u/Arbor___Vitae

Hi folks,

Apparently this isn't an uncommon issue, but I've received my 11 Pro XL today, purchased through Google Store and took the $300 instant discount + $1040 in credits over 24mo for Fi activation. I went to sign up to port to Fi, and all I'm getting is the message that sign up is unavailable. But, if I switch to a different Google account, I can get around it.

The part I can't determine from reading old posts is if the service has to be activated on the same Google account that purchased the phone in order for those credits to be applied and to not be charged the $300 for 'not activating with Fi' if I set up service with my second account.

Also, at what point do I decide just to fork over the extra $300 to dodge the apparently abysmal support (that keeps asking me to update the Google Fi app to an update that's not available, and doesn't seem to follow that I've tried on a total of three browsers between the phone and my desktop)?

Hi folks, I hope this is an appropriate sub to post this in.

I'm currently a Medical Lab Scientist in a small hospital, very early in my career, and I've been approached by my department's leadership asking if I'd be interested in moving into an informatics(?) role because I have a natural intrigue for digging through menus in our analyzers to find the issues that everyone else wishes were fixed, but they won't look for, as well as some slightly above basic PC troubleshooting and general knowledge, which is still more than my coworkers.

I'm honestly not really sure if they're using the right term, but essentially what they're looking for is someone on-site that can manage our EHR (Oracle Cerner) and more specifically the Laboratory Information System component. Right now, we're relying on the LIS team at our parent hospital, and it's already caused several problems just in the year and a half that I've been at this hospital resulting in downtime that slows down our work and delays patient care (so admin-level is of course breathing down the department's neck but doesn't want to accept the lack of on-site support as part of the issue, considering the message of an issue currently has to be fed through the IT Helpdesk, to IT management, to the LIS team).

My concern is that I have no formal IT or CS training, so am I going to be blown out of the water when I'm sent to our parent hospital to get some hands-on training? Are there resources I can obtain at low cost, or that I should ask the hospital to obtain for me, prior to this? Should I pursue the CompTIA certifications?

Help me out here, I'm used to handling blood and other body fluids, and making judgments on whether a result makes sense based on why a patient is in the building.. I don't even know what I don't know about this, but I don't want to miss the opportunity to open as many doors for my career as I can this early on.

Thanks so much!