[ale] OT - Job Opportunity in Alpharetta

[Bob Toxen]

Back when I was doing contract programming, if I got multiple offers
with a similar rate, I usually picked the one that added something
to my resume.

About 10 years ago, a large Dutch company offered me good money to
do Unix SysAdmin in Metro Atlanta.  I thought that SysAdmin was beneath
a programmer who could hack the Unix kernel.  I took the job figuring
that the SysAdmin'ing would add to the resume.

The "big shop" experience was good for me.  I got my first taste of
Linux "on the job" and it helped me to transition into doing Security
work, which is just high-powered SysAdmin for the most part.  That kept
me working after the crash of 2000 when NOBODY was working.  And a few
of my clients mostly want basic SysAdmin work too.

Bob

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:01:35AM -0500, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Jim wrote:
> > Has unix support gotten down to commodity job status already?  $9-15 an 
> > hour?  Shit, I can make more than $20 driving a truck.
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> I shouldn't admit this publically.. 
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> But in 2004, I made more welding than I did in IT. 
> It's handy to have other skills. but I now have a very small 
> dead spot in my right eye... should have used much darker filters.
> 
> It was also a year in which I spent time learning new things, 
> mostly PHP/MySQL.. 
> 
> Being FLEXIBLE is important. Aptitude is just as important as 
> knowledge and experience, if not more so. 
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