[SunHELP] More job questions and a SIMS question

[Jarrett Carver]

"with" the government or "for" the government? There is a big difference. It 
is true that without a degree a good paying job with the Gov't will be hard 
to find, even with a degree it will be hard (not impossible) to find a Gov't 
job that pays comparable to commercial companies for the same duties.

Now, there is always the wonderful world of contracting. There are a ton of 
companies that have long term stable contracts. So it is not 6 months here, 
a year there, etc.. The pay is usually better, and the lack of a degree is 
not as prohibiting. ( still you will see difference in pay betweeen with & 
without a degree ). Many companies like GTE, Raytheon, Logicon, etc... have 
a Gov't services division that handles Gov't contracts.

Downside, a lot of these contracts require security clearances which can 
cost a company over $50,000 per employee and can take over year to aquire 
depending on the level. I am sure there are contracts out there that don't 
require a clearance, I am just most familiar with DoD contracts that do.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Ben Ricker <bricker at wellinx.com>
Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] More job questions and a SIMS question
Date: 05 Apr 2001 10:18:00 -0500

On 04 Apr 2001 17:44:30 -0700, Paul Khoury wrote:
 > More job questions - I would like to get something with government, 
especially
 > where I could further my knowledge of Solaris, but everywhere I go
 > seems to require a college degree.  I'm only 21 and still in college.
 > Does anyone here have any other suggestions?

Get the degree. 99% of places require it or they will not pay you as
much.

 > I'd like to start learning more about MX records and get my mail server 
running here.
 > I already have the sendmail book, and figuring that BIND was a piece of 
cake, sendmail
 > can't be too difficult.

MX records are related to DSN and BIND, not sendmail. 'MX' stands for
'mail exchanger' I believe. It tells DNS that @foo.com go to host
mail.foo.com.

Ben Ricker
System Administrator
US-Rx, Inc.

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