Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 06 Jan 2003 4:50 am, Chuck Burns wrote:
Unless you have lots of experience.. that means PROFESSIONAL
experience.. meaning you are a already a system admin of some other
company.
Isn't that a catch22?
It's semantic ambiguity. Does Little experience in the orginal
question mean little experience as a sysadmin or little experience in
working with Linux/Unix systems? In the latter case, you can probably
get a job doing the donkey work, like adding user accounts or names and
IP numbers of machines.
With small companies who are setting up a local network, you might be
able to talk yourself into an overall sysadmin/technician/trainer job.
In a way, this is what I do - I'm actually an English teacher, but I run
our department's computers simply by virtue of being the alpha geek. It
started with fixing Windows crashes, now I run a Linux FTP/samba server
and a website, and have special priveleges like being able to name all
the computers after characters in The Matrix. I could never hope to be a
university sysadmin, though - they have guys with PhDs to do that sort
of thing.
I'm not an IT professional and don't live in America, so don't take my
words very seriously, though.
Sir Robin
--
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doing it.
- Linus Torvalds
Robin Turner
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Bilkent University
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Turkey
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