[ale] somewhat OT: sysadmin must-knows?

[jay]

I just looked at that SAGE link, and that was *REALLY* reassuring.  With all 
the AIX and VMS and other stuff being mentioned, I was getting scared I was 
out of my depth totally.  

The top 2-3 descriptions on the SAGE site are exactly what I'm working with 
right now...I have a small amount of sysadmin experience, great interpersonal 
skills and communication (I AM, after all, a Corporate Communications major) 
and I know desktop/user type systems well.  What's lacking for me at the 
moment is experience and time working with large, enterprise server systems 
and the associated software. 

Plus, I'm extremely motivated to move ahead, so I'll learn stuff as fast as is 
humanly possible, work extra hours, etc.  :-)

Thanks Jerald, your response gave me a little hope that places do hire guys 
that aren't already *NIX gurus with ten years of AIX/VMS/Solaris experience. 
Whew!

-Jay

> I guess my whole thing is people who look for "personalized" criteria.
> When I look for an admin, I go straight to the SAGE job descriptions
> page, and hire according to what I'm looking for in skill level from
> there.
>
> (the URL is http://www.sage.org/pubs/8_jobs/core.mm)
>

> Jerald Sheets
> Sr. UNIX Systems Administrator
> Datatrac, Inc.