What do you do?

Audio engineer/music producer and currently getting my A+ cert to start working in IT cause I'm a fucking nerrrrrddd

Couldn't give a shit to be honest, I'm getting into the field for a host of reasons and none of them are because I want to have fun deploying new systems to use in-house

I wouldn't take any added responsibilities unless it will benefit you. It has nothing to do with being friendly or a team player or anything. Your work is asking you so they can save money, not because they think you're a bro.

Lol

Roxby said:

Big W, I had the exact same problem last TWO employers I've been with. Promoted me really fast, and never paid me anymore. I'd find a new job, then before putting in my two weeks notice ask for a big raise. If they say no, slap down the notice.
Now with EMC I have a similar problem , I'll be hired on for a basic migration or support of a specific system then get asked to do the job of a million dollar professional services engagement. Sales always gives in since its money in their pockets.

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Yeah, the thing that keeps me kinda holding on (other than a severe apathy for interviews) is the fact that its company policy that pay increases/etc. have to happen at the end of the year...And my boss keeps making assertions that he is pushing for the title bump and a significant pay increase (25+%) at that point. He however always says he can't promise anything, like he is expecting it not to happen.

Its like, do I hold on? Do I find new shit now? I know for a fact that if I push for it now, they deny and I am forced to walk, or become the bitch who didnt follow through and am forever poor..

I mean, I love the work. The work is fucking great. Get to do a mixture of support, and get to travel, do physical installs, learn SQL..Basically, its huge resume padding, but fuck, making right at 40k when I've been working IT since 2008 is bullshit...and I guess it wouldn't be bad if I could just, ride out a cush job, but I'm doing major fucking stressful ass work for it.

Get some certs, use the job to become a DBA, leave the company a year later for MAD SKRILLA. A DBA could drink Vinen's milkshake depending on who is hiring and how badass they are.

btw, offers are starting to roll in for me, BAH gave me one today but it was 20k too low and it was one of those bs "i build teams, I don't hire for positions" things where he wouldn't even tell me what I would be working on. Sounded kind of cool, but meh. Then there are two more teams that I should get offers from tomorrow, and got an offer to start up at Commerce basically doing exactly what I want, exactly the title I would want, exactly the high end of the pay band I asked for. So good news so far. Only offer I have accepted is the company taking over my current contract, which I fully intend to rescind here shortly. Not sure exactly when I should do it, i'm in a weird situation.

Mist said:

I'd rather be bored than work in a call-center sweatshop (that fixes the servers that run other call-center sweatshops) for 12+ hour shifts with no meal or rest breaks.

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Ask if your new job perks include a nutrition tube, stoma and a urinary catheter. You could promise them you'd pay off the surgery from your next 10 years worth of raises. Win-win-win for mistery.

a_skeleton_06 said:

If you have any ambition at all, be careful what you wish for. I swapped an interesting, though not particularly lucrative job for one that paid more but did less and I want to shoot myself in the face. It's cool for a month or two while you unwind and then next thing you know, you're reading Trex posts 7 hours a day.

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Was saying the job im at would be cool to pay me shit if i didnt bust my ass constantly


So. Opinions. Do i ride this bitch out til the end of the year or start looking?

Big_w_powah said:

Won't the fact that I'm looking after 6 months be a negative to me?

Also, I drove by the Dallas Raytheon building today cause I screwed up my route to work. ..God that place looks like a DoD contractor building from the outside

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To who? Your current boss? Obviously. To the folks you are applying to? Fuck no, they don't care about you as a person, they just want someone who fills their list of checkmark boxes the best.

Mist said:

Everything about IT sucks right now. 90% of IT jobs involve micromanaging other companies' infrastructure for them, to their specifications. IT was fun when it was all about deploying new systems to use in-house.

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For you. The thing about network systems now is there is one real GOOD way to "Design" anyway so its useless. Redundancy, Redundancy Redundancy. I Micromanage my designs, anywhere I go I would be micromanaging to my specs. Quit putting your fatalistic stink on the industry because you give your Mom all your money and are sad all the time.

IT is fucking awesome right now. You can just pick something you like and want to be a specialist in and then just go do that and get paid a ton for it. Other industries aren't like this, you can't just say "I want to do radiology" and be rocking and rolling within a month. But you can definitely do that in IT. It is what you make of it.

chaos said:

IT is fucking awesome right now. You can just pick something you like and want to be a specialist in and then just go do that and get paid a ton for it. Other industries aren't like this, you can't just say "I want to do radiology" and be rocking and rolling within a month. But you can definitely do that in IT. It is what you make of it.

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You can't do this in any real field.
Sorry you aren't configuring Enterprise Networks in a month.

Don't even get me started about people without a CS background who go to "coding camps."

Vinen said:

You can't do this in any real field.
Sorry you aren't configuring Enterprise Networks in a month.

Don't even get me started about people without a CS background who go to "coding camps."

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I don't think that was his intention, but you can get some certs. DO a few labs and get an entry level job doing what field you want pretty quickly..if you are willing to move.

Vinen said:

You can't do this in any real field.
Sorry you aren't configuring Enterprise Networks in a month.

Don't even get me started about people without a CS background who go to "coding camps."

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You won't be an expert in a month, sure, but you can be doing the work within a month easily. You can bang out certs quickly and leverage those to get hired. Coding might be different, idk, I have never worked in software development.

Mist said:

Maybe I'm just not autistic enough to want to do the exact same thing every single day for the rest of my life.

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Then don't. Quit crying and do something else. IT has a kajillion different specialties, you can often move between them without too much trouble. Or just continue the pity party.