I miserably tried to leave and go for.computer science. I tried to avoid IT as much as I could, but in the end it didn’t even matter.
MiRL
People don’t want help, they want you to fix it.
They’re then not grateful you fixed it, they’re annoyed with you because it broke in the first place.
It’s a great job 👍
Everything’s working. Why the hell are we paying for IT
This thing is broken. Why the hell are we paying for IT
The grass is always greener and all that. I spent the first 15 years of my adult life destroying my body in the trades. Sure the money was good, but the hours sucked and you’re still dealing with idiots all the time. Maybe Tracie in accounting doesn’t know to not click on every link she receives in her email, but at least she can write a coherent sentence and refrain from smoking crack in the porta-potties…
And don’t even get me started on service work. People who can’t use computers have nothing on people who can’t change a light bulb or plunge a toilet.
Studied computers since I was 11, worked IT for 6 months when I turned 19. Now I hate technology and do exclusively handtool woodwork now.
As a 20 year IT veteran, first help desk, then sysadmin and now R&D, I am jealous. By the end of this year my cost of living will decrease significantly and I’m contemplating taking the financial hit for a career change.
Ofc I can only go by this short description but I’d do it. In my former job I ended up with depression and it took me 1,5 years for recover. I didn’t want to do 1st / 2nd lvl support any more but found a place in another city that I liked and it had the opportunity to opt-out of the support work or keep it to a minimum, once you’re skilled enough to do other work.
Now work doesn’t get less but instead more, colleagues are - on a social level - find and I even made some friends, but they’re so hard to work with. I just came back from a week off because I was sick and after 10 minutes reading my emails and teams chat I’d rather turn the computer back off and go back to bed.
I don’t hat the tech. Hell, I even tinker with it in my free time, made the switch from windows to Linux even though I’m a gamer. I got pihole and home assistant running and I’m planning on a home server / NAS for Jellyfin and other stuff. I like this things… but people man… they drive me literally crazy.
But since I can’t do anything else and I need the money to pay rent and buy food I can’t just start another, badly payed, apprenticeship. I’m feeling stuck in a job that I despise because of the people in and around it. So if you have the change go get away from it and use the computer stuff as a nice hobby, do it.
a combination of high tech and low tech is the ideal IMO, like being a farmer who uses manual/animal-pulled machines made using modern design and tooling, and gps on their phone in the pocket to stay on course, with a USB fan attached to the underside of the hat
The blacksmiths who forged the blades I use had state of the art microscopes to analyze the steel structure of their blades. So my tools are high tech in a way.
https://www.japanstones.com/dgyu
Here is one of my favorite makers, Imoto Masao of the Dai-Dogyu brand.
