Yes, as several of you have pointed out, I have yet to tell you about my new job. This is mostly due to the fact that I don't have as much free time available thanks to...that's right, the new job...
I've had this job for over 2 months now. It's for a small IT company, located in Central, Hong Kong. It's basically a project management position, with the work changing as new projects come up. For the first 6 weeks I was working out of the Hong Kong airport. Now I am gearing up ( i.e. doing lots of reading and research) for another project that should in gear by the time we get back from our vacation in Hawaii.
The project at the airport was to install over a hundred check-in workstations in a new terminal. Due to many delays, this part never actually happened by the time my part of the project came to an end. However, I did get to do the following:
- Installed servers, switches, kvm's into 2 server rooms. This involved the frustrating and sometimes painful job of reconfiguring the racks to fit equipment of various sizes. If you've ever worked with caged nuts, you know what I mean. It's basically like putting together Ikea furniture in hell.
- Helped to prepare and image over 100 workstations, involving installing over 100 pci cards.
- Moved heavy equipment back and forth and back and forth again...to different areas of the airport as well as the server rooms in the new terminal, which was still a construction site, by the way.
- I had the pleasure of having to coordinate deliveries and work done by contractors...both of whom usually spoke very little english and didn't have a good sense of time management/time estimation.
3 comments:
Why thank you, brother for this detailed insight into your working life. (Mom said you are so smart after she read this, so I figured I ought to put some high-falutin' words down too)
Did you have to create the image, or just image the workstations? I hate imaging things. Takes forever... well, ours does because our images are so big.
Sounds like you are doing a lot of what I did when I first got here. I was installing new servers and workstations all over the base; we were essentially building a brand new network for the base. Now, I just maintain security on the network which is a lot more relaxing. =)
the image was already built, so we were just applying the image. But, due to some bugs, we couldn't image them directly using ghost nor could we load the image directly on the pc. We had to take the hard drives out of each of the workstations, apply part of the image on an older pc, put the hard drive back and finish the image on the newer pc.
loads of fun!
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