Work experience for college, (This must be my first topic here :P) Options

[TheStranger]

Ok, i'm doing a course in college, Microsoft Office Specialist Programme. Anyway, obviously we are doing Word, Excel, Access and PowerPoint.

So, i'll be finished the course on June 9th, and I have found a place willing to hire me (Are they mad?) recently.

I was talking to the owner one night, and he's kind of an absentee owner. He has a manager to run the place, but he only has it open as a hobby, and I guess a quick buck on the side. So I was telling him about the course i'm doing.

He told me he'd have the perfect job, and to ring the manager who'd show me the ropes. Fair enough. I was told to wait a week and ring the guy. So I did that. Yesterday.

Thing is... On the phone, he was saying about "Network Maintenance" and i'm not really sure what the heck he will want me to do.

It'll be a place for LAN gaming and internet access, so seems like it'll be a place I wouldn't mind working if I can keep it after the 4 weeks.

But my problem is the network maintenance bit.

[Ibis]

What you studied is Software and what he's talking is a part of Hardware. I took Software Applications in college and it was exactly the courses you took - word, access, power point and accell.

My husband does hardware and networking is generally a term for the hooking together with wiring of several different computers to create a network, or a lan - Local Area Network. There are different formations of networking pair, straightline, star formation, etc. You'd probably do well to make sure that the manager is expecting you to handle the Software part of the LAN's and that he going to show you how to do it if it wasn't covered at your school.

You may be out of your league if he is expecting you to do the physical wiring because there are different grades and lengths of cable to use and other things you probably should know about it.

[TheStranger]

My husband does hardware and networking is generally a term for the hooking together with wiring of several different computers to create a network, or a lan - Local Area Network. There are different formations of networking pair, straightline, star formation, etc. You'd probably do well to make sure that the manager is expecting you to handle the Software part of the LAN's and that he going to show you how to do it if it wasn't covered at your school.

You may be out of your league if he is expecting you to do the physical wiring because there are different grades and lengths of cable to use and other things you probably should know about it.

Thanks. I'll be meeting up with him friday, but I wanted to find out something here about it. I don't want to wait till friday, find out I will not be able to do it, and start looking then for work experience. Then i'd be screwed.

I think i'd be wise to start looking for other places now, just for back up, and if I find out friday i'm out of luck on that front, it'd be nice to have some options open.