BTW, here is one of those jobs - Finance, NYC
http://regionalhelpwanted.com/Search/detail.cfm?SN=204&ID=30173705&jexp=3
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin <
atsaloli.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
>US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
>throughout this document.
>
> Can anybody shed light on what it takes to get to
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning
wrote:
> Example of the "Master of all trades" that I have been seeing, since the
> economic down turn...
>
> --
> Location: San Mateo, CA
> Area Code: 650
> Tax Term: CON_HIRE_CORP CON_HIRE_IND CON_HIRE_
On May 6, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> Not me. I'm probably a year or two away from being able to comfortably
> uproot myself to go overseas. I have looked a little bit at teaching
> English in Japan. It is still an idea, particularly if I buy a boat to
> travel on and live aboa
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Pam Ochs wrote:
> Getting back to the name question; it would be much easier to call
> ourselves something else than to change the common perception of
> "system administrator".
Thai is a good thought. Any ideas on what titles I should be looking at?
> p.s. anyone know of an
On Thu, 6 May 2010, Jesse Trucks wrote:
[lots of interesting stuff deleted]
> That all being said, the job market is a rude and scary place right now,
> so sometimes we can't vote how we like when we like.
It certainly is. Sometimes I think I should focus on maximizing my income
and not worry
Getting back to the name question; it would be much easier to call
ourselves something else than to change the common perception of
"system administrator".
-Pam
p.s. anyone know of any overseas openings? :)
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To follow on from what Jesse said: when I'm being interviewed by a
technical person who will be doing work similar to mine, I insist on
hearing about an area where the person is currently or was recently
frustrated (and if they try to tell me about a purely technical problem
they can't figure o
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:35:21AM -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
>
> I keep hearing about these mythical places that are dedicated to
> excellence, I just never seem to find any of them.
I've worked in places mostly as you've described in the removed part of
your post.
My current job is extremely
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 01:11:47PM -0500, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010, Trey Harris wrote:
>
> > c) Be "senior", meaning "ten years minimum of hard and accomplished
> > technical
> > work".
> >
> > d) Be able to do more than just keyboard work. Be able to take a project
> > from c
Dan Foster writes:
> Net equation? Worth it to pay someone a lot to take the risks.
I spent some time looking into this a few years back... seeing if I could
trade a little risk for a little money. I found plenty of six figure
cable monkey gigs in Iraq, but I was making six figures here where
unix_fan wrote:
> 5. Travel, part 3 - danger bonus: If work involves travel to a State
> Department declared combat zone, there are typically significant
> bonuses applied. Hint: the list is small - don't assume that car
> bombs, armed conflict, or anti-American demonstrations every Friday
> mean t
Hot Diggety! unix_fan was rumored to have written:
> In a large diverse company, there may be other such hard to fill jobs,
> like freezing your butt off at a research station in Antarctica or
> acceptance tests in the bowels of the Amazon.
Hey, I'd like to know who I'd have to bribe (or sleep wi
On Wed, 5 May 2010, Simon Lyall wrote:
> The impression I get is that for large organisations you get "platforms"
> run by smaller teams. I would hope there aren't many places where "root"
> access to a machine is given by hundreds of people.
I've spent too much time in "services" organizations a
On Wed, 5 May 2010, John Jasen wrote:
> Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think the age of the generalist systems
> administrator is pretty much dead, at least in organizations of
> sufficient size or complexity.
The impression I get is that for large organisations you get "platforms"
run by small
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Tracy Reed wrote:
> How far did/does "generalist" go? Occasionally my boss laments that
> I'm not a Windows guy. I'm pretty much Linux/Unix only. I couldn't
> help with most Windows problems if I wanted to. Is the generalist
> sysadmin supposed to know all OSs? Perhaps I too ha
(man, yahoo email is sucking lately ... I have to manually reformat )
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state, in
> "Statistical Exclusions":
>The few respondents who cited salaries greater than US$200,000 are
> excluded
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 12:00:17AM -0400, John Jasen spake thusly:
> Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think the age of the generalist systems
> administrator is pretty much dead, at least in organizations of
> sufficient size or complexity.
How far did/does "generalist" go? Occasionally my boss la
Maybe I'm in the minority, but I think the age of the generalist systems
administrator is pretty much dead, at least in organizations of
sufficient size or complexity.
Of course, having degraded from a generalist systems admin to a security
admin might have biased that opinion.
Tracy Reed wrote:
On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 03:40:09PM -0400, Robert Brockway spake thusly:
> Compare system administrator and network administrator. As far as I'm
> concerned any senior sysadmin better be a networking guru but I've found
> quite a wide variety of opinions on this topic, even among sysadmins.
They
On May 4, 2010, at 3:40 PM, Robert Brockway wrote:
>
> I only noticed this fairly recently although I suspect it has been brewing
> for a while. What is now called a "technical architect" I might call a
> SAGE Level IV sysadmin.
Agreed. Sysadmin only goes so high, in some companies.
> C
I agree about job descriptions not being what the job entails and that
is where organizations like LOPSA have to be on the forefront to have
these descriptions to keep the profession (not job) from becoming
diluted. In my prior life as a Maintenance Machinist with the US Mint I
watched how the Gove
> This has been discussed on SAGE-AU recently. I'm not quite sure what
do
> to about - try to get the message out there and reclaim the term
sysadmin
> or accept that it now has a narrow meaning and find another term.
I would say this is where we want to go - and what we as LOPSA members
should
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Doug Hughes wrote:
> I'm sorry (or happy?) but you're wrong. Seems like you're in a bad
> position. There are others available.
It seems to me that many positions that require more than just technical
work now carry titles other than sysadmin. I think there is a real
confli
Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On Tue, 4 May 2010, Trey Harris wrote:
>
>
>> c) Be "senior", meaning "ten years minimum of hard and accomplished
>> technical
>> work".
>>
>> d) Be able to do more than just keyboard work. Be able to take a project
>> from conception to completion and not blink when t
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Matt Lawrence wrote:
> It has been my observation that this sort of advancement is no longer
> available to systems administrators. Sysadmin work is now considered low
> level technical work and any sort of project management is now done by
> technically illiterate
In a message dated Tue, 4 May 2010, Aleksey Tsalolikhin writes:
Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state,
in "Statistical Exclusions":
The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
throughou
On Tue, 4 May 2010, Trey Harris wrote:
> c) Be "senior", meaning "ten years minimum of hard and accomplished technical
> work".
>
> d) Be able to do more than just keyboard work. Be able to take a project
> from conception to completion and not blink when the job requires project
> management,
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
wrote:
> Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state,
> in "Statistical Exclusions":
>
> The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
> US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
> thro
Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote:
> Hi. The SAGE Sysadmin Salary Survey reports for 2006 and 2005 state,
> in "Statistical Exclusions":
>
> The few respondents who cited salaries greater than
> US$200,000 are excluded from most of the analyses
> throughout this document.
>
> Can a
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