--- On Sun, 6/6/10, DoOrsOfpErcEpTiON <anup...@gmail.com> wrote: From: DoOrsOfpErcEpTiON <anup...@gmail.com>Subject: [LinuxVadaPav] Career Guidance neededTo: linuxvadapav@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, 6 June, 2010, 5:58 PM
Hi All, I need some guidance on a career choice. I am mainly into Linux Systems Engineering with daily activity on RH-based system, NFS, Apache, tomcat, Mail - qmail and so on, which are prime roles for an internet domain company. I really love the profile I am working on. key roles: - have a team that monitors our servers and informs in case of alerts - implementation of online projects based on needs on development team - freedom of R&D on various opensource application meeting our needs. Which usually includes basics such as apache, solr, dfs etc.. Recently, I came across an opening with a firm that mainly is an e-commerce site. Its only and prime project is a web-based-shopping portal. I have been told that it will be a great learning experience (by its CTO). I need to be sure if this role helps : - ATG ecommerce.. administration (but i am not sure of the role, exactly). Came across a discussion on Nabble where many were considering ATG certification - No root access to any of their servers (note that they have fewer server than my current employer) - Implementation and maintaining servers are outsourced. - I was told that current admins there are involved in proactive monitoring. No idea what that means exactly & what all they monitor. Now the catch.. The offer is tempting for a jump. I believe that my current employer is not appraising my efforts, as a result my remuneration has been stagnant since 2 years! I am confused on whether or not to accept this opening. My doubts are that I may become more of a monitoring admin than the one who is involved in R&D and implementation. Secondly, this may lead me to ATG.. am I going to lose out on Linux skills? I need help.. suggestions.. I am confused as I have a dead-lock of thoughts in my head! At one side my family is forcing me in to taking it for the increment it is offering. On other side, my friend who are/were Linux admins think that I should wait for the right one. Kindly help ! Thanks! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed Dear Anup, It seems you are getting good exposure in your current company, only issue with the package. Secondly, you are confused about the role in other company, which might be only monitoring the server. Here I would like to share my personal experience. I was in Kingdom of Bahrain, where customer puts condition to the outsorced companies to provide experienced and certified engineers. To get the project, the company hires well qualified, for example, for network administration CCIE qualified engineers and pay them high salary. But once the experienced and techno-hungry engineer(s) joines the company, he/they quits or run away with 2-3 months, cause he/they come to know that there is nothing to do. For month and month they would have to sit idle, no technical growth although getting 3 times more salary.The bad thing about this is the engineers I have seen were belongs to reputed MNC, just for salary growth, they played with their career. You know if you have job is your hand you can negotiate like anything. The good companies always look into your current profiles. IT Industry is very big and you might get similar offer with current job profile. If you want to grow with technology, and would like to perform the technical tasks as engineer then I would suggest you to identify your needs (money) and goals (career) and then take the decision. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
