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Network engineering desk · Open to members

Do the job of a network engineer.

A switch, PCs and a ticket. Find the fault and fix it.

Every shift graded part by part, with the evidence behind each score.

Start free on tech support today, or work one full network engineering shift on this desk. Members who choose this desk work it now.

The network engineering bench: the switch's command line showing its interfaces and address table, beside the ticket, the network map and the switch's front panel.
A real switch at its command line, with the ticket and the network beside it.

What you do

The work, the way a network engineering team does it.

For network technician, network administrator and junior network engineer roles.

  • A ticket from someone on the network.
  • Look at the switch and the PCs before you change anything.
  • Fix it, test it from a PC, and hand it over.
A network engineering ticket: who reported it, what they see, the tasks, and the map of the switch and two PCs with their link lights.
Every shift starts from a ticket: a PC that cannot reach anything, or a port to set up.

A shift

How a shift runs.

  1. 01

    The ticket opens

    Someone on the network reports a problem, or a work order asks for a change. The switch and the PCs are live.

  2. 02

    You work the network

    Look at the switch and the PCs, make the change, and test it from a PC.

  3. 03

    You are graded

    On whether it works now, how you got there, what else you changed, and your handover note.

The grading

What you are graded on.

  • Whether the network works when you hand it over
  • Whether you looked before changing anything, and tested after
  • Whether you changed anything you should not have
  • How many steps it took
  • What you did with the AI's suggestion

Each graded shift adds to your Shift Record. The handover note score joins it once a person signs the scoring guide.

Grade report · Ticket · a PC that cannot reach the printerSample

85out of 100 overall

  • Works when handed over100 out of 100
  • Looked first, tested after100 out of 100
  • Nothing else changed100 out of 100
  • Steps taken70 out of 100
  • The AI's suggestion55 out of 100

Every score opens to the note behind it. Disagree with one? Dispute it.

Ways in

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Where it leads

Real network work. A career that pays.

Every office runs on a network someone has to keep working. Here is that work, and where it leads.

Start around

$99,130

a year, Network and computer systems administrator

Grow to

$134,050

a year, Computer network architect

Typical US pay for these jobs, not a promise of what you will earn. Sources: BLS, Network and computer systems administrators, US median, May 2025; BLS, Computer network architects, US median, May 2025.

The work, and the job it matches

  1. Take a ticket: a PC that cannot reach anything, or a port to set up.

    Network technicians work a ticket queue like this every day.

  2. Look at the switch and the PCs before you change anything.

    Finding the fault from evidence is the core skill.

  3. Make the change, test it, and write the handover.

    A change nobody tested, or nobody can follow, is the change that breaks things.

What your record gets you

  • Every graded shift lands on one link you can share.
  • Put it under Projects on your résumé. It is real work, graded the same way every time.
  • With your consent, an employer can open the work behind any score.
  • New cases keep coming, so you stay sharp on the work as it changes.

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