[SunRescue] Aprentiship

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:06:20 -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Paul Khoury [mailto:pkhoury3 at earthlink.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:52 PM
>> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
>> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Aprentiship
>> 
>[snip]
>> >
>> >Get a job as tech support with a local ISP; suck up to the 
>> sysadmin. 8-)
>> >
>> >Bill (hey, at least thats kinda how I did it...)
>> 
>> Wish that would work for me.
>> I work for Earthlink doing tech support, and am starting to 
>> hate it, and in such a large company,
>> I'd hafta be there a while before getting close to sys admin.
>
>It's not a matter of getting to be a sysadmin, just a matter of getting
>between 1 1/2 and 3 years of tech support expierence, and them moving to a
>smaller shop where you can move up more quickly.

Not where I am.  I have my suspicions why they might hold me back (which I'd
rather not discuss on-list), plus these damn customers are starting to get to me.

But I still love calls where the guy needs a manual walkthrough, and his idea of
that is he just needs DNS, mail and news servers, and logon info. =)

  I made out like a bandit
>on that front, I got a job at a local U, started as the support guy.  I've
>been there about 1.5 years, and I'm one of the two admins now, and I do ALL
>of my end user support (less than 1/2 my time now) from memory.  I'm also
>getting REALLY good at IP routing and most NT things.  I know, NT is bad,
>but that's what the other admin knew, and he didn't want to learn anything
>else.  I've managed to get 3 production + 1 test linux box in there, but I
>haven't found a really good way to get any SPARCs in, and certainly not
>Solaris, although I may have to read the license agreement and see if we can
>use Solaris8 now.

Suppose it all depends on the application you're trying to run as well.