Strangely, I'm not sure how to answer that. Which is why I'm just brainstorming here.
Back in 2001 I was re-starting University and found myself part of the select community of internet cafe operators (by necessity, uni Labs were packed and it wasn't cheap to buy internet time). I was a good customer, studying computer science and willing to work partly just to be online.
Is that a tech job? Most of the time it was about manning front desk and collecting payment, operating the cash register and occasionally showing a grandma how to email.
In time I also learned about networks and got to replacing our tech support in times of crisis. As a side thing, internet cafe operators were the backbone of the local IRC communities, being able to man channel operations day and night - which allowed me to try writing IRC scripts and bots (not my first brush will the programming but the first with a practical use).
One of my colleagues was a very talented girl, the first full time Linux user I met (pure Debian) who went on to design network security systems.
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If it took up more than 20+ hours a week for more than a month, then yes, it's work experience, especially if you used enough of the tech skills that it seems like you had to learn to do those tasks.
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Strangely, I'm not sure how to answer that. Which is why I'm just brainstorming here.
Back in 2001 I was re-starting University and found myself part of the select community of internet cafe operators (by necessity, uni Labs were packed and it wasn't cheap to buy internet time). I was a good customer, studying computer science and willing to work partly just to be online.
Is that a tech job? Most of the time it was about manning front desk and collecting payment, operating the cash register and occasionally showing a grandma how to email.
In time I also learned about networks and got to replacing our tech support in times of crisis. As a side thing, internet cafe operators were the backbone of the local IRC communities, being able to man channel operations day and night - which allowed me to try writing IRC scripts and bots (not my first brush will the programming but the first with a practical use).
One of my colleagues was a very talented girl, the first full time Linux user I met (pure Debian) who went on to design network security systems.
If it took up more than 20+ hours a week for more than a month, then yes, it's work experience, especially if you used enough of the tech skills that it seems like you had to learn to do those tasks.