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Offline TrashMan

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Just started working and decided to make a log of my time (since I got nothing better to do ATM anyway).

Now, after a year on the market and several promissed jobs going down the drain, I finally landed a nice job. A good fimr called ENEL. Now, what would my job in it be? I don't think there's a single word describing it.
The situation is as follows:
There is this one guy that works for them (he finished architecture no less) who does a whole lot of things. When someone didn't know how to do something or didn't have time they asked him. And little by little he became a expert in this area.
Database mantainance, networks, making sure everything works (in the implementation.. the firm has got a 99% implementaion sucess thanks to him), operating systems, even some programming. But he's a bit spacy. Doesn't document anything he does...and he ain't the youngest.
So they need someone to learn from him, take som workload off of him and document his knowledge. That would be me. Oh boy, a big task for little ol me. Methinks I'm gonna need a lot of help (probably visting specialist internet sites for advice)

So without further ado:
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DAY #1

- nothing. Getting to know the 40 people working here. My office PC isn't ready yet so I basicly connected with my laptop to the office LAN and am typing this now. I'm also playing games and staring out of the window. Slow day, but tomorrow should be more interesting...
« Last Edit: October 02, 2009, 05:51:59 am by TrashMan »
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Offline General Battuta

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Sounds like a great job. Good luck!

 

Offline TrashMan

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Thank you. I'm gonna need it. Out of college for almost a year and a half. A LOT of knowledge vented out or atrophied during that time.
Just got to work. PC is still not there. Hopefully it should be here in an hour or two.
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Offline TrashMan

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It arrived. And my mouse just died. After a hour of windows updates it's finally ready for work. I was given a huge stack of books on SQL sever - programming and administrating.
With 3 hoursof work left. Time to get crackin!
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Offline S-99

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You have fun documenting existing systems now. I hate documenting existing systems of anything. Reminds me of when i had to map out the local library network for documentation years later after my older brother had put it in without a network map. Had he done that, that would be two days of my life back.

Then again for all i know you'll just be doing documentation on printers and computers for a long time on paper and digital inventory.

Some recommendations: If you keep a blog detailing your work day, hide it on the internet. This happened to me once on my last job. I had to keep a blog detailing my work days for every week since it was an internship for a class of mine. Apparently, i still spoke with enough detail for my boss to google random stuff about the job location and found my blog. Low blow for me more than my old bosses could ever imagine for them to be reading the rough details of my ocassional bad days at work.

Got myspace, facebook, twitter, or something similar. Set your profile to private, only your friends in your friends list should be able to see your profile, photos, videos, blogging feature, and comments board, consider setting your friends list to private as well. The next best thing you'll ever want is not only that anybody could be exploring your social networking profiles, but that your bosses can too. Set that **** to private, and then of course don't just go approving anybody to be a friend on your list.

Tips. I didn't really hide my blog a while ago, but my social networking profile is secure.
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Offline TrashMan

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Any of you working on database security? Cause it seems that I'll be working on that and backup/recovery

I'd welcome tips and links to good read on the subject.
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