-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Knowles Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 5:38 PM To: Merle Watts; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT - home work assignment
" I'm titled a "Network Operations Coordinator" which is HR talk for "Network Administrator/System Administrator, but if we put administrator in his title we have to pay him more." " That's funny how they come up with clever terms in HR, while my duties are Network/System admin I am called the Lead Information Technology Technician, as you stated chris, if they put administrator in my title then they worry they have to pay more. " I'm sort of a many hat wearing computer guy. I admin several systems, and control great chunks of network too. " I control everything. " Some of the people out there are sys admins that are just sys admins and some are net admins that are just net admins, but I think the bigger category are those that do a little of (or a lot of) both. " In my reply to Merle I told him from my experience most companies have their techs do both. That's one of the reasons why work calls all of our techs, Information Technology Technicians, we deal with everything. In our company we have me who is the lead technician and we have a Chief of Information Technology who doesn't do a thing but sit in his office and drink coffee and surf the web, he may go to a meeting and he is supposed to make all IT decisions but he usually leaves it up to me to decide whats best, any purchases I have to get him to sign for and he deals with licensing issues. One thing I do like about him is that he does trust my judgement and if I tell him we need something we usually get it. On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 17:24, Merle Watts wrote: > My son is going to UNCC and has a paper he has to write. He is supposed to interview network admin type people and write a report directed at people looking at system administration as a career. > > Just wondering if anyone could answer a couple of his questions. > He doesn't know of any administrators that he can ask. > > Onlly has 2 that he has thought of. > > 1. What do you do an a daily basis? > > 2. Whats the difference between a network administrator and a system administrator. > > Any other questions would be helpful. > > > Thanks > > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
