[tlug] Whats it like being a sys admin? (This rambles a bit.)

[nmacphee <yeehi@example.com>]

I think at the back of my mind there is a feeling that if I get good at linux 
eventually I might be able to get a job looking after a computer network. 

I don't know much about that kind of job but I imagine that it is well paid, 
that staff are highly in demand, that the work is enjoyable and colleagues 
good people. (I notice that at least one person is working in biotech and 
that would be a very motivating thing to do, I would think.)

However, recently I heard that in silicon valley of all places sys admins are 
having to share a room coz the salaries are down or companies are closing. I 
went on an introductory c programming course. The instructor was incredibly 
intelligent, amazingly qualified with tons of experience and he was saying it 
was difficult to find a job. It must have been if he ended up trying to teach 
me the very most basic things of c.

If it is tough for him to get a job there is no point in me even thinking 
about it. And yet...!

I was looking at the Oracle Small business suite web site:

http://www.oracle.com/online_services/smallbusiness/

(sorry, don't know how to make that appear as a clickable link!)

That looks like a brilliant way of running a business and I am sure many 
companies would like to start doing business like that if they knew about it. 
I might be able to get into the computer business by becoming an oracle small 
business suite trainer, I would surely learn how to use the suite if i was 
teaching people how to do it! Then I could go on to be the information dude 
at a company or something.

And Oracle and Red Hat go together nicely, don't they?!

Please fire off your comments and opinions!
I love to hear them!