Re: Cary's book

[Gudmundur Josepsson]

Title: RE: Cary's book

The only way you can look bad to the bottom line is if what you charge for your work costs more than the business gains by what you have done/are going to do.  If you spend 40 hours shaving 5 minutes off of a 4 hour batch job that has a 5 hour window to run then you're bad for the bottom line.  Nothing is really gained.  If, in 40 hours, you reduce an online query that is run hundreds or thousands of times each day from 10 to 5 seconds so that the company can process twice as many orders then you're the hero.   If not having OCP is a problem then go get it.  It's easy.  If you don't believe that the Oracle exams stand for anything useful then buy the practice exams from SelfTest or find the braindumps and finish it in a month or two.  No matter how good you are or what you can do, if the other guy is getting the job because of his OCP then you've lost because your marketing has failed.  He knows what the buyer wants and gives it to him.  I'm not so sure that Ingres was an inferior product to Oracle back in the early eighties but Oracle had this guy called Larry Ellison who knew something about marketing.  Is Ingres still alive today?   Gudmundur ----- Original Message ----- From: Thater, William To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 6:54 PM Subject: RE: Cary's book   -----Original Message----- From: April Wells [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 12:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: Cary's book If you can't get through the screeners that say... oh, you have X amount of qualifications... that prices you out of our range in these hard times, how can you market?  Honestly, this is more than just rhetoric... HOW can you market yourself when you look bad to the bottom line? [Shrek]  and how do you market yourself when you don't have a degree or OCP, just a lot of experience.  that's IF you can get through the screeners.  my pet peeve is not being given credit for the hard work i put in to keep up with all the latest changes even is i don't have a degree or OCP.  hell i still have a brain and i know how to use it. -- Bill "Shrek" Thater     ORACLE DBA      "I'm going to work my ticket if I can..." -- Gilwell song                 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The ordinary is a doorway into the extraordinary. Each aspect of the world offers potential entry into nirvana,  into a glimpse of freedom beyond the concerns of self-clinging."               Lama John Makransky