College System Administrator. Questions about the features of working in an educational institution?

Question

System administration

Good day.
I want to start with a little history. 7 years ago I graduated from an average college where I know many teachers. In college there were 2 forever empty computer labs, where only Word is launched, all computers are old, and teachers had computers in 50% of cases, and also old ones.
And now, after 7 years, and after graduating from the university, I am sitting without a job. And then I was offered to get a job as an "administrator" in this college, for 12k, at least for a while.
According to the description, there are several requirements, secondary education (any direction), ensuring uninterrupted operation, safe and efficient operation, maintenance and repair of computer equipment (including refilling cartridges, replacing and repairing failed parts, setting up software)
It’s just that I myself am a humanist, and I have initial knowledge in this matter, so to speak, although I have been fiddling with a computer since childhood (1995). But I’m chasing thoughts a little, they say, I won’t manage it, suddenly they will ask me to do something that I haven’t encountered yet (lay a network, transfer all PeKa from Windows to Linux, etc.)
The questions are: -
What are the features of the work of a system administrator in college (or vocational school, school)? Has anyone worked or is working in this position?
How long is the average working day?
What do you really have to do during the day/week? (the description is often deceptive, and few employers will immediately tell the truth so as not to frighten off the candidate)
- What are the pitfalls?
if anyone can give a detailed answer, or describe their work experience, life hacks, or something else, I will be grateful

Answer 1

What are the features of the work of a system administrator in a college (or vocational school, school)? Has anyone worked or is working in this position?

The stupidity of all (both superiors, and subordinates, and "end users") who surrounds you. Phenomenal stupidity.
It is almost impossible to get financing for the purchase of anything other than cartridges and stationery.
The hard drive died, the whole story is to order a new one. Often you will have to take a used one or gut mammoths in search of spare parts.
Get ready for dying power supplies (PSUs) and hard drives. This is 75% of what you will break from hardware. Another 10% for coolers and overheating, 5% for swollen motherboard capacitors and broken wires. 5% on keyboards and mice. The rest is a statistical error.
Extremely wide. If we get lucky. Ideally, this will be the minimum for you. So, on the little things, put WhatsApp on your phone, then advise which TV to buy. But at worst ... from simple help in paperwork ("can you tell me how to increase the line spacing in Word?") to translation from English (German, Spanish, Japanese) and balance sheet information. In rare cases, you will also need to draw in Photoshop, create websites in HTML and mount videos.
How do you agree. From a couple of hours 1-2 times a week to full time.
Ask questions.

Answer 2

School school strife. In general, working in state institutions is not a grateful thing (but this is a different holivar), so if money is not critical, I would look for something else. Moreover, 12 thousand is nothing at all, but most likely you will do "everything" there, from the word at all. You will be on the hook so to speak.
For such an amount, you need to agree to appear there 1-2 times a week for a couple of hours, solve accumulated issues, refill cartridges and leave.
I had a friend who worked part-time at school. those. he sat at work from 8 to 17 and sat at school (or after work he would come in to do something or on the weekends). Well, just consulted during the day on the phone.
And there was an acquaintance who could not agree on a remote location and was an enikeem there (both Shvets, and a reaper, and a gambler on the pipe). Did everything. And he had a chief accountant who, in all seriousness, said: "Since the chair is a computer one, then a computer specialist should repair it."
If you are a humanist and do not plan to develop in the direction of IT, then you have nothing to do there, especially for 12 thousand. If you want to retrain, then as a start and a set of experience, it will do.