From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 25 20:29:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uce55.uchaswv.edu (uce55.uchaswv.edu [12.4.161.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AFA37B401 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 20:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cheech.uchaswv.edu (cheech.uchaswv.edu [172.16.0.7]) by uce55.uchaswv.edu (8.9.3 (PHNE_22672)/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA22078 for ; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:30:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 23:33:41 -0400 From: Nathan Mace To: freebsd-questions Subject: in need of a little advice Message-Id: <20011025233341.2b6f6458.mace_nathan@uchaswv.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG next semester will be my last semester of college, i'm graduating with a 4-year degree in Computer Information Systems. my major isn't all that focused on technical stuff, more of a mixture with lots of business, a little programming and a little networking. i've taught myself how to use freebsd/linux over the past 3 years. when i get out of college i would like to get a job as a junior level unix admin. and please don't tell me that i should have been a CS major. by the time i figured out what my major was like, i had already fell in love with the campus in everyway except the bussiness classes they made me take ;) so thats why i didn't transfer to a school that offered CS i have O'reilly books on both samba and apache, and yes i have actually read them. i use samba every day on my computer, and although apache doesn't really do anything on my machine i have fun hacking at it and just seeing what all it can do. seeing as how it looks like i'll have some free time next semester i thought i'd get into some heavy duty scripting/programming. i've had programming classes(c++, and unfortunalty java) but nothing really '*unix-like' i was thinking of either perl learning another OS. what i want to know is...which would do me more good in the job market & the 'real' world. learning another OS, i was thinking openbsd...or getting into perl? or would my time be better spent on something else? i know that the majority of unix admins know either perl or shell scripting, usually both...but what would do me the most good in the sense of getting a job? perl? openbsd? learn more about apache & samba? or learn more about freebsd, which is great and the only bsd i have used to date. or something else entirely? sorry if this is the wrong list, but i didn't think it belonged in the jobs list as i'm not actually looking for a job(yet). if it is the wrong list someone please foward it to the correct one. also, please cc the replies to my email address. thanks for your time nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message