I answered a newspaper ad and found a technical support job in a computer monitor company for $1,650 a month.
By the time they learn enough to do a decent technical support job, they move off to nearby big cities to better paid jobs in the IT industry.
The technical support group, Duffy told me, is an important part of the manufacturing operation, and technical-support jobs would appeal to anyone who has an interest in quickly gaining responsibility and respect.
Some 40 subsidiaries handle outsourcing projects, recruitment of full-time staff, outplacement support to help redundant staff find new jobs, technical support, finding temporary jobs for the retired, and managing benefits schemes for other firms.
Long before Glee and The Big Bang Theory turned geeks into heroes, The IT Crowd was shining a light on that most stereotypical of nerd jobs: technical support.
"It was one of the first things I did when I got here," instant messaged Andrew Stein, 24, of his job as a technical support employee in his family's business.
That point was driven home for Mr. Allchin when he took on the time-consuming job of technical support for his 75-year-old mother's personal computer.
It was around noon on a Sunday in late January, and she was getting ready to leave the house to go to her job doing technical support at TurboTax.
Within economics, only 6.2%% of business administration graduates who found a job were working in their programme's occupational domain, compared to 78%% for automation specialists; within health care, 46.7 % of the graduates from general and technical support services who found a job were working in their occupational domain, compared to no less than 94.3 % for nursing and care graduates.
His job in technical support at Dish was getting harder and harder to do, so his doctor, who declined to be interviewed by VICE News, suggested he try medical marijuana in 2009.
He inquired about engineering and design jobs, but the only jobs available were a sales position in the United States and a job as a technical support engineer in Japan.
