good advice. i like this post.<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yaron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tclug@freakzilla.com">tclug@freakzilla.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"><br>On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Jason Hsu wrote:<br><br>> Are there other career paths I should consider? I've heard that I<br>> should consider becoming a systems administrator.<br><br></div>First of all, let me say that it's very cool to see people discovering and<br>
getting into the more 'real' world of computing (:<br><br><br>I've been a systems administrator in one form or another for, oh good god,<br>about 17 years. Sure, I'm a lot more specialised now, and I guess my job<br>
title isn't actually "systems administrator" (it has "analyst" in it,<br>whatever that means).<br><br>There are a lot of things you should know before choosing this career<br>path, but here is the single most important one:<br>
<br><br>THEY WILL GIVE YOU A PAGER AND THEY WILL NOT BE AFRAID TO USE IT.<br><br><br>Take that with all that implies. It's EXTREMELY high pressure, everyone<br>wants everything done NOW, everyone's priorities are way more important<br>
than yours, and if it's at 4am after you've put in 12 hours straight<br>fixing something else, that's just too bad. It's a 24/7 kind of thing.<br><br>Course there are plus sides - if you work at a good place you will be<br>
compensated for all of that in the form of money/cool toys/pizza. And if<br>you thrive on high pressure and challenges, you may well enjoy it.<br><br>But my advice is to avoid the pager-related jobs, or at least have an<br>
exit strategy.<br><br><br><br><br>-Yaron<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br></font>
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