Subj : Re: book: windows 7 networking ?
To : Jay Harris
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Nov 09 2020 06:40 pm
On 09 Nov 20 18:22:15, Jay Harris said the following to Nick Andre:
JH> Yup, some of the most frustrating and rewarding moments is when everything
JH> "should" work but doesn't & then you figure out why it didn't.
I was very, very lucky to work with what can only be described as
total assholes over the years. Not sure what it was about them but aside
from their personalities they were spot-on correct with troubleshooting 101.
Start simple and work up from there. And if you cannot fix it, you either
figure it out until its fixed, or you find someone else that can... there is
no such thing as a no-fix scenario.
Thats what they never really teach in tech classes as far as I can tell. They
teach all the theory and components and thats fine but they do not teach you
how to deal with being thrown into the lion's den. Stuff like inheriting a
total freaking mess from the previous IT manager or the foundations of a
network not designed correctly or all the software licensing poorly accounted
for... or my favourite, major investments in process-systems and equipment
obsolete with no software patches available and its not financially feasable
to rip everything out.
Now they also tend not to teach how to use those types of problems to your
advantage when it comes to HR or negotiating a raise or whatever to make
fixing things actually rewarding career-wise... taking negatives and making
them into positives in the end.
Nick
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