Working for a non-profit org, I feel very fortunate to just be employed in today's economy.
Many eons ago, I was working for Schwan's Sales, specifically Red Baron Pizza as a route salesman working 18 to 20 hours days, away from home 4 days out of the week driving 1500 to 1800 miles a week when I realized this old body wasn't going to hold up working like this so I purchased an NRI McGraw Hill C+ Programming course that included a 286 PC with two floppy drives in it, no hard drive and a cheap monochrome monitor; I was in heaven. Got A+, Network+ and Server + soon after that. Started my own business in 1986, worked that while still working as a route salesman at Cheerwine Bottling. Operated the local BBS, Bill's Graphics BBS for a while. After that I obtained MCP for NT, then MCSE. Made the full-time plunge into the IT field as a configuration technician for then Duke Power (Duke Energy now), from there to an Assistant System Administrator position for Lockheed-Martin at the Fieldcrest Canon Mills plant PC conversion. Went from there to a Systems Admin position in Charlotte, NC; then to IBM Global services as a Server Systems Engineer at Belk Store Services. Ended up here at the PAC and have been here for the last few years. I'm on salary, above 50 for sure but definitely not at Don Ely's level. UDAMAN Don!! ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 10:56 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IT Salary Survey Going more South is even worse. 50k is an excellent salary in Tampa right now. I am paying most of my techs based on experience and certifications(that they actually use) between 35k and 55k + bonuses based on performance scorecard. Greg From: John Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: IT Salary Survey 50K isn't bad unless you consider my $7000 worth of property taxes I have! What department did you work for? John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ From: Za Vue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 5:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IT Salary Survey Anyone making over $50K in Gainesville is doing okay John. That city is so dead. I used to work for UF as a senior IT admin(40 servers, 1000+ users), and I am ashame to even mention that salary. :-) (There were two live gators in the pool the week I moved down to UF to work. They finally fenced the pool. Gators are more protected then humans.) -Z.V. John Cook wrote: Graduate of the School of hard knocks, Certified Working Chef, 8 yrs in IT, see sig for certs , 250 users, 20 servers, I make a little over 50K but I do run the IT department even if my boss doesn't realize it! John W. Cook System Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I,CompTIA A+, N+ From: Jonathan Link [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 4:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: IT Salary Survey ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
