Those are probably the only dotComs that are worth a damn.
I do like the point
spewn makes in his/her post. I stuck with my current employer through out the entire boom, running on year 7 next month. Came to them when the whole thing started to go silly as worthless company after another with only a kewl web page to show for the investment started to go up left and right here in CA. After reading some of these posts, my field of education doesn’t even hold a candle to
AIXSPadmin or
Cajun, I just settled for a two year degree, and none of it ever involved Unix in any fashion. Yea, I had to program, found it simple, but didn’t like it to much. Mostly got frustrated because I could not afford any type of computer while I was in school, so I had to use class mates systems or school systems for my homework. . Found out at the end of half my classes that most of the students just copied my programs. So more than half of my graduating class for the two year program didn’t know what an IF THEN statement would do in a program, let alone how to rewrite an EXE file to a COM file. Yet they still got higher paying jobs at those dotJokes. I liked networking, but didn’t want to be stuck in a cubicle or work with just the same network day in and day out. I wanted to move around with having to do contract work or look for a job all the time. So after just a couple of bounces I found were I am at now. Mostly did work for law firms, but had on occasion did work for some of those dotCons. I annoyed the hell out of me to hear these guys boast about how high they pay checks were and how little work they actually did. I would end up training them on how to administer their server, and still return to fix every little issue that would come up. I just had to bite my tong, cause the less they did, the more work I got, the better my company did. It just amazed me at how little these people knew about their network and how it interfaced with the Internet. Some even thought a firewall would be a bad thing because when ever they set one up, it would block all web traffic. I wanted to go work for one of those companies and make that kick but salary and get that kick butt stock option package. But was just unsure of a real future in it.
Sigh
Thank fully I never left for the illusion of money. I still have a decently paying job doing exactly what I like to do. Designing, building, and maintaining various networks for various companies. Just sucks that I am forced to get certifications, because to the consulting world, certifications are important marketing tools, and they bring partnership perks from the various software publishers.
Provogeek
Saving the world, one network at a time
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