From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 15 12:21:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA06486 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:21:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from c-serv1.sopris.net (c-serv1.sopris.net [209.38.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06281 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:19:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alex@comsys.com) From: alex@comsys.com Received: from alexhupp.comsys.com (170-223-49.ipt.aol.com [152.170.223.49]) by c-serv1.sopris.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA08510; Thu, 15 Jan 1998 13:17:55 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <34BE6EE1.52C4@comsys.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 12:17:37 -0800 Reply-To: alex@comsys.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Koum CC: MegaFred , Michael Slater , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Job Market for Sys Admins References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I feel myself being sucked into this... I think he's right. There is so much more that California has to offer than this area... really - there is no comparison. If you anyone is considering a move to the PNW, save yourself, don't do it! California is where you want to be. Jan Koum wrote: > > C'mon, who would really want to work for Intel or MS, or even HP? > Here we have SGI, Cisco, Sun, Netscape, Yahoo! and other "cool" companies. > As for contracting out? I don't think I'd want to leave Silicon > Valley.. plus, I still have 2 more years of college *sigh* > > -- yan > > On Thu, 15 Jan 1998, MegaFred wrote: > > >On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Jan Koum wrote: > >> Don't know about Portland/Seattle, but there is sure a huge market > >> in San Francisco Bay Area (aka Silicon Valley). And while it is hard to > >> find a part time job (*sigh* darn school), there are a lot of full time > >> jobs here all the time. After all, it is not called Silicon Valley for > >> nothing. :) > > > >Ah, but the Silicon Forest (Portland / Seattle) is home to Intel, HP, and > >Microsoft. Go North my friend, and a Job will be waiting! If anything, > >there's alot of government jobs up here looking for AS/400 (y2k) > >conversions, and alot of sysadmin duties for AIX servers. Other then > >that, just start your own business as FreeBSD consultant... Heck, if > >you're good enough, we might even contract out to you. :) > > > >Joe > >Triax Internet Services > >Portland, OR > > > >