[ale] OT: How many Linux guys are looking for work in ATL?

Damon Chesser damon at damtek.com
Thu Jul 26 16:06:51 EDT 2012


On 07/26/2012 03:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:20 -0400, leam hall wrote:
>> Here's what I've done in my career, besides the "10 vital tips" blog I wrote.
>>
>> 1. Take the SAGE sysadmin level guidelines and work my way up from the
>> bottom. Do everything, even if you don't need it at home.
>>
>> 2. Look at what skills are requested for the jobs I want. Do those
>> things and make sure they are highlighted on my resume.
>>
>> 3. Volunteer time in Open Source projects for things I enjoy and want
>> to do for pay.
> Does it count having your name and E-Mail address in the Linux Kernel
> source tree MAINTAINERS file?

Gee, I once was credited with finding a bug and testing the fix, in the 
kernel commented out lines.
>
>> Things they always ask for:
>> Shell scripting, Apache/Tomcat support, some sort of database support
>> (Oracle/MySQL), networking expertise, DNS, e-mail, NFS/volume
>> management, system configuring and monitoring (Nagios).
>>
>> Hope that helps.
>>
>> Leam
>>
>> -- 
>> Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>
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