From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Apr 4 12: 0:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAA0737B41A for ; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 12:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish ([10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g34K0Gr71004; Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:00:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <016301c1dc13$56f439a0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Rick Hamell" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Anti-Unix Site Runs Unix Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 22:00:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 Rick writes: > In your opinion... I don't know that years of technical support looks very flattering on a résumé, although I ended up in nearly similar circumstances myself, simply because decent jobs for software engineers are scarce in France. > Luckily I'm with a company that pays it's help > desk people VERY well. That won't help if you are laid off. > Since we're also the 13th largest buisness > in the world, I have pleanty of oppurtunities. Kind of like Arthur Andersen. > Not knowing what that next phone call is going > to be keeps me going and gives me a challenge > to look forward too. That might indeed be motivating, IF you have the tools to actually resolve the problems that come in. But many technical support organizations don't have that; it costs money, and few companies want to spend anything more than absolutely necessary on technical support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message