Anyone working a job that has them bored to tears?

[Graves]

sorry, i love my job. i sit on my ass until someone decides to get loud and dissruptive. Then its go time, they have 2 choices 1. leave on there own or 2. hit every wall, door, chair on the way out lol

Security guard at a Bingo hall?

[Irving]

I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.

[Big Wall]

I'm really, really tired of being under employed and not being able to find a job that suits me better. At my current job, I just read between calls and have already read like 10-12 books this year. Helps keep my mind off how I'm making the same amount of money as I did when I was 16.

Unfortunately I know exactly what you mean.

[rondog]

I work in telecom, basically a fiber optic tech. I don't do splicing and cables, my world starts where the fiber cable is terminated into the splicing panels. I'm on call 24/7/365, and my territory runs approx. 300 miles east, west and south of Denver.

There's the fiber cables in the ground running all over the world, and then there's the electronic equipment that's connected to those fibers, that's MY world. I maintain that equipment at 15 remote sites from Grand Junction to Norton, KS, and down to Raton, NM. Plus all the fiber optic circuits at our main switch site in Denver, which is a huge job in itself.

Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment, I just replace components and install/disconnect circuits. Basically, I'm a pothole filler on the Information Superhighway. Worst part is a large amount of my work has to be done after midnight, regardless of where I have to go. So I get to drive in lots of nighttime snowstorms. Yay.

[Seamonkey]

Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment,

That's what I used to do and, if I can find a job, will probably be doing again. Nice and boring until something breaks then it's ... quite interesting!

[Hoosier]

Primarily huge transport circuits for data and voice, from 45mbps up into several terabytes of bandwith. Thank God I don't have to operate that equipment, I just replace components and install/disconnect circuits. Basically, I'm a pothole filler on the Information Superhighway. Worst part is a large amount of my work has to be done after midnight, regardless of where I have to go. So I get to drive in lots of nighttime snowstorms. Yay.

So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192

H.

[Seamonkey]

So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192

H.

As long as it's not an E1. Please don't bust out an FCC-100!

[Hoosier]

As long as it's not an E1. Please don't bust out an FCC-100!

Ah I'm glad all those days are done. I worked (as a programmer) in Datacenters from about 95 through 99. Now all that hardware is handled by other people, to me it's just bits in some mythical cloud somewhere. If a piece of hardware fails I just turn off that instance and launch a new one. New servers auto configure themselves on launch, do everything but put themselves into service.

H.

[rondog]

So someone who knows what I mean when I say DS3 or OC192

H.

Yessir! My world starts with DS3's, and runs up into DWDM transport. If it runs on coax or fiber for my co. in CO, it's mine. We're merging with Level 3, so God only knows what's going to happen now.

[Lex_Luthor]

I scan records and convert them to images to be filed in my company's database. I'm starting to take on a project manager - type role recently, and my boss is putting in for a raise for me! w00t!