[SunRescue] Aprentiship

[Kurt Huhn]

Boston is really good right now.  If you're willing to do contract work you
can get a job within a week's time - a little longer if you want to choose
the company carefully.  Salaries are going up here too, they're almost on
par with the SF Bay area and Silicon Valley - almost.  Check out Monster.com
and register your resume with interest in Boston - you'll get about 5 calls
a day for an entire Month.  Another site to look at is Dice.com - register
there too and you'l get about a dozen calls a day.

YMMV of course, but that's what is happening with me right now in the Boston
area.  I live in RI, and don't want to commute all the way to Boston every
morning so my choices are limited to SE Mass, RI, and Eastern CT - If you
want to work in Boston you should be able to take your pick of company to
work for.

Kurt


>> -----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.  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.  If you spend a bunch of time making yourself an expert
>(I've got three machines sitting in front of me that I'm actively working
>on) in anything and everything, you can sell yourself into a good job.
>Anybody know how the Boston area is for NT/Unix admins (especially people
>who know how to integrate the two)?  I loved it there, and I want to move
>back.
> Greg
>
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