[146711] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim deleskie)
Sun Nov 20 21:59:28 2011
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:58:30 -0400
From: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
To: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
What Chris said.... Get a job in the industry.. work like crazy
learning as much as you can to learn, get involved in the industry to
make connections.
-jim
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 9:40 PM, Tyler Haske <tyler.haske@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm looking for a mentor who can help me focus my career so eventually I
>> wind up working at one of the Tier I ISPs as a senior tech. I want to
>> handle the big pipes that hold everyone's data.
>
> why not just apply as a tech at any of the dozen or so large ISP's in the US?
>
> <http://www22.verizon.com/jobs/>
>
> <https://recruiting.level3.com/ENG/Candidates/default.cfm>
>
> <http://www.tatacommunications.com/careers/>
>
> I'm sure some google-searching (or bing or whatever) would lead you in
> the right direction.
>
>