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I was in phone tech support for two years, once for sony computer and then for Adelphia cable Internet tech support, then I went to field support, doing contract jobs for two years, doing deployments, refreshes, installs, etc. then I though I had a gig with Dell through banctec doing home warranty work I lasted three months, they paid $25 a call (trip) they didn't pay for milage or cell phone usage (which I had to use to check in/out and to order new supplies if needed) sometimes I only got three calls but were all separated long distances, I was actually losing money, and hearing the customers (in person) complaining about the people in India when the call tech support. when I quit that, the contract jobs were rare, sometimes three month gaps. So I took a job with the TSA as a screener for something steady in a different state, at the sametime taking some tech classes at a online university keeping up my skills. Now I had my resume professionally done and ready to get back in the IT job search again. The key whatever you do, keep up on your skills.
Job update, since the last post, which has been awhile, I had a contract job with Banctec doing field support for Dell, home warrenty support, they only paid $25 a call and no milage or cell phone costs, I had to quite because I wasn't even breaking even. Then I had a contract job with unisys doing help desk support for NYC transit in farmington, NY. It was about a 2 1/2 hour commute and then sitting for 8 hours a day, my back injury couldn't handle it. So, now I move out to Las Vegas, NV to take a job with the US Gov't (TSA) were I have been for a year now. I'm still looking for an IT jobs but everyone say's I don't have enough experiance. I am continue to keep my skills up by taking classes online through Kaplan University. The last positions I've applied to were the FBI as an IT support person and Google as a IT field support tech. We'll see what happen's.
Well, lot's has happened, I've had a couple of One-day projects, one in the Town of Dariean installing a Dell PC and another in Amherst installing a memory module. Yesterday I had a project installing a few PC's for Kelly services in LeRoy, NY. I have a couple of projects on the table for the upcoming month, so we'll see what happens with those.
The six week project will be on hold as of this Friday, however I will get at least one week in. Yesterday was the first day and kind of ruff I was on site for 12 1/2 hours, today though went a lot better and not as long. :)
Well, today was a busy day for contract jobs, looks like things are picking up a little. I had three contract agency's call me, two asked if I was interested in a project they had, I said yes and they said they would get back to me, well I waited and nothing the other agency had a project and I again said I was interested and they got back to me, so basically first come first serve. It's a four to six week deployment all over Western New York (Buffalo & Rochester). So, I'll have some money coming in for awhile which I need because these bills are piling up.
Well, on the forth I had a contract job, an inventory project, in findley lake NY. for IBM at a Holiday Inn hotel, it was only a few hours but it was something. Now I'm just waiting for the next project. Very slow nowaday's here in NY state, kinda scary.
