Do people using pfsense all work in IT?
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I work in an IT related position (in Marketing) .. so do I count?
I don't know - can marketing people count? ;)
I play in IT - it can hardly be called work, does that count also?
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I play in IT - it can hardly be called work, does that count also?
Doesn't get better than that. You get my vote. :)
Steve
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I'm a system's designer and consultant that does a lot of programming. I've been building computers since I was 8 years old. Now that I think back, I'm not sure why my dad let an 8 year old handle $3k of computer parts. Anyway, my college job was actually as IT for my University. We were the second tier support and coordinated many projects that involved the admins. We had access to the entire system, from VLANs to servers. The kind of work we did required such access, primarily for debugging reasons. We got so much food from happy teachers after we fixed their computers.
I now spend most of my time in front of a computer, but I still find myself coordinating admins. I'm not in a management position, I just tend to mesh well with other tech people. They seem to like how I mostly understand and appreciate how and why they do things, so they tend to play well with me. I only ask for permissions that I need, and can explain why I need them and provide alternative ways of accomplishing the same job with pros and cons. I also tend to be good at identifying something that may affect an admin, and ask for their blessing even if I already have access. Admins like that.
I have an educational and hobby interest in network and server design and security. That was something like 5 classes alone with 3-4 credits per class. But nearly all of my post-graduation professional experience is in system design, programming, customer data interfaces, and SQL.
Not really IT.
Computers are so much fun.
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I'm an economist by education and profession. Started with 'puters a long time ago, and managed to destroy every operating system within hours after installing them. Of course windows (I don't recall the version, it came on two 1.44 floppies ;D ), OS/2, and a zillion Linux-versions (those were the days, early nineties, 'Linux will be king in 3 years' or so the talking heads in the computer magazines were writing back then). FreeBSD I met early 2000's, the first I didn't crash within hours, so my eternal love goes to FreeBSD, and therefor also to pfSense.
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I'm sad to say I work in IT also :P Been in the field for about 16+ years… Started as a Network/Windows Admin for a small company then was recruited by an evil empire (a large MSO) 12+ years ago. Since then I've worked on high end network equipment, window servers, pbx, acd systems. I have gone thru many changes here but it keeps it interesting... These days I work mostly on Telephony/CTI Application servers... Miss working on networks but its fun when I prove the network team wrong because their config is messed up (I hate one-way audio calls)
Stephen
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Started as PC-assembling helper in early 90's to pay some bills at university, I am a Mechanical Engineering, M.Sc.
I am an IT enthusiast and tech-fanatic, now I pay my bills working as VP Maintenance for a major EU Airline.
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Fun thread. -^_^-
I'm in IT and am a systems and network administrator. I've been doing it for about 2 years now and was a helpdesk person before that. All in all I think I'm much less a "network admin" for my title than others on here are, as I've only been doing things for corporations for about 4 years now and before that I stocked shelves at walmart. lol
So really, even though I am a network admin for about 450 employees(several trucking companies) I'm more just that tinkerer at heart. :D I started programming and stuff when I was about 14 and computers were simply a huge passion. I actually really didn't want to go into IT as a profession because I felt like I would be too restricted and I also didn't tend to focus on single areas and thus, was very much so a jack of all trades type. It hasn't been until the last 2.5 years that I have pursued Network administration. VERY hard and fun and frustrating. I like that I have been able to do this, but I'd actually rather be a makeup artist or design makeup. <3 In particular, I'm a nail polish fanatic. lol
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Not IT in the Business sense, but what is commonly called "manufacturing IT" or "Automation Controls". lots of computing, switching, and routing as it pertains to automated machinery. The business IT work that is increasingly forced on me I perform with a fair degree of rancor.
I only use pfSense at home, admittedly less and less. I much prefer a Cisco router, but with the speeds I have at home, Cisco equipment would be quite costly, although I just picked up a couple 2851s with VPN modules that I may be switching to, at least temporarily for lab purposes.
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I just like using hardware that isn't made by any big company - for a variety of reasons.
It being cheap/free is just an ancillary benefit.
Not an IT guy.
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I`m an IT guy :)
I use pfSense at home and at work.
We used to have Cisco and Juniper but I achieved exactly the same thing with pfSense but waaaaaaaaaaaa…aaay cheaper.- I alwasy have backup machine ready and steady to go if primary fails. Again $$$ can`t compare to what we had before.
I had trial 1Gb/s link at home, and NIC that handled that 1Gb/s in routing mode cost me like 20€ :)
- I know what I have installed and not being tied to some vendor :)
I can always switch to Smoothwall on the same HW :)
