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First Net Admin Position
LockedI’ve just finished my 3rd week of my first Network Administration position. I was thrilled to get the job, largely for the experience that I stand to gain from it.
I’ve worked online managing support teams,for 10 years and worked my last year inschool supporting the Server/OS Instructional Lab (multi-quadruple boots), and while I recieved lots of cudos and well-done’s for the work I have done.. What is it about this first Net Admin position, that has made me feel at times, like I may have possibly forgotten just about everything I’ve learned till now. Well okay I am exaggerating *but*.. have most folks felt like this at one time or another with their first big job?
Of course I spose my whirlwind introduction to the several networks I’ll be supporting, plays a substantial intimidating factor. Actually I didn’t have 8 hours with the outgoing Admin. It was more like a 3-hour tour (can you hear the theme music? I do.).
In addition to the several stations, and servers in-house, I’ll also be providing consultant support for about 8 area businesses. So yes imagine that partial day of introduction to my new realm, spread amongst all these places. At the businesses I have no IP maps, and I have no idea if labeling on thedata jacks, Switch ports, Cables to the Switch ports is accurate.. or only known to the mind that set it all up.
So about feelings of forgetting all I’d learned.. there I was, this last week called out to trouble-shoot a new computer which had been installed the week prior to my coming on board, and according to the staff, had not been on the network since a day or two after it’s installation.
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