On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 11:26:27PM -0400, Jose Marquez <jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: > Matthew Hunter wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 04:07:18PM -0400, Jose Marquez > ><jhereg69 at earthlink.net> wrote: > >>John Klein wrote: > >>>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Jot Powers wrote: > >>>@> > Ok, I'll bite... What kind of job has you on a 12 hour night-shift? > >>>@> I'm a Unix Systems Administrator > >>>Knew it. > >>And to think that Sysadmin is something I'm sort of shooting for... > >You do not shoot FOR sysadminning. Sysadminning is something you > >run away from. At speed. > You and John seem to be in agreement. And it came as a surprise to me > that there are sysadmin courses, even though that shouldn't surprise me. There are courses for everything. There are *expensive* courses for everything actually hard. Few of the courses are worth what you pay for. None of the expensive courses are worth what you pay for. A course in system administration will teach you how to do everything you need to do as a system administrator when the systems work. They will not teach you how to fix those systems when they break. Guess which one is the hard part? > Still, right now I'm an unemployed kid with a year of real software > development experience, so if I get a shot at sysadmining, I'll go for > it... *grin* Oh God. > <jinxing class="myself into a job"> Besides, how bad > could it be? </jinxing> If you have to ask... -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp