William Herrin [mailto:b...@herrin.us] > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Brandt, Ralph wrote: > >> Generalists are hard to come by these days. > > > > I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly > limited) > > programming skills. > > I wish. For the past three months I've been trying to find a network > engineer with a deep TCP/IP protocol understanding, network security > expertise, some Linux experience, minor programming skill with sockets > and a TS/SCI clearance. > > The clearance is killing me. The two generalists didn't have a > clearance and the cleared applicants are programmers or admins but > never both.
Hey now...the time from zero to TS/SCI has gone from over half a decade to a mere quarter decade. You can totally pay these guys to sit around doing drudge work while their skills atrophy in the interim. Of course, if you need a poly on top, add some more time and stir continually while applying heat. Jamie
