From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 09:07:40 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DFF0106564A for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:07:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 405178FC0A for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F5E6867; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 09:07:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 132AF9A72; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 11:07:39 +0200 (CEST) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: Petrus References: <4FCFBAD5.1030308@tpg.com.au> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 11:07:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4FCFBAD5.1030308@tpg.com.au> (Petrus's message of "Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:17:25 +1000") Message-ID: <86fwa7sd5x.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:07:40 -0000 Petrus writes: > Although I am primarily doing so for personal, rather than economic > reasons, I did want to ask whether or not it possibly *would* add to a > resume, in the opinions of people here. What you should ask yourself instead is "can it possibly hurt?" > So I wanted to ask; how possible is it still, to become gainfully > employed as a BSD administrator? Once I have the BSD certification, > will it be necessary to concede to reality, and also seek > certification in Linux as well? It is undoubtedly much easier to get a Linux job than a BSD job, unless you are willing to relocate to where the BSD jobs are. > I have long considered that idea, but the problem is that Linux > training generally costs a minimum of $2,000, and I do not have that > type of money available. I got LPIC-1 without any training, after only a few months of using Linux. There is a lot of overlap with FreeBSD and other Unices. The exam itself costs $173 at any Pearson VUE location. The BSDA exam costs $75 and is usually given at F/OSS conferences and user group meetings. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no