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What the fuck is Admin Alive? |
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This Admin Alive page will be an updated channeling of real time events on what I am doing at work and all the why's and when's and what the fuck's in a Network Administrator's life. I still remember when I was talking to one of my buddies and they mentioned that maybe the IT field is not for them because he had heard that it was boring and there was nothing to do and it was nothing like a real job (whatever that means). Well "Admin Alive" will be exactly for those type of people and whoever else that might benefit from this. Shit, it might not even end up being a good idea but lets see how it works out. The reason I chose "Admin Alive" was because a fellow Instructor would always have me give small talks for his class. His class would ask me questions about the admin life and I would answer them with real life material, not no "Microsoft Press Bullshit." When I walked in his class he would introduce me and say, "There is a live breathing Network Administrator..." Pretty much this is a great way to describe a Network Administrator. Why? Well in my opinion, 99% users and Executives do not really realize this. "What the fuck you mean, it sounds like you are talking out your ass!" Well I mean, as a Network Administrator you are usually on the clock 24/7 and are expected to be ready for a 3am call or a 2 day straight workday. Most users don't know this and probably don't give a shit if you had a shitty day...shit, I don't care if THEY had a shitty day but as one that has to interact with them you must act like you care and be there when you are needed, or find another job. I hope this section will be useful for those Net-Admins to be.
~Prologue~
They all have a picture of your job being something like this: ~Working in an office that is always air conditioned, sitting on your ass all day not breaking a sweat, playing with computers and magically fixing them in minutes, ooh that must mean it is not a hard job. And what the fuck is this that they can work 8+ straight hours JUST working on computers, they must be milking it, what a slack job. They also are cheating the company out of money, they should be happy that they are getting paid what they are getting paid for sitting in front of a T.V. screen all day....ooh "Computer Guy" can you get my data back I worked on a file for an hour and I did not save." "Oh and can you hurry, I got a meeting and I need that paper!"~ Well us Network Administrators and Network Engineers have another thing coming to you. Here is a simple run down on what YOU have wrong: Usually 9+ hours of work a day not 8 you dick. Half the time we have to wait until you get your sorry ass out the building to do what we could have done in a few minutes. This does not include the countless times that we show up at night, weekends, holidays and other great occasions! Sure some of us are stuffed in a cold ass room, well those are for your slaving servers that you use to carry out your slap happy tasks, plus, we think it is fucking cold in there, nothing to be happy about. Not breaking a sweat? Shit just sitting down trying to recover Active Directory has already made my left nutt stick to the side of my leg! Lets not forget the stress that builds up from the pressure happily provided by the users, executives and all the EI-EI-Os. Yes, you start to feel that heaviness on your neck that starts weighing you down and makes you look like a hunched monkey over a keyboard. Cheating the company out of money? Shit, most companies only want to pay IT Salary why? Not because everyone is on salary but because they know you will be pulling these long hours, that you will be cheaper if they set you on a salary paycheck instead of hourly. If we are charging too much then a local trailer park should start breeding Network Administrators of their own and do the work for 50% less and then we could hear you complain on how THEY get overpaid. Sitting in front of the monitor you mean? Let me take your telemarketing ass away from a phone and see how well you do, how the fuck else do you want me to do my job, by putting a flash light up your ass and checking if your Back Orifice needs a Last Known Good? Another but not last, most of us miss our lunch break or any break for that matter while we have to hear you complain about how your lunch hour is so short, so two words, shut up. Finally, we really resent the nick name you so gracefully gave any person working in the IT field "Computer Guy." What the fuck, it is like categorizing us in the idiot category. Remember Bubble boy? Dough Boy and the rest of the poor souls that were called idiot names? Well Computer Guy sounds like one of them, shit I am not made of a fucking motherboard and an Intel Chipset, even though most of us actually have dreams in our sleep of running a Quad XEON Processor motherboard with 5TBs of Rambus Memory and an Infinite space SCSI hard drive! <takes breath> So for your sake and to just plain oh sound a bit more sophisticated, at least call us what we are titled, "The Network Administrator," and we will call you what you are, a "User." ================= I hope this shined some light on what users and others were cloudy on. I enjoy my job very much and I would not trade it for some two-bit job that would not allow me to use my brains the way I do. So what you read was not complaining about anything at work, simply just shining light on what others do not see. I do not state strong opinions on other's jobs and other's professions because I probably do not know as much as they do in the particular field. I do not think that it is any easier than my job but why can't you see the same for a Network Administrator's position? 4-8-03 |