Joel Rees wrote:
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:J[...] Now.. as to the larger question at hand: <snip> Bottom Line: - I certainly feel comfortable saying that I DO a lot of systems and network administration, - I would feel on very shakey grounds calling myself a (professional) system or network administrator (it's not my day job) - I wouldn't put it on my resume anywhere other than as a couple of bullet points re. "skills" - certainly not as a title I could lay claim toIt sounds like you could pass the LPIC level 2 exam with maybe a few hours of review. Easily. (Maybe you already have.)
Probably.
One question would be whether you would want your potential employer to be maybe planning on saddling you with an unofficial sysadmin role or not.
Hell no (though I have taken on some sharepoint administration of late - purely out of self-defense).
Purely as a personal matter, my current pay-grade is way above that of systems admins in the companies I work with/for (and they make a good living). And do I want to go back to being on call 24/7 - double hell no. :-)
The reason I jumped into this thread is that I tend to think of it as a good thing when people start taking responsibility for their own computing/communicating equipment. Thus it was my intent to encourage the guy who started the original thread to keep thinking of himself as the guy in charge of his hardware.
That's kind of a good point. Personally, I go back and forth on this one. Do I want to control my own equipment, absolutely. Do I want to be administering my family's stuff, not really, but someone has to. Do I want to administer company-provided resources, hell no - I just want it to work. As an engineer, though, I figure anything that requires very much administration is pretty poorly designed - which, unfortunately, refers to the state-of-the-practice for most current technology. Sigh...
Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra