From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 17 7:14:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from riker.skynet.be (riker.skynet.be [195.238.3.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A33037B413 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 07:14:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brad.knowles@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.241.123] ([194.78.241.123]) by riker.skynet.be (8.11.2/8.11.2/Skynet-OUT-2.11) with ESMTP id f5HEER617743 for ; Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:14:27 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from ) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010617073505.B20171@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> References: <20010617063505.A29241@shell.monmouth.com> <20010617073505.B20171@h24-67-61-12.lb.shawcable.net> Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:06:21 +0200 To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: System Tuning/Sysadmins Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 7:35 AM -0600 6/17/01, Chris Moline wrote: > From over here it's I would love to be a unix sysadmin but can't find anyone > who does training and someone who's willing to hire. I would apply to you but > I don't have the experience. I have the experience, but unfortunately no-one in Belgium seems to be hiring SAGE Level IV Senior System Administrators. The country just isn't advanced enough. I've been looking for four months now, and except for one place in Scotland, every place I've talked to and gotten a positive response has been a consulting business, where they were going to focus on using my talents outside the country, because there simply isn't the work here within the country to support me. I recently interviewed at one of the leading (and fastest rising) companies here in Belgium, and it turned out that I was interviewing directly with the CEO himself, and the company has fifteen total employees. They don't have the work to hire another consultant right now (at least, not one at my level), but they're talking about making me an offer as Business Development Manager, because of all the contacts I can bring. We all have our problems. Some of us have problems attracting talent, some of us are talent that hasn't yet had an opportunity to sufficiently grow, and some of us are experienced talent in the cultural backwater of the world where we don't really have much prospect of finding suitable work (maybe Belgium is the third-world country of Europe?). -- Brad Knowles, /* efdtt.c Author: Charles M. Hannum */ /* Represented as 1045 digit prime number by Phil Carmody */ /* Prime as DNS cname chain by Roy Arends and Walter Belgers */ /* */ /* Usage is: cat title-key scrambled.vob | efdtt >clear.vob */ /* where title-key = "153 2 8 105 225" or other similar 5-byte key */ dig decss.friet.org|perl -ne'if(/^x/){s/[x.]//g;print pack(H124,$_)}' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message