hey everyone i just wanted to say that I just spent a week in siemens network systems limited. i.e. playing around with £70K worth of equipment how fun. hehehe
thats cool. At my work ex place they did the same, they trust you with loadsa kit ie: £3000 a week rental 120gig Compaq tape drive and p3 700 laptops etc.
i got to pplay with 2 cisco C3600 series XL switches 1 ickle 1600 R router, 2 other huge routers tho i coudn't see the front. and a cisco catalyst 5000 with all the kit. psu's sups etc etc. If u know what any of that means hehehe. apparently it was worth £70k pretty cool hey
1st work experience i spent a day in an IT dept of a financial place 2nd work ex i spent 2 weeks at a news-agents
yeah it was wicked a week playing with all that equipment was wicked. Hopefully may be going back for some more in the summer. fingers crossed
Summer jobs are gooood - i spent a few weeks in an IT place, getting to play with loadza nice stuff - and i got paid - AND i got stuff @ discount price Wahayy
I wish I could apply for work experience... I want to be an oil boy for the miss world competition...
hehehe, absolutly no education in anything computer related... Yet I work as the one and only Computer Tech for a Corporation that has 78 Computers and 300 people, hrmmmmm:rofl: I have messed with everything I can think of.... and figured out all problems in some way....
Pah call that work experience I did air traffic control (and I'm not joking!) The year before i spent a day messing around in the avionics department at RAF Cosford, messing around with circuits and multimeters and leccy bits from jet fighters
ATC? What did you think of it? I am, on paper, an air traffic controller. Although I don't actually do any air traffic, at the moment I am IT. Cosford aint quite the major airfeild though, it's more of a glider site , I hope you did ATC somewhere else!!!
I did some very basic ATC in the control tower at Wolverhampton Business airport it was ok, though its a quiet field mind so not always that much going on. Also its a flight information service, so not true ATC like you'd get at a decent airfield. We did get a couple of Navy Lynxes come past low level, and we filed a complaint because they didnt notify us of their presence even though they were crossing the threshold of the active runway a mile out! We also had some Welsh dude flying the pattern the wrong way :rofl: so words were exchanged as soon as the guy landed. He got a left hand circuit and a right hand mixed up Also an RAF Chinook put down on the runway to take on 4 tonnes of fuel on its way to Hereford, and I was taken out to have a look at it inside and out which was pretty cool ATC, well it can be pretty stressful, and its boring when its quiet, but it was very interesting for the 2 weeks i was there!
it's not work experience exactly, but I've been to Telehouse Docklands a couple of times now, and what they've got in there puts EVERYTHING you're talking about to complete and utter shame. Everything in the UK goes through telehouse - it's THE capital of communications.
god u guys did cool work experience... i spent a week in an architect's office (dafting up drawings and sweet talking clients, and not understanding builders ) better than working at the local florists or whatever the other ppl did tho /me is jealous of phil ATC sounds well cool (well the work exp bay ) fly i hope you didn't want him landing planes at heathrow /me gotta find summer work or something to do IT work
