Jobs...

[Zbigniew Koziol]

On Thursday 20 July 2006 11:53, Evan Leibovitch wrote:

> Now really -- if someone is skilled at BSD, is AIX or Solaris really
> that big a leap from the sysadmin POV? The tools are a little different
> but the underlying principles, and the troubleshooting skills necessary
> to excel at being a sysadmin on any of these platforms, are simply not
> that different.

Exactly.

If one however attempts to get job from an agency - they usually do not 
understand things and mostly will still ask for experience on this or that 
platform. No chance rather.

The analogy is even much broader. I as a physicist, with PhD, could esiey 
adopt to various engineering works. But still I had a lot of troubles to get 
even any job. Literarely any, because its hard to get a job when they may 
consider one overqualified. 

And, actually, what is important, to perform well at work, is the ability (I 
mean the kinds of works we are talking about) to learn new stuff, to be 
creative, to be able to do research and take control of the work aims, to 
plan properly the work. The good knowledgee of particular computer system, 
this or that programming language, is in fact of lesser importance. 

I am impressed by my present boss. There are no many people around like him. 
He just told me: this is the aim of your work. Do it yourself! Do it in your 
own way. Learn if you need. Study, research. Whatever. He took advantage of 
the fact that I am able to learn and research, to be creative. But he is 
himself creative - thats why. People who are not creative, and most are not, 
could not understand that approach.

zb.
>
> - Evan
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