Thread: What do you do for a living?

I do computer related stuff, consulting, installation, servers, networks, repair etc... I'm really nothing more than a field service technician, but my official job title is "Field Engineer". Hey, if trash men can call themselves sanitation engineers than it's fair game, lol. I wear many hats, I do IT consulting work with our customers, design and install their network infrastructure as well as setup their servers, PC's etc... which is all more on the "design" side. And of course the maintenance and break/fix troubleshooting for our contracts.

The other portion is that we also handle all of Dell's small to medium business work, where a random business contact's Dell, they sell them an Assessment, we are dispatched and we go on site for several hours consulting and basically write a complete proposal of what they want their network to be. Anything from a super small server for basic file sharing in a work group with 5 PC's and 2 shared printers, to something like 10 servers (terminal server, file servers, SAN's) across multiple locations.

The way we are set up we cover large areas, some territories have more than 1 guy, of course the regions next to me are like Cincinnati, OH, Louisville, KY, Toledo, OH etc...

I really enjoy it, it is my first "career" job, and this company generally as really long tenure, so I plan to be there for a long, long, long time. I enjoy what I do, I have a pretty regular work schedule most of the time but some pretty hefty overtime on occasion as well as being on call occasionally.