My career in Unix system administration is floundering. I need career advice, O Group Mind.
Please help me plan
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My career in Unix system administration is floundering. I need career advice, O Group Mind.
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The school thing sounds like “Go Full time and get another degree”, which I don’t think will achieve what you want.
Moving to a new city sounds too much like running from your problems.
Learning a new skill (Oracle, Woodcarving?) seems to be the way to go.
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Rotting away in academia works for me! Also, office supplies are copious, and of a different variety.
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don’t be a dba.
dba’s, man. seriously.
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Water towers are a little prosaic for this. I think clock towers are iconic though.
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DBAs get a bad rep, because most of them are retards. A *good* DBA is a beautiful thing. They also get paid pretty well.
Oracle seems to be a real pain in the ass, though, so potentially yeah on the bitter angle with that. Just talk to mike about it sometime and watch him stew in his own juices.
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I’d assume bitter because it’s boring. Once you’ve redesigned all of the company’s databases, where’s the room for creativity?
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Well, that’s kind of the case with corporate everything..
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SURFACE-TO-AIRWAIDAMINNITLEMMETHINK….
Get out of town, play for bit with people who understand what this stuff is for:
http://www.apnic.net/info/jobs/sys.html
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Random new city sounds like a bad idea. Unless it’s Vancouver, which is not too far from California, and you have friends here.
I vote for exciting new career. Does it have to be Oracle though?
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