[142815] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Gauvin)
Wed Jul 13 20:11:54 2011
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From: Mark Gauvin <MGauvin@dryden.ca>
To: Scott Berkman <scott@sberkman.net>, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:09:52 -0500
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Get an executive MBA then you can dictate to us lowly techs what technology=
we will use without ever having to know why. Plus you will earn 10x the $$=
$ by the time you are 30 without having to recertify every couple years.
________________________________________
From: Scott Berkman [scott@sberkman.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 7:01 PM
To: Saku Ytti
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: OT: Given what you know now, if you were 21 again...
Saku nailed it. Learn the networking basics and underlying concepts
(OSI!), everything else is an "application" that runs on that, and can
be picked up pretty easily if you understand what it depends on.
Wireshark (or your favorite capture tool) is your friend.
That said, I feel knowing some of the parallels like *nix and vendor
specifics (ie if you know Cisco IOS, many others follow this interface
like a standard) really comes in useful over time.
-Scott
On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 00:28 +0300, Saku Ytti wrote:
> On (2011-07-13 14:08 -0700), Larry Stites wrote:
>
> > Given what you know now, if you were 21 and just starting into networki=
ng /
> > communications industry which areas of study or specialty would you
> > prioritize?
>
> Again? Buy AAPL, INTC and MSFT with loan money and study *cough*, finer t=
hings
> in life.
>
> But in all seriousness, networking like I suppose most professions are no=
t
> about knowing one thing and stopping. It's evolving rather rapidly so mos=
t
> thing you know now are irrelevant in decade or two. What you should learn=
is
> how to learn, how to attack problems and learn to love doing both.
>
