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Your New Network Admin
Alright, so maybe it’s only for a couple weeks and I am in a team of about 4 people. Nonetheless it’s quite exciting and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.

I will admit I am a little nervous, but I only say that because I had a little scare last week, or maybe the week before.

** Que the day dreaming music **

It was normal day, and I was doing a consulting job right in the offices. It’s a good thing. Suddenly the 2nd in command messaged me telling me out website was down or very very slow and something had to be done. No one seemed to be able to get ahold of our network/systems administrator and I was the next one who might know what to do.

I tried to calmly rush through my appointment but doing so with care as to make sure the customer was satisfied and then I grabbed my MacBook and started to look for the issue.

Having absolutely no clue or notes on which of the many Xserves ran which web/other services I was scrambling around looking for notes or folders with notes that could possibly help me. Finally I found something, rather old but it seemed to work good enough.

Finally after awhile I was able to track down the bad server and the reason this was happening. The only thing that was stopping my was that I didn’t have the MySQL admin password.

About 10 minutes later the real network dude showed up and relived me. So all in all I was going in the right direction, I just didn’t have the proper privileges to correct the error.

** Que out of the day dreaming music **

For the next 2 weeks I will be working on projects like these and hoping nothing catastrophic happens as our network admin will be in the middle of nowhere with next to nothing or no real-work communication available. As I mentioned before I am very excited and I think this will be a great learning experience. This is the sort of job I should be working and I am trying to get in somewhere, because this is what utilizes my skills and doesn’t waste them.