Are you a tech person?

[jimkopelli]

I was going to venture a guess at 1/8th to 1/4th of the membership, we should do a poll sometime about it :)
I always end up noting... so I might as well do this... so I can stop...

[jimkopelli]

Note... you can select more than one option... but we'll know how many are at each level.

[Groty]

I'm a tech...sorta, sometimes, depends what needs to be done.

Cold Fusion, VBScript, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, blah...blah...blah...

Some SQL, Javascript, and I don't wanna think about anymore.

I can read and understand almost any other language dropped in front of me, but I'm not proficient in it: ie. Java, Cobol, Perl

I know my way around Windows "guts" pretty well, Windows Scripting Host and stuff. Somewhat knowledgeable when it comes to NetAdmin, Server Hardware, Telephony, and bunches of proprietary POS(Note: Not Point of Sale) systems.

And I get "paid" for it.

[int]

Hmm...All of them are true for me depending on who I'm talking to, so I selected them all.

I just got a job being a jack-of-all trades IT tech. Gotta master them all too. Everything from removing spyware to setting up and managing networks and servers. Website design. Systems admin. Telephony. Linux. Macs. Etcetera. It's on the ground floor of a startup...should make for an interesting year. The guy wants to help me with certs too, which is kinda fun even if it is needless.

Mediocre pay for now but if things happen like the new boss says it will I'll be pretty happy. I'm skeptical but keeping my fingers crossed.

[file cabinet]

chose the top 3. I rarely actually give 'tech support' but it does happen occasionally.

My strengths are in PHP/JavaScript/MySQL.

[SheepDog]

I've been a Unix and NT SysAdmin, but that's been a while. More recently, I'm doing coding. Mostly C/C++, Java, Perl, and a little ksh, plus SQL and more recently LDAP. My home is in xNIX, and I tend to avoid MS environments, except when forced to use them as a desktop. I've built my own (Linux) PCs and am hosting a few HTTP servers, Mail servers, and DNS on them.

[SensEye]

Note... you can select more than one option... but we'll know how many are at each level.Actually you won't, since you have no idea how many respondents check multiple options. You might want to try again with radio buttons if you want any insight into heeroyuy's original query.

[xavierd]

This pretty much sums up my qualifications except I don't know much about XML, XSL, Windows Scripting Host, or Telephony.


I'm a tech...sorta, sometimes, depends what needs to be done.

Cold Fusion, VBScript, HTML, XML, XSL, CSS, blah...blah...blah...

Some SQL, Javascript, and I don't wanna think about anymore.

I can read and understand almost any other language dropped in front of me, but I'm not proficient in it: ie. Java, Cobol, Perl

I know my way around Windows "guts" pretty well, Windows Scripting Host and stuff. Somewhat knowledgeable when it comes to NetAdmin, Server Hardware, Telephony, and bunches of proprietary POS(Note: Not Point of Sale) systems.

And I get "paid" for it.

[anarchist]

well I was doin embedded system programmin and stuff...and yes I'm pretty good with computers...now doing my masters in Electrical Engg ..so obvioulsy I'll end up as a techie....

[MacGuffin]

It's funny that INTPs see themselves as iconoclasts, individuals. Yet so many end up in the same profession.

Like sheep. Sheep!

[jjt]

Well, I'm not a computor techy person! My husband says I have the right sort of brain for it, but I'm just not interested.
I'm technically minded and a great problem solver but only in other areas of interest.

[SheepDog]

It's funny that INTPs see themselves as iconoclasts, individuals. Yet so many end up in the same profession.

Like sheep. Sheep!
HERESY! :laser:

[MacGuffin]

HERESY! :laser:

Eliminate the last three letters of your name....

[Zero Angel]

Eliminate the 2nd to 4th letters of your name. Mmmmm.....

[Boneca]

I've been doing tech support (servers and multimedia applications) and software testing for several years, but not anymore. Does it still count?

[Zero Angel]

I'm a mere HTML/CSS expert but a PHP Newbie (I can implement templating, context menus, and some code customization, but thats about it, mostly using just echos, includes, variables and functions) With all your XML, PERL and python stuff, I feel like I have a really long ways to go to get up to your levels.

How did you guys learn all these languages, are you self-taught?

[SheepDog]

How did you guys learn all these languages, are you self-taught?
I've taken C/C++ (and other CS classes) at a local university, but not part of a degree. Perl and Java were self taught. C/C++ are a really good foundation for these two, though, because they're both very "C-like". C is also a good tool for someone living in the *NIX world.

[SheepDog]

Eliminate the last three letters of your name....
I do appreciate irony.
http://www.ipocministries.org/sheeps.htm

[nona]

How's this for techy INTP dream job...

I research and recomend for purchased fairly advanced computer based video production systems for NASA/Johnson. I also get to play around with the system configuration and implementation, but also have several engineers to finish the projects up after I get the conceptualizing done. I also supervise the 3D animation lab and I do some effects work myself... (preparing for the inevitable "why does NASA need special effects artists questions .... )

(gawd! no wonder I like to go to work every day... Oh and they actualy pay me to do this. and in my spare time I get to produce and direct TV.)

[jimkopelli]

Easy. To fake moon pictures.

No, not really... to show how satellites will look and stuff, right?

I got bored and was at a friends house that had the NASA channel once... old guys talking. Almost like Cspan.

[BritainOphira]

"ME BANGUM ROCKS TOGETHER!!! YAY!!!"

