Fingers Crossed

[trickykitty]

I had an interview today with a Dallas-based server farm. I have no proper training or experience working with servers. I watched my roommate play with the server we have here in the commune, but that's about the bulk of my experience. I went into the interview with them knowing full well that I have no experience. I was open and honest about what I do and do not know regarding computers and hardware. My entire hire-ability is based strictly on me being trainable and very very willing to learn. I should know by the end of the week if they are interested.

In the meantime, I'm still putting out resumes all over town for bookkeeping/assistant type jobs.

Comments

Good luck

[mr-rubix.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it would at least prove interesting work if you get the position.

[the-paco.livejournal.com]

What position in it anyway? Support? Software? Hardware? Whole shebang? I've always felt I could pick up and maintain a commercial-level server deployment from ticket to boot, but it would largely depend on the software, documentation, and initial training/support. I've seen professional co-location facilities that have very well laid out rack upon rack of high-dollar and well-maintained machines, but I've also seen cobbled-together nightmares of cable-tangled crap running on fry's-special power strips with no backup.

Whichever one, if you get it, you'll probably have a lot of fun. I've always wanted a professional excuse to get my hands on and play with some of the latest server-specific stuff. Multi gb ethernet, virtual server and resource management, cabling runs holding enough fiber that it's thicker than your thigh, the constant changes to keep up with technology and demand, racks and racks of drive arrays and backup media holding petabytes of data, and all of it under your purview. Of course, you probably won't see all that, I only saw it once in a company that developed backend banking software, but I loved it.

If you get the job, and your detail-oriented nature is put to use for it, you could go very far in that industry.

[jdack.livejournal.com]

A lot of what you need for that kind of gig, besides the fundamentals, ends up being stuff specific to the company that you can only learn there any way.

So there's hope.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

It would be support for the servers directly. Monitoring them and keeping outages from occurring.

Re: Good luck

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

...with tuition reimbursement.

Icing on the cake never hurt no one.

[trickykitty.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the encouragement. I'm a nervous wreck playing the waiting game.

[whisperer12.livejournal.com]

What's company name? If its Layered Technologies I can tell you all about it. I worked there for a while and still have friends there. Anyway, good luck!