Thread 107093992

Greentext IT guy... could he exist today? Seems like easy IT gigs don't exist anymore.

I always wanted one of those lazy girl jobs. Like you get paid $500k per year at Google to answer one email or two per day and attend a few meetings.

>>107093992 (OP)
>Seems like easy IT gigs don't exist anymore.
why wouldnt they? in OPs story it could be a small business maybe 10 employees. if theyre all using systems to do their work they need IT guy.

ive been a neet since 2018, how the fuck do i get an IT job with almost a 10 year resume gap?

>>107094042
they hire jeets now

No. He would be replaced by an entry level help desk position being paid $14 an hour to walk people through this shit.
The days of knowing the most basic computer shit getting you a cushy job are basically over.

Everything is contracted out now, including virtualization, support, development whether for an app or website, just everything. Jeets everywhere.

>>107094079
You apply to a small shop that doesn't have the resources to check your application and fucking lie.

>>107094135
bold to assume small businesses have the money to put a dedicated IT guy on payroll.

>>107094042
just outsource it to jeet in hyderabad, he will do all the ActiveDirectory shit and help remotely with all user problems for just few $

>>107093992 (OP)
I have a small IT company, managing infrastructures for SMB clients. Good 50% of IT guys I meet are exactly like that legendary anon. I don't know if they get their jobs through nepotism, blind luck or sheer HR incompetency, but there's a fuckload of them in IT. I try not to burn them too badly when I evaluate their "work" and take over the infra. If they're not assholes and show some potential, I gladly suggest the company owner to keep the guy. We create proper documentation, deploy monitoring, deploy shit like WDS that makes the IT guy's job even comfier, and we try to teach them sysadmin basics so they can actually take care of the daily shit while we manage the servers, firewalls and whatnot. So yes, these jobs/guys still exist, at least in Europe. Needless to say, these exist at specific companies - big enough to hire their own IT guy, small enough to survive the IT guy being incompetent and also smart/dumb enough to not go for outsourced IT (at least from the start). However from what I keep reading here about murrica it seems like the SMB sector is non-existent there and it's only gay corporations. Horrible.

>>107094277
why are indians so obsessed with Java and Python? no javascript in sight

I had an IT job that dwindled down to give me fewer and fewer responsibilities, and I believe I only don’t have that job any more because the company is failing horribly. The jobs definitely still exist, although you get paid like shit and you will ideally learn some new skills eventually.

>>107093992 (OP)
IT is outsourced to MSP's now. The golden age is over.

>>107094042
>small businesses
No such a thing in Idiocracy 2.0 Covid trumperica edition.

>>107094156
Even on call work would be good enough for someone with no recent job history, but you're right I did assume that.