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<blockquote data-quote="Zombie_Babies" data-source="post: 6238320" data-attributes="member: 6750039"><p>I'm a network analyst in a retail corporation's network engineering department. I sort of fell into the role because my mother told me to stop working in the factory I was in so I didn't die. I got a job at a major telco doing work in the e911 department (entry level) ... and two years later a 21 year old kid died on the shop floor of the factory I used to work in. Anyhoo, I moved over to another department at the telco and did some minor switch programming, moved again to a dept within that dept and did a li'l more. The job moved out of state and they offered me a whopping 5% to leave my family, gf and home to live in a city with less than 3k people and to do a job I hated. I said no. Took a job where I'm at now as a temporary thing ($2/hr less but I needed money and have no papers) that morphed into a career. I started on the telco side in an entry position, was moved up into an analyst role, took on infrastructure stuff from the engineering side and moved over once a position opened up. Somehow I make double what I did when I started.</p><p></p><p>I'm happy with what I do - to me it's a career and not just a job. I'm still learning my new role and that's cool. I typically get bored after about 5 years if my responsibilities don't change and if I don't see any new sort of work come through. I was almost burnt out at my last position here and was TOTALLY burnt out in the entry level role I had. This position will offer a whole lot of stuff in the 'new' category for me and will continue for a long, long time. There's so much to learn and so much to do and I'm not limited by anything more than myself as far as picking any of it up goes. We have major projects underway and more on the horizon. It's a busy time to do what I do where I do it but that's also really interesting. Yeah, I like it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zombie_Babies, post: 6238320, member: 6750039"] I'm a network analyst in a retail corporation's network engineering department. I sort of fell into the role because my mother told me to stop working in the factory I was in so I didn't die. I got a job at a major telco doing work in the e911 department (entry level) ... and two years later a 21 year old kid died on the shop floor of the factory I used to work in. Anyhoo, I moved over to another department at the telco and did some minor switch programming, moved again to a dept within that dept and did a li'l more. The job moved out of state and they offered me a whopping 5% to leave my family, gf and home to live in a city with less than 3k people and to do a job I hated. I said no. Took a job where I'm at now as a temporary thing ($2/hr less but I needed money and have no papers) that morphed into a career. I started on the telco side in an entry position, was moved up into an analyst role, took on infrastructure stuff from the engineering side and moved over once a position opened up. Somehow I make double what I did when I started. I'm happy with what I do - to me it's a career and not just a job. I'm still learning my new role and that's cool. I typically get bored after about 5 years if my responsibilities don't change and if I don't see any new sort of work come through. I was almost burnt out at my last position here and was TOTALLY burnt out in the entry level role I had. This position will offer a whole lot of stuff in the 'new' category for me and will continue for a long, long time. There's so much to learn and so much to do and I'm not limited by anything more than myself as far as picking any of it up goes. We have major projects underway and more on the horizon. It's a busy time to do what I do where I do it but that's also really interesting. Yeah, I like it. [/QUOTE]
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