As some people may remember, I have a summer job in a school. As some of you may also (but probably not) remember it went bust last year.
Anyway, they got bought out and I've got a couple of weeks work. One now and one in August, just setting up bunk-beds etc, which isn't great compared to the full-time "handy-man" work they usually give me.
Well it turns out that while I was at uni, the company also bought another local school which takes kids from 3-18, and they are turning that school into a nursery/primary, and using it as the feeder school for the school I've worked at for the last four years the secondary. This means lots of extra pupils in September. This means lots of extra computers.
I saw LOADS of pallets of Dell gear arrive yesterday, so I went and found the network manager and explained to him that I'm studying networks at uni, and I've not got any work next month, then asked if he could use another set of hands to help setting up the extra gear. He said yes!
The only problem is that they've said they can't pay me, but they will cover my travel costs and provide lunch. I was expecting this tbh, as they're really cutting back on staffing costs hard but I'm still pretty chuffed. I think he said it was 200 machines and associated gear - switches, routers, servers, racks & cabinets, printers etc etc etc
I'm pretty excited, and I'm sure it's going to be a valuable experience. I made it pretty clear that if I wasn't going to get paid I'd expect a bloody good written reference afterwards, which I'm hoping will be really useful come September when I've got to start searching for a company who will employ me for my sandwhich year.
(where is the sad face smiley????