| Re: Get to know: The Techie Talk folks
At age of 14 I worked in a mainframe computer environment just as a summer job, then the corporation that I worked for called me a few months later and asked if I would like to work for them when I left school at 16.
They made sure I worked in the computer centre and made me go to college to get qualifications. I started out as an operator on IBM 370/158's and 159's did that for 5 years and made friends with a few programmers and started learning COBOL and Pascal. I preferred knowing about the hardware side of things though. Eventually I found I had to get to grips with Client/Server networking and went to a company that installed networks for medium and large enterprises spent a few years learning the ropes. Then went to a smaller company as I had really got fed up with the whole office politics thing you can get bogged down with at bigger companies.
Afeter that, however I had saved some money and went off for a couple of years - first touring Europe then living on sth coast of Britain
Moved to London and started up a business with a couple of other people providing networks and support for small to medium businesses and then after a couple of years we sorta went our separate ways as they felt web design was where they wanted to be and I wanted to stay on the network side of it, so here I am running my own small company and doing OK nothing to complain about, building the business up and just ticking over nicely - I have been getting into Linux servers over the last couple of years but wouldnt consider myself a guru of Linux. I know my stuff tho but like everyone tho I am still learning. So I have a great deal of experience in all aspects of computing and am still doing the science !
Problem is I cant find any enthusiasm for programming or scripting anymore so I never really answer people on that score but I love setting up servers and getting things to run in a mean lean way I suppose I am a network techy - oh and modifying stuff - hardware and software hacks - firmware hacks all that sorta stuff
Last edited by crusher; 8th April 2008 at 5:32pm.
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