Money or Fun Job?
I have been really lucky in the past, I have never accepted a job because of money I have always taken the job that would give me the experience I wanted and (as far as I could tell) would be a good environment. My resume reads really good and I have only had one job interview that I have not received an offer from. I have done almost every aspect of IT work and have been a Master at none of them. I have climb into manholes to lay Fiber, I have answered phone calls on a help desk, I have automated pain in the ass tasks by creating a database with a bi-lingual front end, I have Lead a team of IT people to control all communications on a military installation from the Domain Controllers to the Land-Mobile Radio’s in Vehicles. The Job I had previously was the most exciting, mentally tasking, and rewarding position I have ever held. This position had me pretending I am an employee to see how secure the end users were in a department. This position had me write a Confiscated Data policy and handled a surprise data collection for fraud that was actually used in court. (My organization made the news on this one). I have only had one position where I didn’t receive a bonus or a promotion within six months. Shit in one position within a year the person that hired me was working for me. I have a big ego when it comes to my jobs, and rightfully so…
This current position is the first one that I took due to money. My previous position was a lot of fun and I would have done that for the rest of my life if it paid enough to put food on the table. But this position was SOLD to me and the money was a lot better. After 8 months at this position I am still in the situation that everyone knows more than I do, at least they think.
About two weeks ago I found a vulnerability on about 20% of the systems on this network. The System Administrator could not fix them so he called it a “False Positive.” Well I will admit that Eeye Retina is known for a lot of False Positives. I told him before I make a fool out of myself by calling the Tech Support I want to do a little troubleshooting. I came up with a little patch released by Microsoft that was suppose to fix the issue. His responce to me sending the link to him, “I am not going to fucking do it because Retina tells me it is vulnerable.” I went to my supervisor and explained the situation. My supervisor said, “Its a false Positive and it needs remedied at the Tech Support level.”
Of course my response was, “It is not a false positive and I don’t want to look like an idiot when I go to tech support.” but after threats I ended up sending this workorder to the companies tech support.
Here it is 2 weeks later, that is two weeks tech support for the company of the scanning software took on this issue. What is their fix for the issue???
You guessed it, the EXACT same link I sent out two weeks ago. Does it fix the problem???
YES IT DOES!!!
I should have decided on eating Ramen Noodles for the rest of my life…
