Thanks again for the great response! 
I'm based in South Birmingham and yes I am willing to travel as in my present role my region is huge! In this role I cover Liverpool, Sheffield, Nottingham, Stoke and others that are along the M6 and M1.
I have family in London and Glasgow and I am of the opinion that I should be taking advantage of those "strongholds" as I'm sure that a family member will put me up - or put up with me for a price
I like to think that my comms skills are quite good - I have to deal with senior management on a day-to-day basis and often they rely on me to give them the correct advice on things like new site setups for instance advice and discussions on requirments such as switches, WAN Links, Servers, UPS, PBX systems, Desktops, Laptops, structured cabling, Video conferencing and ISDN requirments too. Often they just jump me when I'm doing a support call and ask me to attend budget meetings to justify the need for the technology.
So after that paragraph of complete bollocks, I'd like to think that I'm a switched on but purposely in IT normal type person...if such thing really exists
Yes I would consider shift work if the money and work involved was right! So far I've recieived 2 calls from agencies asking if I would do shift work...but in a service centre
mad Now I know there is A LOT of 1st line work out there but to be honest I did helpdesk work for 3 years and feel that I've done my time - but I'm a firm believer that the best IT Support people come from a Helpdesk background...well I would say that
I know there is zillions of Desktop and 2nd/3rd line Support people out there too - but from what I've seen and have been told by agents and employers is that a lot of them are paper MCSE twits or just not very good! And that there is a market for good 2nd/3rd line people
P.S.sorry for crap spelling and grammer - trying to type this post but I keep being interrupted...
I'm based in South Birmingham and yes I am willing to travel as in my present role my region is huge! In this role I cover Liverpool, Sheffield, Nottingham, Stoke and others that are along the M6 and M1.
I have family in London and Glasgow and I am of the opinion that I should be taking advantage of those "strongholds" as I'm sure that a family member will put me up - or put up with me for a price
I like to think that my comms skills are quite good - I have to deal with senior management on a day-to-day basis and often they rely on me to give them the correct advice on things like new site setups for instance advice and discussions on requirments such as switches, WAN Links, Servers, UPS, PBX systems, Desktops, Laptops, structured cabling, Video conferencing and ISDN requirments too. Often they just jump me when I'm doing a support call and ask me to attend budget meetings to justify the need for the technology.
So after that paragraph of complete bollocks, I'd like to think that I'm a switched on but purposely in IT normal type person...if such thing really exists
Yes I would consider shift work if the money and work involved was right! So far I've recieived 2 calls from agencies asking if I would do shift work...but in a service centre
mad Now I know there is A LOT of 1st line work out there but to be honest I did helpdesk work for 3 years and feel that I've done my time - but I'm a firm believer that the best IT Support people come from a Helpdesk background...well I would say that I know there is zillions of Desktop and 2nd/3rd line Support people out there too - but from what I've seen and have been told by agents and employers is that a lot of them are paper MCSE twits or just not very good! And that there is a market for good 2nd/3rd line people
P.S.sorry for crap spelling and grammer - trying to type this post but I keep being interrupted...
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Especially when you don't hear back from them...had a lot of that a few years back before I got a permie position in local govt! For the job I got now the agency were the first to call me - things went on from there! My present job is the first job an agency has ever got for me. Up until then I never really had that much faith in them!
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