[thelist] NTWRK ADMNSTRTN: [OT] a desperate plea to all you network administrators, i need your advice!

[Sean G.]

DK:  +1 (a lot)


PS. The position I took after leaving a crazy dot com where I was the 1-man
IT dept--that company went belly up and I was laid off 6 months into the
job.

That was right when all the telcos were sweating IT workers like Robin
Williams under a heat lamp.  (If you saw his recent HBO show, you'd know
that would be a lot of sweat.)  I was out of work for 13 months--long enough
to run through the unemployment checks, burn what little savings I had left,
then run through the unemployment extension the governor finally passed.
Luckily Sept 11 rolled around, and if I wasn't depressed enough, a couple
days of watching CNN made me want to slit my wrists.

While I did have a lot of second thoughts about taking the job that I got
laid off from, I never regretted leaving the crazy dot com.  Some jobs
really are worse than no job--sounds like you had one, Dave.  Hang in there.

I HIGHLY recommend "What color is your parachute"
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580083412/evoltorg>
By recommend I mean, if you can't afford to buy even a used copy, I will
send you mine.  In one of my more desperate moments, I paid a career
coach/placement service $3k.  Everything they told me was already in that
book.

I started a new job about 2.5 months ago, and call me crazy, I could
actually see myself working there until it's time to retire.  It's not
perfect, but I doing what I want to do, getting support from the people
around me, and recognition from the people above me.

HTH,

Sean G.
"I don't get it. Everyone loves rats but they don't want to drink the rats'
milk?"



> -----Original Message-----
> I was about to compose a reply to your original post offering some
> suggestions about time management, managing priorities and user
> requests, and so on, but then:
>
> Chris W. Parker <cparker at swatgear.com> wrote:
> > ... i did get a raise (about 2 months ago). but the
> > reason i'm writing this post is because (recently, like last week)
> > bossman has come to the near conclusion that i am possibly not "cost
> > effective". therefore my job is almost on the line. he doesn't want
> > to fire me because so he's given me the opportunity to try and
> > restructure my job position and maybe move into the marketing
> > department.
>