Okay, so a brief little bit about myself…
In my day job (or, well at the moment night job) I’m the newest member of the Vancouver NOC team. I’ve been with PEER1 for almost a month and a half. It’s a very interesting company to work for, and a really great challenge for me. It’s a very different type of work than I’ve done in the past. I’m not going to get all in depth about the past right now — the past formed me but it isn’t who I am.
Besides, I’m sure I’ll get into it later as I tend to be a chatty blogger.
So I’ve decided to use this blog as a forum for my thoughts on business, technology, and of course, work. I’ll be trying to cross-post this to my Wordpress blog, and to my company blog on staff.peer1.com.
First topic: Night shifts. I’ve just completed my second week of night shifts in the NOC. As far as issues, you get quite a grab bag. Everything from backbone issues, to my personal favourite, remote hands requests for overseas clients (not naming names — but the NOC guys know who I’m talking about). It’s also been nice to work along side the very talented Mark (Senior Analyst). He’s quite a good mentor to work with, and I’ve been learning lots.
However, the only thing that bugs me are the slow times. Those times when there is no alerts coming in, no e-mails, no calls. Trying to go over old tickets, or read up on network information to still feel like you’re doing something USEFUL while getting paid. Aaand did I mention trying to stay awake?
Oh well, it’s something I’m sure I’ll get better at.
