In my degree I done a CO-OP year at my Uni and work level 1,2,3 on a NT 4.0 domain, creating 3 thousand accounts every month and making accounts inactive, got to support all my lecturers as well, it was a good grounding for the real world.
From there went to Senior Desktop, at Transport SA (I know moved from Vic for various reasons at the time) Developed SOE's on Compaq HP hardware using windows 2000, then while in SA took a pay cut to do a systems Admin role with Windows 2000 server and upgrade from NT 4.0 to 2000 AD and upgrade from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000, worked myself out of the job as I had scripts fixing the network up and implemented GPO to lock down the desktops. In the end we parted ways very happy. At that stage I finally finished my degree after 3 years part time study
Bach of Business in Computer System Support at Victoria University.
Moved back to Melbourne and got a Job at a Software development company playing with all the latest technology at the time 2003 server and exchange and upgarded all internal systems and implemented a stable environment. from there I was doing technical design for the software solution around security and implementation in IIS 6.0 and SQL 2005. While there I decieded to get the following:
MCP, MCSA+Messaging, MCSE and CCNA
Now I work with a Multi National as a Systems Engineer and further grown my skill base. I now manage 240 servers and 3000 desktops and responsible for Domain and Exchange design for the whole APAC region.