And the days pass, like dominos.
Mutant, hulking dominos. With teeth.
Okay. That just makes me visualize Domo-kun for some reason.
The past couple of days have been uneventful, however. Work at school is hectic at times… but usually, it’s just a lot of fixing small problems and generally trying to make people happy. Today I had a teacher that was actually afraid of his computer. While trying to get him to explain what was happening, the response I received was that it sounded like “razor blades were flying around” inside of the case.
It was his CPU fan of course.
But the visual of razorblades actually flying around made me chuckle.
Most days that’s what I do. It’s a lot of workstation maintenance and user support. It’s not bad, though. Most of the staff at least know how to turn their computers on, which can’t be said of the people I used to support while doing Internet help desk work.
Whatever you’ve heard about doing Internet help desk work, the stories are true.
Hell, they may even be toned down. Yes, there really are people that stupid in the world.
I do get to have fun at work though. I’ve single handedly implemented a server backbone for about 600 computers. It’s not much, but it’s well organized, maintained, and it works. The network and server maintenance side of things is the stuff I actually, really enjoy. The workstation support keeps me on my toes, but the back-end maintenance is what makes me happy to go into work in the morning.
I’ve effectively become a jack of all trades.
The certification path I want to do will kind of pigeon hole me into Cisco equipment, but I don’t mind too much. Most of the world does run on Cisco equipment, after all. And those basic networking concepts and ideals can be applied pretty much anywhere.
This next payday I think I’ll be purchasing the next book for my certification. Expect to see it on the “Currently Reading” list when that happens.
And of course, other than work, I savor the moments I have to talk to those close to me.
I don’t have much in this world… a good job, and good friends…
But I still consider myself damn lucky.