Aleksandar Ivanisevic wrote: > Sometimes I think that the ultimate praise for a sysadmin must be when > he gets fired because everything works and the management thinks he is > redundant :)
That's actually how I became a Unix Sysadmin. ;-) In the late 90's, when it wasn't so hard to get a job, the IT Manager (who was a business manager and not a computer person) at this unnamed place was so bad that all the IT staff quit en masse (they all found new jobs easily). People who were not familiar with the IT systems then had to hire new staff. I was hired as a network specialist, someone else was hired as a Windows admin, and so on. It was six months before they had us hired and in place, and they didn't know that most of their operating systems were Unix (both Digital and Sun). The systems just kept running without any admin. Then they finally hired a Manager who knew something. At that point, we all looked around and said, gee, we don't have anyone who knows Unix. Who wants to go to training? They paid for me to go to 7 week long courses over the span of 2 years. Cool. Fun. I got through about 3 of them before anything critical came up that really tested me on our Unix systems. -- --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[email protected]> --------------- Erdös 4 _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
