What is your profession ?

[Bumblebee]

I was going to work on a career as a bike mechanic once...a good friend of mine owns a motorcycle dealership and was originally a mechanic (and is a Suzuki nut himself).

He told me I like riding bikes too much to become a mechanic. I'd always want to be riding instead of working on bikes-he was/is correct.

I generally do my own wrenching when and where I can. When I run into an issue I am not comfortable fixing, it's good to know guys like Kiwi are around.

[RedBull]

My very first career as an adult ~ was in direct competition with FLEXSTEEL *

Sorry to say after leaving CalMark Industries ~ they closed the doors & could not compete *

[LycansGhost]

Did someone say Allison? Lol

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Love it.....to this day I could take that apart and tell you about every component. If i think real hard I can also tell you about the tolerances in each component down to the helixical gears, planetary gears, valve body etc lol..I don't however miss the world of working in tolerances of microns!

[LycansGhost]

That is literally like the age old scenario where you take over an older IT firms network and need server access and have to hound everyone and their mother for the passwords lol.

The public folders is almost always a permissions issue and when its a third party handling it I guess it could actually be more of a pain. Microsoft is the worst when it comes to support...They always have been that way.

Your right though uptime is def increased in the hybrid and hosted networks because of the multiple forms of redundancy. Its crazy to think that at one point "the cloud" didnt exist and all there was as you said were VPN's whether it be ipsec or SSL. If you had no internal network access, you had no shared files or folders.

I was using barracuda boxes for mail filtering back in the day and the rules for mail flow were so cryptic so I cant even imagine the file sharing. I guess it calls for patience more than anything.

Clearly you know your stuff and like what you do.

Amen...Micro is a PITA! Worst Ive seen is in DoD deployments. VDI cuts down a lot of this drama believe it or not. Way too much to get into but it does. Make sure to lok at the new tech out now like Rubrik, Pivot3, host of new architectures now that help a lot of these issues.

[LycansGhost]

Love I.T.!!!

SAN engineer
Server engineer
Vmware engineer

VP at this point so I get to manage 3 data centers and all the little pukes that go along with it.

Shade...if you want info on how to save money in thise DC's and make the work easier to manage etc let me know. Alot of cool product out now, from HCI to HPC and DR. Let me know if you want info

[08BusaKY]

73-77 painter, boiler operator (licensed), and building maintenance. 78-94 auto mechanic. 94-2018 IT Systems Engineer (CNE, MCSE, MCA, VCA). 2019 retired.

[Kiwi Rider]

Just to let you all know (again) . . . I'm a M/C tech!
Here's a bike I was working on yesterday.
When I say 'working on, I was servicing it, repairs on Hayabusas are extremely uncommon lol

[Kiwi Rider]

this is what I have to put up with every day i go to work lol !

[sixpack577]

this is what I have to put up with every day i go to work lol !

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That's a hard life right there.

[Bumblebee]

Today an old army buddy of mine brought me a new TV remote as he noticed the numbers are worn off the one I had.....now that's a hard life I have.

[1busa]

I’ve had a few jobs.....

Military
Construction
Barber
Personal Trainer (ISSA)

Now I work in a mill. Nothing glamorous but the pay, benefits, and health care are really good. Easy work but long hours. Not my dream job but can’t find anything remotely close to it financially for the area I’m in. I’ll keep punching the clock till something better comes along or I save enough to do something motorcycle or fitness related on my own

[shade]

Shade...if you want info on how to save money in thise DC's and make the work easier to manage etc let me know. Alot of cool product out now, from HCI to HPC and DR. Let me know if you want info

we have all the tools we need. these are multi multi million DC's

[Bailey9r]

My very first career as an adult ~ was in direct competition with FLEXSTEEL *

Sorry to say after leaving CalMark Industries ~ they closed the doors & could not compete *

Well I can tell you right now it was because your commercials didn't have HER in them!!

[RedBull]

Well I can tell you right now it
was because your commercials
did not have HER in them ! ! !

We thought about that too Bill ~ RV crash testing got expensive *

Once they passed a seat belt law ~ all furniture had to be tested out *

[Cantab]

Chemical Process Operator, make Formaldehyde Resin in resin reactors (pressure vessels with agitator, heating and cooling coils inside) We have 2 Formaldehyde plants running 24/7 and 3 reactors 1@5.5t 1 @7.5t and 14t capacities. Been there almost 20yrs() i have good super and health benefits and still have time 1/2 and double time ().
Used to be called ICI chemicals then Orica then Momentive , now Hexion and its US owned...

[fallenarch]

That's a hard life right there.

Like working in a cat-house!

[Dougyp333]

Like working in a cat-house!

Motorcycles don't have mood swings, just saying

[sixpack577]

Motorcycles don't have mood swings, just saying

I don't know about that, lol
Especially if you've ever ridden 2-strokes...they're All female

[Mr Brown]

Motorcycles don't have mood swings, just saying

I gotta disagree with you on that sir. They can be as fickle as any woman I've ever dealt with

[RedBull]

Like working in
a cat - house !