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I think my blogging will start to be a bit more frequent with my role I’m performing at work. It’s easy enough to do parts of my work with a little notepad open in the corner so I can type of the post and actually post it later.

Here’s my job description, for the benefit of people who don’t know or don’t understand what I do. *cough* Andy *cough*

Purpose of the Job
Supports telecommunications and data communications network to meet customer needs.
Evaluates, plans, recommends, implements and refines telecommunications and computer
communications networks and systems. Analyzes, monitor, tune, troubleshoot and
document network system capacity and performance to ensure stable network and
systems performance. Provides input to facilitate development of future local and wide-area
voice and data network strategies, philosophy, direction, planning, etc. Provides
technical guidance to other IT personnel.

What that means, practically, is that I work on Network related projects, solve network related problems and do network deployments.

In Andy-speak, I do things my boss tells me, I help out employees who can’t get to the intertron, I fix broken intertron pieces and I put new intertron pieces where they should go.

The majority of the work is reactive, rather than proactive so sometimes I find myself at my desk, monitoring the status of different network devices or working on trouble tickets or troubleshooting issues that people have. Other times, I’m in warehouses 50 miles from here fixing a stupid mainframe printer. It really depends. Sometimes it’s boring and there’s nothing to do. Sometimes there’s so much going on and so much to learn that I lose track of time. Mostly it’s just plain enjoyable.
I’m blessed with good co-workers who I enjoy working with. My direct supervisor is fairly lax when it comes to friendly chit-chat so I have a good degree of freedom there as long as work gets done.

As of last Monday I became a full salaried, non-intern employee. Which is good and bad. No overtime, but more flexibility in hours, etc. So I’m happy about that.