Gaming and working from RV

wanderingaimlessly wrote:
DD and SIL moved in last winter, he is a gamer (or thinks he is)
He bemoaned our lack of high speed internet (we had satellite) which after he burned through 16 Gigs updating his garbage, he found out it still wouldn't work. So he bought a new phone and plan from ATT.
Verizon here was only giving about 3 Mgbps, so a contract for an additional $100 or so a month netted him a contracted phone with 16-30 Mbps, which still doesn't work.

As an aside 5 months and he still isnt working, because he is holding out for an IT job so he wont have to work long hours , nights, or weekends.

I don't care who you are, but THAT is the most funniest thing I have heard of..

Not a lot of IT jobs are only daylight "bankers hrs", many are 24/7/365 with lovely rotating shifts and the newest hires typically get the midnight to morning routine and full holiday working treatment and not to mention "on call" to boot..

I do essentially "desktop support" and is daylight only hrs, which in my area pays the same as IT helpdesk, many areas of the country, IT helpdesk pays at a higher rate so I am lucky to get the same pay as the poor saps that must deal with 24/7/365 and on call rotations..

Jobs like mine do not open often, I have been doing this for 30 yrs when combining my time between the two companies I have worked at in this type of position..

There are many different "types" of "IT jobs" now days, when I started you either fixed/setup computers (desktop support) or you were "helpdesk", now there is dozens of highly specialized IT positions which have very specific roles and education requirements.

As far as getting "gaming" speed and unlimited data/bandwidth from mobile providers, that is a pipe dream..