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Internship is Over

My internship with the Washington State Democrats is finally over, and I'm out of money for school, so it's time to start looking for a paying gig. I really hope I can get something in the IT industry, but I want to go somewhere and be a minion. For all intents and purposes, I was the Network Administrator while I was with the Dems , and most of the time I felt like I was out of my league. My boss was a good guy, but as
I said here before, he attained his position in IT by being really good at data bases. he knows almost nothing about networks. So instead of learning from someone who knew what they were doing, I was put in a sink-or-swim kinda position. I'm not complaining, I really appreciate the opportunity I had with theDems because it showed me how much more I need to learn, but I spent a lot of my time there being very frustrated with my own inabilities.

Speaking of data bases, I can really see the up-side to knowing that type of thing well, and have a whole new appreciation for people who are good at them. Data bases are a discipline in and of themselves. During my first quarter in school, I had to take a class in the Windows Office suite. I did well in everything but the Access portion. I guess I wasn't very motivated because I thought, "What does this have to do with building networks?" And the answer is, "not much." But I have learned that in almost any kind of business setting one will inevitably deal with data bases to
some degree. So lately, I've gotten out my old textbook from that class and started playing around with Access by cataloging my CD collection. Then I'll use that data base to start working with running queries. A basic understanding of SQL would also be a good thing. Hey, at least it's not math.

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