Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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 NOt usual day 2 day techy stuff?
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willay
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Last I heard Kindness is a unix man...
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AK
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all apps i use are unix or linux based...cept my mail/IE etc
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Robbo
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Quite specialised then? Was jus trying to fathom how an IT person is on £36k  Our European IT Manager is only on £45k
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willay
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I get quite a good mix actually.
most of it is network based, pretty much deal with cisco and nothing else. With servers its normally solaris (back office trading stuff), we do have a few desktop contracts but its all simple windows stuff.
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Quite specialised then? Was jus trying to fathom how an IT person is on £36k Our European IT Manager is only on £45k
Manager though, he could be a complete bullshit merchant
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AK
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i work outside the UK alot..... company charges about 650-700 a day for me.... i get about 120 bonus a day for this...
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Kindness
i work outside the UK alot..... company charges about 650-700 a day for me.... i get about 120 bonus a day for this...
now thats delicous 
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Quite specialised then? Was jus trying to fathom how an IT person is on £36k Our European IT Manager is only on £45k
Manager though, he could be a complete bullshit merchant
No no Hes very clever Only late 30's as well
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AK
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im just mid 20's 
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Robbo
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam Kindness
im just mid 20's
Is that 36k like ur basic or does that include ur bonuses? Coz thats very very iompressive for 25
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3CorsaMeal
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hopefully i'm moving onto 30k in the new year
fingers crossed tho
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Dave1682
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I finished uni this year, got a 2:1 from a Bsc Business Computing degree. On my year out, I worked for BT Broadband as a test engineer. With my degree and a good years experience under my belt, getting a job wouldn't be too difficult???
I still haven't managed to get a job in this industry! Poor me. 
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Je11ybubb1es
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Quite specialised then? Was jus trying to fathom how an IT person is on £36k Our European IT Manager is only on £45k
My other half left college with a BTEC in Computer studies at 18, is now 24 on £30k with 6k MCSE training pa, so technically on £36k
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Dean_H
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When i finnished my A-Levels with a...
B - IT
B - Electronics
I had a couple of choices open to me....
Do i goto uni or do i do a modern apprenticeship.
I was sick and tired of theory based all the time, i knew uni would be a laugh but i decided in the end i wanted to get out in the real world earn a wage and get more qualifications at the same time so thats why i decided to to a modern apprenticeship.
Then to decide what job i wanted to do with the rest of my life.....
IT - I enjoy it, i find fixing pc's, troubleshooting on pc's, setting up databases, spreadsheets, networking .... fun and not that challenging somthing that I DID NOT ENJOY at all was the programming side (which i was lead to belive that most IT jobs involved was programming)
so i knocked that idea on the head.
Electronics - i enjoyed electronics, was quite good and fault finding etc and enjoyed it.... but again wasnt that fussed about design etc which is where the money is etc etc so i knocked that idea on the head..
Anyway i knew i wanted to do somthing with electrical/electronic trade.....
With the limited knowlage i had from careers teachers (they were fucking useless) I decided to apply for electrial electronic apprenticeships....
Got a job with Bosch as an Electrical Electronic apprentice at 17, nearly 18.
Started my appreniceship just after i turned 18 and spent a year in college full time on £8000 p.a
Now im into my 2nd year and im on £12.8k and im with 2 maintenence electrical techs and they are teaching me shitloads...
my sallary will rise to roughly £22k in the 4th year and with a bit of luck i can get a £32k a year tech's job when i finnish my apprenticeship and maybe progress onto engineers jobs where most of them are on £45k-65k BASIC.
Dont know if i have done the best decision, only time will tell....
But all of my mates that went to uni last year fked up big style, 2 failed, 1 dropped out, 2 scrapped passes, when they come out of their uni courses they will be oweing £15-20k? on student loads, compared to me i will have a £50-90k house being paid for and getting on the property ladder at 21ish and hopefully earning a decent wage and i will have the ability to do electrical hobbles on the side... £100 to fit and wire up a shower, do that in 3-4 hours....
Time will tell lets repost back in here in 10years time and see where we all are GOODLUCK WE ALL NEED IT
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