From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 1 13: 1:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 413C437B403 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.46.72]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA379A; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:08:05 -0700 Message-ID: <3B68600F.34D84921@acuson.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 13:01:19 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ML Duke Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix skills at work References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ML Duke wrote: > Not much to say, really. It's work. Everyday, what weren't broken > gets upgraded and broken. Philosophically, they're paying me a > large amount of money to accomplish nothing beneficial in the long > run. I've heard of some IT departments that work this way, but many do not. Most IT departments don't want to operate under an upgrade-fix-upgrade-fix cycle because it's a complete waste of time. But sometimes they don't have a choice. Sometimes there is a director or vice president in the way. When the guy signing the paycheck says he wants to implement the solution he saw in a PC Magazine advert, your choices are limited. > But I've come to understand that this is the way most of our > educated professionals think. There is a period of time just after formal academic education when the "educated professional" thinks they know it all (sort of like teenagers). Give them a year or two and reality will complete their education. Beware those that are always taking extension and/or graduate classes but never spend any time in the trenches. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message