A Day in the Life of an IT Technician: Why is IT Boring 

Good luck in your interview, when I am hiring I am looking for good customer service skills which is a big plus for me, good knowledge, trouble shooting skills and exposure with range of the main applications.

All the Chromebooks were asset-tagged with QR codes, but the time-consuming part was typing the serial numbers in Google Workspace to decommission the Chromebooks

@@cringetechnologies have you tried using a USB/Bluetooth barcode scanner so you can just one tap the Serial Numbers on the back?

Lol 'chew off the rubber bits ' 😂 I don't think I have come across that before

Hello, how did you get into IT? do you just do certificates? If so what are they, because I'm just a college student that major in liberal art but I was also planning to get certificates in IT as well.

Similar experience did my first IT role many many years ago 😁 volunteering at a private school for 6 months, then they offered me the Job full time

@@assassin7250 I got into IT back in 2017. I had my Comptia A+ and I applied for a job at my local school district and interviewed and got the job. School and College IT is easier to get in than corporate jobs but tend to pay a little less but once you have a little experience you can pivot to corporate.

@@assassin7250 I studied art (filmmaking) as well but im in love with IT too, here's what I did. I was working in Public relations and was fixing phones as a hobby at work, eventually my boss saw that i had a passion for technology and told me if i wanted to go in the I.T department, i told him that I would love too but I didn't have any certifications or degrees in computers I just did it for fun. My boss talked to the Boss in the I.T department waited for the year to finish and then they transitioned me. The pay was low because I didn't have any studies but I didn't care cause I was getting experience while studying for a Comptia A+ cert. after 1 year and a half I moved to another job working in I.T for a university while doing networking with other I.T members and I tried to look for advice everywhere being discord, reddit, youtube, read tech books just like you because I am passionate after a few months later they offer me an interview for a I.T role in a Casino & hotel...they went with somebody else, a military dude with lots of certs and experience with hotels and what not but he wanted a lot of $$$ more that they could offer, since they couldn't pay him the amount he didn't sign the papers...and so they picked me next as their 2nd choice and so far I have been showing them that I can help them in anyway I can. I love what I do and have space for learning, studying for certs or doing side projects at work if it's not to busy. My advice show people how passionate you are with tech, be vocal about it and work for it, there is enough info. out there for you to make it and best of all most jobs need a tech guy, so you are in luck. also human resources don't know much about tech so don't get scared if what they ask for a job needs 5+ years experience in this or that etc...what they write on paper (expectations) and what the company needs don't always apply in real-life, you will see what i mean when you get your first I.T job. so apply for a job anyway (even if you have no experience or have little certs or if it's entry level) get a lot of interviews even if they don't pick you and see what they're asking about, ask them what certs do they need because not all certs apply to all jobs either and that you are still studying to get certified in something. they're questions are more about customer service with a twist of technical aspects because they want to see how you handle a situation. find solutions with what you have at hand. what the employeer/customer cares about on your resume is not always the certifications but your work experience. the certs are there for 2 things: 1. get a boost of confidence knowing how tech works 2. to bypass the gatekeepers which is human resources the certs mean nothing if you have no real experience working with a customer they will be skeptical or laugh behind your back if you have many certs but no real job experience. btw I only have 2 years as an I.T guy. working towards my Net+ cert soon. I still would love to work making movies because I love the tech in filmmaking, like "I'm not a fan of Star Wars, I'm a fan of how Star Wars got made" Hope this helps, Be driven I'm sure you'll make it.

For that particular job, yes, we did go through all the laptop trollies in the classroom. We needed to make sure we were decommissioning the right Chromebooks. Thank you; I am glad you liked the videos. Good luck with your job, and keep me posted on how you are doing and your school setup. I would be good to see how you manage your system at your school.

In a cybersecurity career, you will still spend a significant amount of time sitting down, but hopefully not as much as coding. I would suggest taking networking courses along with cybersecurity, as they are interconnected.

@@cringetechnologies Appreciate the advice! Thank you.

I made a video on that very subject check it out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PGge72HPt2o.htmlsi=JPgexoIsZsCajqTb

I agree that depending on your IT role, there will be a lot of customer service involved. In my specific role, customer service is a major component.

@@cringetechnologies It is undeniable we need these "soft skills".