Date: Wed, 8 Jul 1998 18:27:40 -0400 (EDT) From: dave@gregory.dyn.ml.org To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: is sysadmin'ing a lucrative career? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980708171557.6619A-100000@gregory.dyn.ml.org>
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Hi, It sure is nice to have such a great brain-pool to tap into... I have a few questions about careers that maybe some of you professional folks can answer. I just graduated with my BS in computer information systems, and I am currently seeking employment. I am mainly looking at UNIX jobs like sysadmin or programming in a UNIX environment. So far my best offer seems to be a sys-admin/programmer position with a medium-size company who is transferring all of their web-based services from a provider to an in-house box. I find this opportunity appealing mainly because I like the company (important to me), and I feel like the experience will take me in the direction I want to go, i.e. UNIX, sysadmin, internet. The potential downfall as I see it is that I don't think I will necessarily get as much programming experience as I would like (although I could be wrong). I'm thinking that system administration skills are valuable, but I'm worried that they will only take me so far without serious programming (or maybe database) experience to go along with it. Any of you seasoned professional have any advice for me concerning what I should try to learn/accomplish over the next two years? Should I seek certifications (which ones)? Should I consider a job with more programming? What other skill sets should I try to acquire? (Please don't say Microsoft Backoffice ;) ). Any comments will be greatly appreciated, and please feel free to read between the lines and rant about any kind of tangential topic that comes to mind (future of computing, UNIX, internet, whatever), because I'm sure it will contiribute to my knowledge. Thanks, Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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