I'm horrible when it comes to technology. Sure, I can get my computer to work and do what I want it to most of the time, but that is purely luck most days. I can code html when I want to (i.e. when I am not too busy sleeping or doing something else equally important), and I have poked around with other coding languages, but I really don't care enough to put the time and effort into using them, so I don't bother to learn them either.

[heeroyuy]

It's funny that INTPs see themselves as iconoclasts, individuals. Yet so many end up in the same profession.

Like sheep. Sheep!


Hey! I didn't choose this because of you! I chose it in a vaccum! Stop repressing me! *Screams and runs upholding individuality*

Seriously though, yes, it is rather funny :) Most of us don't realize it until we're already here though, and it's too late to escape from the lusers ;) (not all of you are lusers, just some of you :), namely the ones that blame us for when you type your password in capitol letters)

[Clara]

:lol: :rofl: "Or, Why INTPs make such good Help-desk candidates"

[int]

<shudders at the thought of working a helpdesk again />

<shudders, I tell you !!! />

6 hours converting a bank site to new PCs, printers (on each PC), network printers, server setup and config, replaced 4 switches, removed hundreds of cables, setup 2 routers, tested every minute detail on every machine, setup email, configed applications I know nothing about. Then I got called to work on a second site cuz the idiot tech there couldn't pull his head out of his ass.

This was supposed to be a quick weekend gig.

Luckily I got overtime. Unfortunately I was underpaid. :mellow:

<shudders again/>


<edit> I forgot to add...I think the guy I worked with was an INTP. :) The smart one. Not the ass-for-a-hat no-talent-schmuck we dealt with. He was just a fool. </edit>

[Avengardh]

I occasionally give free tech support... not much else...
And I didn't read we could choose the other ones so I didn't.
I can pretty much solve any problem when it comes to everyday stuff (with everyday people), I could know more stuff better but I get way too bored.

I have also been known for absorbing info and helping out when my "partner" (INTP as well) in CS class (C++) needs resources. I am pretty good at just finding or seeing things others don't, but that's only after I frustrate myself.

Other than that...I am the one everyone calls when they hear "computer problem" or "website", sometimes I don't know anything about it, hardware still puzzles me and I want to learn more. But people think computers are just computers, nothing to it, it's all the same.

Anyway...I am not listing the languages I have come accross cause...I don't wanna.

~*Aven*~

[Zero Angel]

Luckily I got overtime. Unfortunately I was underpaid. :mellow:

<shudders again/>
If you can make your self indispensible and show that you are looking beyond what they are paying you, they are extra nice to you, even if its just accepting your requests for new office equipment such as a new laptop.

Depends on the organization I suppose, and how ignorant of your work the managers are.

The INTP might give you some competition because he also values achievement, so you are best knocking him off by cutting his brake line. :whistle:

[garak]

Yeah, I'm into C, C++, and Python mostly, as far as programming goes. I'm an all-unix guy too. I have been (very) sporadically doing it professionally for the past couple years, and it looks like I'll be soon getting a "real" (i.e. real money) job doing it.

[Warrior413]

I chose:

I occasionally give free tech support... not much else...
"ME BANGUM ROCKS TOGETHER!!! YAY!!!"

I'm pretty good with computers and also quite skilled at banging rocks together. I hope someday to be good at banging computers together.

[philotech]

I like hardware. I specialize in putting computers together (and getting them to run) fast. I can build cheap, cheap pcs for those who just check email and surf the web. Also, I can build awesome gaming pcs(Name a price and I opitimize based on upper limit). Since I know most about gaming(being a gamer myself) I know more about windows. I haven't seen a blue screen of death in over a year ;). As for programming languages I know utilitarian HTML and FORTRAN. Oh, I have basic exposure to Solaris too, but I haven't even touched that in a long time.

[matthew0028]

It's funny that INTPs see themselves as iconoclasts, individuals. Yet so many end up in the same profession.

Like sheep. Sheep!

I dunno. Personally, I'm gonna like/do what I want to do, regardless of whether other people do it.

So on the one hand, I won't want to do something just because everyone else is doing it. On the other, I'm not going to dislike something just because it's popular. I find that to be just as stupid. I like what I like, for my own reasons, and I feel it's stupid to try to change those things to be more like/unlike the masses.

As far as lots of INTPs being in the same profession, *shrug*. It makes sense to me that people with similar personalities will have similar interests. No problem there.

At least, that's my opinion.

[kuranes]

I would have checked "know my way around" on the survey but "around what?" is the question that popped into my head. There are some things considered basic by most, such as Excel, that I don't know diddly about other than scrolling down a list and plugging things into the squares, etc. But I have to know a lot about technologies that are far more exotic than that, as a salesperson for tech, and formerly a tech headhunter. This is not to say that I could DO those things. I have a VERY broad but pretty shallow grasp of tech options, especially enterprise strategies. "I know enough to be dangerous", as the old joke goes. My role is to get through the screeners and find out if an exec is interested in the basic business proposition. If he is, I turn it over to someone who IS more technical. Even that second person is not what i call a "true techie". The execs often don't want to get into tech detail discussions anyway. We had a bandwidth expander device, and I would talk to people about how it differed from "compression" and so forth. The real trick to being a "high level prospector" is giving the impression to screeners that you are part of the system, without actually lying to get away with it. I't's more of an art than a science. Social engineering lite.