobs
Nicholas Carlson writes "These employers (Amazon, Google, Yahoo, etc), and the others hiring for tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs will look good on a resume someday, but for now the only good these jobs promise the world is the pleasant feeling you and I can share knowing we're not the ones stuck in them." The story is really obnoxiously laid out, requiring many many clicks to read very little actual content. Perhaps Valleywag could afford to hire another of tech's worst jobs: the web designer.
'Sysadmin work is the new "tech ghetto," we hear.'
That makes me hope that their admins go BOFH on them.
#11 on the worst job list: screening stories for Slashdot.
Have you read my blog lately?
Once my boss and I had to go see the doctors to get some questions answered. My boss had talked to one of the doctors on the phone beforehand and he was pretty irate. My boss said, in a thick chinese accent, in an elevator full of oncology patients "why he so pissed off? maybe all his patients die" i shit you not. I have never been so mortified in all my life. That was about 8 years ago and i still remember it like it was yesterday.
I came to the datacenter drunk with a fake ID, don't you want to be just like me?
Pfft, what a worthless list! It doesn't even have the two true worst IT jobs: Crack Whore Web Admin, and Assistant Crack Whore Web Admin.
The enemies of Democracy are
I got this paper cut once while playing frisbee in the park with my programming group, so I was sweating and it really stung bad. Of course, I couldn't let my coworkers down, so I kept playing and it just kept stinging. Not quite as bad as yours, but still, it was really bad.
So, now, were they networked or weren't they? Because a modem connection still is a network connection. A slow one, over POTS, but still a network connection.
It's really a shame there's no -1 Pedantic mod optionAssistant Crack Whore Web Admin
Hey! Leave my Mom out of this!
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
I gave myself permanent hearing damage cranking up my music loud enough that I could no longer hear the screaming and crying going on in the room behind me.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Ah, to have been so lucky, all the machines were ontop of the desks. Honestly though, at least once a month I had a knock on my office door (office..right..it was actually the server room) from a student who was either willing to exchange money or "favors" if I would change their grades. I never followed through, morals got the better of me (damn you morals!!)...besides...at that time the grades were still in paper "grade books". Of course I never told them that, or else I'd ruin ot for the next guy.
A real pedantic would have commented on the misuse of the term "baud".
That's because you really haven't called tech support.
You're really dead and in Hell.
"Now, sir, let's just check one more time, is the power switch on the back of the computer in the "ON" position?"
GOTO 10
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
A real pedant would take you to task on the use of "pedantic" as a noun.
You mean a real *pedant*.
You forgot: Is the power working in your city? In the building? In the room the computer is in.
I wish I was kidding when I say that I had calls about about computers not working at all and the fact that there was no power in the room, building, or city (had all three cases) apparently didn't cross their minds at all.
"Is the power light lit on the monitor?"
"No"
"Is the monitor's switch turned on?"
"Hold on, I'll have to get a flashlight, the power's out in the building."
*eye twitch*
The person who has to do user studies on a urinal-based video game.
I have to agree. I only skimmed the jobs, but none of them looked that bad...especially for a college grad coming out of school with no experience. I looked at 2 at random, and range was from $45K - $75K. That is fantastic....I know we have to take into account inflation, but, WOW....I started at about $20K or so....but, started quickly working my way up.
I was expecting to hear that complaints on these would be working 32/7 hours....with no AC, etc. The google dba one, the largest complaint I could see was....it was a bad cubeland...and he got mistakenly put in the wrong group....OMG!! That is a complaint on a first job for $75K/yr??
Geez, in my day, I had to wake up at 10 o'clock, half an hour before I went to bed, eat a lump of cold poison....go down the the mill and pay mill owner for permission to work...and well, you get the idea.
YOu try to tell that to the kids of today.....and they won't believe you..
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
insist that their diagnosis must be correct...
Don't waste my time with scripts boy!
I *know* the electrons have leaked out of my computer,
and if you would just send me a fresh jar I could refill it myself.
yeah, that uh, sounds terrible
I started my IT carrier setting jumpers on motherboards, in an un-air conditioned warehouse in New Orleans...in the summer. A laser printer would print an order, we would pull the board from stock, set the jumpers for clock and voltage, and pass it down. A chip puller would install ram and a cpu, and a tester would test post the board. Once you "advanced" from that area, you would work assembling the pc's with the now assembled board, then an "expediter" would dupe a windows 95 pre-install to the hard drive and finish the windows setup. Shipping would pack up the pc and load it into a big UPS trailer. I did that for 3 years, and at lunch would sit in my car and study for microsoft exams, because I knew I did not want to do that forever. I made it to inside repair (repairing what got mailed back to us). The company got bought out, I got laid off (newly married and a 6 month old child) because I made the most of all the techs ($10 an hour in 1999). Got on with a local break fix IT company and made it all the way to partner. Got my BS in CIS in 2005, and I am working on my MBA right now (at night) at a top 50 (for Business) University in New Orleans. It all worked out, but THAT was a bad IT job. A little foresight can turn a bad job into a stepping stone.
I think I would rather gouge my eyeballs out with a spoon and feed them to a pack of wild dogs rather than being a product support specialist for Windows Vista,...
Yeah, my life was so much easier once I made those scripts to change the printer paper, and answer calls. Now I am working on a script to read slashdot, and I can just stay at home.