Well, it's over!! Yippee!!!! Sorry to all those out there, that I might offend, in advance. What stress this year, and I am not sure why?, because I jump headfirst with both feet into the Christmas Spirit. Jeff, my husband was not at all in the Christmas Spirit, so it was tough to carry it for the both of us. Last night, was the first time, I actually heard him hum a Christmas song all year, maybe it was a hum of relief.

My parents finally called later, and the depth of my brain function left was to watch the "Tooth Fairy", with my youngest son. It was nice, just to mindlessly stare at TV, not being responsible for anything. Whew, glad it is over. Amen!
 

Demands and expectations of the employees are also increasing with their increasing demand in the market. Inspite of the fact that with an anticipated rise of around 28% in the financial year 2005-06, scorching rise carry on to be the trend this year also. Till date country has the monopoly in the IT industry as far as IT Outsourcing is concerned. Along with Offshore Software Development country is also demanded for BPO services. Lots of overseas big giants have their presence in India for such managed it services.

Help yourself first. Try tech support I.T some basic troubleshooting. Most problems can be solved by restarting your computer. Next try unplugging your highspeed modem and your router. Plug them back in, restart your computer again. If that doesn't work, then call us. We appreciate it when you try things on your own.

It's important to celebrate each victory, each sale, every follow-up you didn't want to do (but did it anyway) and most of all, every time you stepped out of your comfort zone. I have been following a mentor who had huge numbers attached to her programs and mine were much less. Initially I felt I'd failed Managed I.T support uttah and I found myself looking at the situation very negatively. When in fact I had generated more business in that month than previous month, and had served more people. My lesson was to celebrate my own victories both big and small. Too many times we look outside ourselves to what others are doing and if we don't live up then we feel "less" than. Who's served by that?

Another t-shirt that's guaranteed to leave you warm and fuzzy reads "I get paid for tech support..." on the front, "...I don't get paid to care" on the back.

I formatted the drive, wiping everything off of it, went to the "backup" utility that appears when the C-Drive Icon is right clicked, and hit ENTER. The entire C-Drive copied itself on my external drive just as if it were a memory stick. It took 5 mins to set up, and was there the whole time. DUH.