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You did that job for 13 years? Looking back, what would you have done different?
by spookthesunset 5y ago
You did that job for 13 years? Looking back, what would you have done different?
- BizarroLand 5y agoAnything that doesn't involve the red stapler guy is not enough
- dghughes 5y agoIn a way I did the job for 32 years but 13 of it with that company. I started out at age 14 fixing grey area poker machines, pinball, and arcade games. My first day I drove a manual transmission truck at age 14 to a bootlegger's to empty an illegal slot machine and I was handed a beer. I was self-taught in computers but mostly Windows and Linux but never took the leap in the mid 1990s in my 20s. It was a no-win situation if I refused to not do what was really not my job I'm sure they would have found a way to fire me. I was being paid an OK wage it was double minimum wage. I did enjoy the technical work I saw it as experience in IT not just playing with simulators, or reading books but actual running systems. It's hard to say what should have done differently but certainly I should have taken night classes or part time classes in IT. After being laid off I ended up doing that at a technical college which was only 500 yards away. I got $13K severance, and government paid for one year of my classes and unemployment. I pretty much had a two-year vacation to study computers. After I was gone I heard the place emptied of many long-term staff I'd like to think I was the spark that did that.