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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.
It happens a lot, actually. They think they understand what the problem is, or what it's not, and so they make it their priority to get past all the insultingly simple steps as quickly as they can.
Or maybe it's even more pathological -- they feel like you're confronting them, and they don't want to get it wrong. Either way, these are the people who try to give the "right" answer so you'll escalate them.
I speak not from personal experience, but from having read these archives -- sad not only that so much stupidity exists in the world, but that these are the archives of one woman working tech support.
On the other hand, when I first got XP on this computer, I installed it in a VM to play with it. Later, I repartitioned to make some room, and installed it on the bare metal. It saw this as a different computer. I called Microsoft to activate, and got some poor woman in India. Spent a minute or two trying to explain what "virtualization" meant, and how it was the same computer, but also different, and I had killed the VM anyway.
I finally thought to myself "fuck it", and explained that it was the same computer, and got activated.
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
I loved tech support. People call in that actually need the skills I've spent my entire life acquiring. I fix those problems or direct them to where the solutions can be found. Once in a while you get a bad seed, but I would LOVE a L1 tech support job. Even at 10-15 an hour it would make me a ridiculously happy person these days. Using my skills, making people happy, fixing problems - I don't see why people hate it so much.