No idea if those skills would be transferable. I was on the small to mid sized biz side. Never worked for a provider or anything. Mainly managing, installing and configuring systems.

Once you understand the basics of telephony it’s pretty easy. It’s getting more complex now since it’s all ip/sip based but because that’s a skill that is lacking because everyone who does know that wants to be a network or security guy, not the phone guy/gal.

If you are working it now. Figure out who’s doing your phones and express interest in learning. It’s how everyone I know got into it.

You don’t need to work with the big guys.

Small businesses, managed service, utilities, hospitals all need telecom guys. Ive been out of telecom for years and I still have recruiters occasionally reaching out to me.

If you really want IT. Then telecom

Most people in telecom are old and are analog phone people, they don’t know ip/sip and don’t want to learn.

It’s basically a small networking job that you never get calls on nights and weekends about and if you do it’s a system you can reboot remotely. If it’s not the system it’s a switch and its someone else’s job.

Telecom isn’t sexy but it’s still needed, no one’s going into it as it’s not ‘sexy’ and to be honest it’s easy AF.

My algo shows me nonstop car break ins in the Bay area ( for some reason or another) and they have gloves and it’s amazing how quick they shatter.

So would this be a good alternative to Synology photos?

Part of me thinks we get what we deserve.

Check mate. Sucker.

They should really explain what it is for those of us that don’t know

Yeah housing gains do nothing for you if you want to stay in the same area.

Theoretically you’ll have more equity so you can take out loans, but with high interest rates you’ll likely avoid that… and your property taxes will eventually go up since your home value has gone up.

Hate the fact that my house has gained so much.

I should have been a contractor/tradesman.

This article will get down voted by Lemmy’s rabid nuclear energy crowd.

The Ford method is a good one. I think?

Jesus Christ. It’s like asking if I’d rather get kicked in the nuts or punched in there.

This book gets a lot of shit, probably deservedly so, but I enjoyed the story, but skip over the monologue.

Unions across the US should be pushing this.

Shareholders and corporations are making record profits meanwhile inflation/shrinkflation, housing, gas, energy, healthcare, childcare and every other aspect of life keeps rising.

People are getting upset and angry, even people like me who have historically been ‘meh’ on unions are totally on the workers side and hoping that they get the best deals possible.

Jeff bezos has billions of dollars and travels to space and his employees are pissing in Gatorade bottles. Fuck them. Get yours

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I don’t think it will be that hard to be honest, but that was actually one of my concerns.

Sorry, i must not have made it clear. I’m good with the top end of their pay. Not happy about it, but ultimately, i’d be ok with it.

Is it ok to tell them that I make more now, so I’d be shooting for the high end of the range?

I think it’s a little of both… but mainly over qualified.

From what I gathered it’s a new position, and the room for growth is there as the job has many steps within the organization, so I’d potentially only be making less for a short while as they will eventually need the levels 3/4, but also realistically who knows about that.

So let the french kids who are not muslim, wear these robes and see what happens.