I have worked in IT for more than two and a half decades, that starts with running cables through a university as a side job during the summer, through to working in genuine honest to christ hell-on-earth call centres, to working for a pretty big software company in various countries scattered about the place, to doing that MSO thing, to running migration projects for tens of thousands of users and designing and building entire virtual datacentre environments for multinational organisations.
I’ve built NT servers and I’ve migrated entire organisations away from AD domains and into Azure AD and InTune, effectively being at the front line throughout the whole life-cycle of On-Premise IT.
I know exactly how bad a contrived answer to an interview question this sounds – I’ve sat on both sides of the interview – but I am utterly passionate about technology, about providing the best for my users and providing the best possible toolset and value. Theres nothing better than someone’s realisation that I’ve just made their job 100% easier, 500% more useful and infinitely more rewarding.
Right now I absolutely class myself as a Microsoft 365 Engineer. To my mind there is no higher job title then engineer, my dad had the same title but he would whack stuff with stonking great metal spanners to get them working. It didnt look controlled and there was some luck involved – and it wasn’t what the tool is for or how the machine was meant to be serviced – but if you know how the machine works, what its meant to do and what you need it to do he reckoned it was then a simple matter of whacking it in the right place with the right force at the right time. I use Powershell for the exact same thing and figured I might as well share my results here in the case it saves someone googling 50 pages and still needed a little more luck than they’d prefer.
