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Re: career advice sought - any Network Managers here?

7/13/2004 12:58 PM
SpeedRacer	Re: career advice sought - any Network Managers here? If you could not find an American to fill the job then you probably were not paying enough money or simply wanted somebody cheap. 1 - ftr thanks to the stress level and stupid hours, we pay something like double what 'normal' IT people earn. Money is not and never was the issue. I read tons of resumes, spoke to many folks on the phone. I hired the best person for the job, period. 2 - btw - did not even know she was a legal alien until we made her the offer. I don't care where someone is from, what they look like or what they do in their time off. I looked for someone with breadth, someone with a good attitude and the desire to learn. This job is not about what you know, it's about what you can learn to solve that day's problems. 3 - HP/UX, AIX, Solaris are all shrinking and have been for years. Why are HP and IBM so in love with Linux? Solaris is going open source.. people need to read the writing on the wall. It's been there for years. 4 - Programming is perhaps the easiest thing to outsource. In the harsh cold light of day, the architect of the program has the 'value added' job. The programming itself has been reduced towards becoming a commodity, for better or worse. You have to have other skills to complent something like that. My reccomendation is to learn accounting, beleive it or not. If nothing else the FBI will snap you up.. but many businesses need people in IT that understand business. Too many it seems want to bury themselves in tech details and forget where they are and why they are there. My ex boss (now a consultant) is turning away clients left and right bc his skillset is in such demand. He's a great programmer, a great project manager and knows accounting inside out. 5 - capitalism means no one "owes" you or me anything. Not a job, not a career, not stability.. nothing. Just the Opportunity to do whatever we want - with no guarantee that there will be a reasonable economic value placed on our work. We have those choices to make, and those consequences to live with. It's that simple. I could not make a living wage playing guitar, or as a freelance photographer, the restoration shop I worked at went bankrupt leaving me with a newborn and a new mortgage.. sh#t happens. My wife took the 'safe' path, got a degree in Soviet Studies only to have the USSR dissolve 2 years later.. we all have to adapt, change and move on. I couldn't get a 'regular' business position so I took a job as an accountant. When that dept started drying up I moved to IT. I am sure I'll move a few more times before I push up daisies. Each time things change I'll have the choice to become embittered and marginalized.. and hopefully each time I will choose not to do that, and instead adapt and change and move on.

7/13/2004 12:58 PM

SpeedRacer

Re: career advice sought - any Network Managers here?

If you could not find an American to fill the job then you probably were not paying enough money or simply wanted somebody cheap.

1 - ftr thanks to the stress level and stupid hours, we pay something like double what 'normal' IT people earn. Money is not and never was the issue. I read tons of resumes, spoke to many folks on the phone. I hired the best person for the job, period.

2 - btw - did not even know she was a legal alien until we made her the offer. I don't care where someone is from, what they look like or what they do in their time off. I looked for someone with breadth, someone with a good attitude and the desire to learn. This job is not about what you know, it's about what you can learn to solve that day's problems.

3 - HP/UX, AIX, Solaris are all shrinking and have been for years. Why are HP and IBM so in love with Linux? Solaris is going open source.. people need to read the writing on the wall. It's been there for years.

4 - Programming is perhaps the easiest thing to outsource. In the harsh cold light of day, the architect of the program has the 'value added' job. The programming itself has been reduced towards becoming a commodity, for better or worse. You have to have other skills to complent something like that. My reccomendation is to learn accounting, beleive it or not. If nothing else the FBI will snap you up.. but many businesses need people in IT that understand business. Too many it seems want to bury themselves in tech details and forget where they are and why they are there. My ex boss (now a consultant) is turning away clients left and right bc his skillset is in such demand. He's a great programmer, a great project manager and knows accounting inside out.

5 - capitalism means no one "owes" you or me anything. Not a job, not a career, not stability.. nothing. Just the Opportunity to do whatever we want - with no guarantee that there will be a reasonable economic value placed on our work. We have those choices to make, and those consequences to live with. It's that simple. I could not make a living wage playing guitar, or as a freelance photographer, the restoration shop I worked at went bankrupt leaving me with a newborn and a new mortgage.. sh#t happens. My wife took the 'safe' path, got a degree in Soviet Studies only to have the USSR dissolve 2 years later.. we all have to adapt, change and move on. I couldn't get a 'regular' business position so I took a job as an accountant. When that dept started drying up I moved to IT. I am sure I'll move a few more times before I push up daisies. Each time things change I'll have the choice to become embittered and marginalized.. and hopefully each time I will choose not to do that, and instead adapt and change and move on.

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