Currently, disabled, but I do paintings, drawings, etchings, etc., etc. for some spending money. I'm currently gearing up to start building custom trumpets (probably sell on Ebay) when my body cooperates. To all those in IT, I sympathize, I was there. I really hated a lot of the people that I ran across every day, and I truly got tired of people telling me to my face that they're going to do the same thing to it all over again and bring it back because they'd rather pay than change their habits. I think I'm just going to get some cards made up that simply have my name and "Master Craftsman." Fitting, considering how many years I have spent in metalwork, instrument repair, woodwork, and painting...
IT technician at a local High School only been there for 4 months after being 'Re deployed' from my job at a Middle School. Been a techie in schools for almost 4 years now, like the job, still got allot to learn. As in every job, some people are ******s and some awesome. Best bit about it is im term time only so i get 13 and a half weeks off a year : )
Have you work in IT other than in a school environment? How different was it? I applied for a network manager role in a high school last week, so am just wondering how different the work environment is.
Product/Industrial Designer, looking for work and hopefully two places are interested... Oh well at least in the mean time I have other things to do.
I have always worked in school environments, but I do know people who have done school and other things. The main difference is the management structure I suppose, in a school environment you are more likely to be managed by a member of the teaching staff to direct the direction of IT in the school. Which can be both good and bad depending on the person directing you I suppose. Technology in schools is still emerging at the moment and most schools have goals that have to meet as directed by the local authority, they are big on home learning or virtual learning remote access and paperless systems etc...
Sales assistant for Currys, it's not as bad as some of the pcworld haters would make out. And the people i work with are fun.
Politics. I did CS at Reading for a year but didn't get on with it. I've got a friend in his final year of CS at Surrey though, seems to have enjoyed it.
I had the most awesome day at my -still fairly new- job today (yesterday, I know it's 3AM). I was kitting board building kits (that's selecting the components required to build a board, counting out how many of them you need to do x boards, trimming th leads (throughhole) down for use in the solder bath then placing them in component bins with labels and silk guides for the builders) then picking and placing SMT components and soldering through-hole compinents. I spent most of the day with my face no more than 1.5' from a PCB. I can't tell you how much I love this new job It requires an extreme level of concentration though. I feel completely shattered tonight even though I've been sitting down all day at work. It drains you mentally. You get some 1x1mm components, count out 1000 of them (with ESD tweezers of course!) and see how much concentration it takes whilst kitting, I did that about 50 times today Then you have to place them on the board before they go through the oven
