[ale] somewhat OT: sysadmin must-knows?

[Jerald Sheets]

I found, too, during my search that there were all too many HR drones 
trying to hire people with 15 years Linux, and 4 years of Windows 2003.

You think I'm joking...

:-D

--jms


On Nov 14, 2004, at 11:27 PM, jay wrote:

> 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.
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