[ale] Interesting job on the ale-jobs list

[Boris Borisov]

In general the job postings for Linux/other admin lately require to be able
to build a space ship and then go to the moon and back. That how many skill
are described.



On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:33 PM, leam hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since we occasionally talk about new people coming into the sysadmin
> field, and as LOPSA is having a discussion on why people might join
> the org, I found some good value in the Steel Pivot job that just hit
> the ale-jobs list.
>
> What I tend to do is look at jobs that sound interesting and see how
> many of those technologies I'm familiar with and how many of the
> skills I have. The gaps can become a good road map for the next few
> months.
>
> If I were just coming into the field or looking for a new job, the
> next hour or so would be research, followed by an hour of resume
> updating. If there was a large gap I could easily spend the next while
> spinning up a few VMs to try things out and blow them up.
>
> That's one way to become a system administrator. I don't think you can
> learn it in college: black magic is frowned upon and dumb luck doesn't
> come in a book.
>
> Leam
>
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