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Real_Account
04/10/17 6:34:35 PM
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I'm curious about those who work in IT, what's y'all typical work day like?
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Real_Account
04/11/17 12:52:42 PM
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MegaTech
04/11/17 12:53:32 PM
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Browsing CE/Reddit for 7 hours.

1 hour of work. Usually
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green butter
04/11/17 1:03:42 PM
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it's basically either "sit around and browse Reddit for 8 hours" or "run around like a maniac trying to frantically repair some catastrophic IT issue as the building burns to the ground". There isn't really much in-between
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organicbamf
04/11/17 1:05:56 PM
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when i worked IT in a university setting (~8 years ago), it was basically fuck around on reddit and/or Diablo II for most the morning, go to lunch with coworkers, come back and fuck around some more, and then look through the work order list for people i liked and go help them

if you're an asshole, expect to wait awhile. and yeah, our backlog wasn't that much. people who didn't bitch and moan about everything were good enough, but some of the people would also give us baked goods.

damn that was a good gig
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BreezyExcursion
04/11/17 1:25:48 PM
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im a some awful combination of a business analyst/project manager/system integrator at an investment bank

get into the office somewhere around 8:30-9 ny time

read 5 billion emails from people in london and asia

at this point someone in london has probably seen my skype status go green and i will get 50 calls about tests they want me to run

barely pay attention to a series of 3 unnecessarily long conference calls with the business, while simultaneously trying to run tests for london people who are breathing down my neck so they can go home

tests fail because i'm managing the project that all of the inexperienced and/or bad devs were assigned to

tell them what needs to be fixed

spend 2 hours writing a script that would take an actual coder (i'm a finance major) 12 minutes

its 4pm-5pm, london is gone. absolutely nothing to do. stare at screen and ponder what the point of living is.

post 5pm - gets busy again since tech ppl gotta make changes when the markets are closed.

normal day im out at 6:15, when im doing turnovers i've been stuck around until 9.
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