On Tue, 30 Aug 2010, Luke S Crawford wrote: > Adam Moskowitz <[email protected]> writes: >> "Tinkerer Check: What is Your Home Network Like?" Despite later saying >> claiming to not discount candidates who aren't netadmins in their own >> homes, this question clearly does exactly that. There are plenty of good >> candidates out there who leave their job at the office, run the most >> simple and basic network at home, and who put their "enthusiasm and >> curiosity" into non-technical things outside of work. > > yes, but if I hire a guy who thinks about these problems on his own > time, and I feed him (or her) problems that are more interesting that > what they have at home, I get the benifit of his 'time in the shower' > I mean, the 'top idea in your head'[1] is generally thought to > be something that you think about in the background. something you > come up with solutions for in the shower.
One way I look at things is that network and System administration is still a rapidly evolving field. Somebody who only does it 9-5 is going to be concentrating on the problems in front of them and not keeping up with how the field is evolving. Things like config management, Cloud computing and NoSQL have come from nowhere to be major parts of the field over the last ~5 years. At the same time the majority of admins won't have daily contact with all 3. I guess that some people might way that they could learn about them when required but leaving off looking at new technology until you explicitly require doing it (due to problem, new requirements or platform replacement say) doesn't strike me as ideal -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
