good advice. i like this post. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > On Mon, 13 Dec 2010, Jason Hsu wrote: > > > Are there other career paths I should consider? I've heard that I > > should consider becoming a systems administrator. > > First of all, let me say that it's very cool to see people discovering and > getting into the more 'real' world of computing (: > > > I've been a systems administrator in one form or another for, oh good god, > about 17 years. Sure, I'm a lot more specialised now, and I guess my job > title isn't actually "systems administrator" (it has "analyst" in it, > whatever that means). > > There are a lot of things you should know before choosing this career > path, but here is the single most important one: > > > THEY WILL GIVE YOU A PAGER AND THEY WILL NOT BE AFRAID TO USE IT. > > > Take that with all that implies. It's EXTREMELY high pressure, everyone > wants everything done NOW, everyone's priorities are way more important > than yours, and if it's at 4am after you've put in 12 hours straight > fixing something else, that's just too bad. It's a 24/7 kind of thing. > > Course there are plus sides - if you work at a good place you will be > compensated for all of that in the form of money/cool toys/pizza. And if > you thrive on high pressure and challenges, you may well enjoy it. > > But my advice is to avoid the pager-related jobs, or at least have an > exit strategy. > > > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20101213/40ebac7a/attachment-0001.htm