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Old 20th January 2010 | 11:31
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mad_jock
 
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Nope sorry mate I was one of those dodgy contractors that raped companys for silly money between 1998 and 2002. Although I did do MS servers my main hardware was cisco and unix, mainly Sun but I wasn't a guru, more of an admin who knew his limits. DHCP,sendmail,proxy and all that good stuff no probs but if it came down to setting up NIS+ or sama I left that to the sandled ones. The rollouts bulids were all microsoft deploying either SMS or Novell DNS.

I could admin printer q's and files on mainframes as well but avoided it if I could.

Now apart from the stuff I play with at home the nearest I come to IT is fixing the the office network and downloading and installing the gps updates.

It was a fun 4 years but even though I earn half what I did, I much prefer sitting with a cup of tea at 20 plus thousand feet flying an aircraft.

Miss the troubleshooting though on rollouts and new installations. The life as a contractor was good fun I don't know if I would have liked being a permy way to much politics.
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