How not to do Internet Connectivity
My first IT job was at a small company in Novato, California, that designed and built museum exhibits. At the time most companies either designed the exhibits or built them, but ours was the only one that did both. You could separate the services, and just do one or the other, but our end-to-end model was the best offering because the fabricators and designers were in the same building and could collaborate easily. The odd thing about separating the functions was that we could lose a bid to design a project, but win the bid to build it, and hence end up having to work closely with a competitor to deliver their vision. The company was small–only 60 employees. Half of them were fabricators who did not have computers, whereas the other half were designers and office staff who did. My original job was to be a “gopher” (or go-fer), who goes for stuff. If someone needed paint, screws, a nail gun, fumigation of a stuffed tiger, whatever, I’d get in the truck and take care of it. However, they quickly realized I was skilled with computers and they asked me to take over as their IT guy. (Note to newbies: When this happens, especially at a small company, people often don’t forget you had the old job. One day I might be fixing a computer, then the next...
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