• @Potatos_are_not_friends
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    5311 months ago

    That’s incredible.

    Then again, school IT jobs are often given to “my nephew who is good with computers”, because the pay is often half compared to the private sector.

    • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
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      2611 months ago

      One teacher told us that once an IT technician at our school built the network, connecting 2 school institutions with ~7 buildings using only hubs. That network was apparently almost unusably slow, which isn’t surprising.

      • Saik0
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        211 months ago

        Do what you can with what you have…

    • @xpinchx
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      1111 months ago

      I have a friend that does IT/networking for a school district and he makes bank, YMMV.

      • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆
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        11 months ago

        My brother works for a school with 200 kids PreK-12. He’s a teacher, but he also does IT. He gets a $500/yr stipend, and he calls me at least twice a week with basic questions that are solved 95% of the time by rebooting the computer.

        I’ve told him a number of times the district owes me that stipend lol

        • Outcide
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          711 months ago

          $500 a year?!? Hey buddy, thanks for looking after our IT systems, here’s an extra $1.50 a week …

          • @[email protected]
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            411 months ago

            That’s ridiculous!

            I’m surprised it’s not a student ran IT Club that the kids have a pay a materials fee for…