Finding a job

Here is sit pondering how it is an IT specialist with my years of experience has difficulty in finding work?

Granted that I have not sat for the Microsoft MSCE or A+ certification yet I have seen individuals (who have these pieces of paper) make some pretty big blunders. In the end it is individuals such as myself who have to correct them, and we have to calm the business owners down afterward!

This obviously leads into the other issues, where I feel that open-source alternatives would be better suited to the application. Such as the substitution of OpenOffice.org OpenOffice suite to replace Microsoft Office suite, primarily because the system load is much less per user than latter. Another plus is the fact it can open MS Word documents (as well as the newer docx formats), also that if you wish to export your newly created document to Adobe Acrobat PDF it can directly.

Not long after I had rebuilt my computer towards the end of last year I had joined a discussion within LinkedIn and discovered that this individual had been planning on replacing the main in-office system with Linux. After a number of phone calls and chats he had successfully had deployed a fully secured wireless network based around Linux systems and with little or no downtime. I applaud his tenacity! :)

Another point, in recent months an acquaintance from Australia had found one of my Facebook profiles and contacted me informing me that he was having major issues with his computer. Now I had not done any work on his system in well over a year and through the wonderful utility of Teamviewer which allows for a technician to remotely control a client computer bypassing firewalls currently in place via a secure proxy. It is true at times this can be rather slow due to connection speeds but it is possible. Whoever had done the partitioning on his system should have been shot! Granted a good rule of thumb is perhaps 2 to 4 partitions but around 10 is ridiculous! Now I did some work initially out of friendship but after 4 sessions averaging about 3 hours each I had no alternative but to invoice him for the work done.

I will continue this discussion in my next post.