techrecovery | Somebody help me. (Reply)

This help may come in the form of a clue brick, proper application of a LART, or just plain shoot me now (and yes, there's more than a few of you who could provide that service), but hear this one out.

I'm thinking of getting back in the business. Why?

Maybe I'm a masochist. I left to finish my Business degree. It's only a two-year, but it's something. I'll be done in the fall, and the school thing just isn't sitting so well with me as I thought it would. I did two years, some part-time, as I worked on that degree. I'm one of those people everyone loves to hate, one of those upstarts that maybe really doesn't know the world over but comes with some clue, yet not enough clue to avoid the pain and misery that I see posted here all the time.

I was a consumer help desk monkey. The work sucked and I got it because they needed warm bodies. The standard went down as time went on - hell, we were hiring graphics designers and people who had heard of a computer before it was over. Realistically, what's my odds of being able to go back even if I wanted to? The ranting of the community aside, why would I want to? Maybe I have to answer that for myself. I'm not going to be in the same part of the world so I can't go back to my old job, nor would I want to. Working a phone again all day would get to me. I need to have my hands on the equipment.

So, pray tell me, how hard is it to find something filling tickets fixing desktops, servicing IP phones, or doing NT admin stuff? Are those days gone, filled with people getting paid the same as me on commission to sell parts to Grandma on behalf of a big box?

Or is my time out of the field a golden opportunity to run while I can?