[146888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton Kapela)
Thu Nov 24 22:27:00 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAJEFqDfht_k4wG3ev2m5uJWNhak16p=LMkPtJoBUSBmea+=uow@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:26:09 -0600
From: Anton Kapela <tkapela@gmail.com>
To: Tyler Haske <tyler.haske@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:40 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.
Replying on-list, as I think a route for this desired target can be
neatly summarized (oh, networking term!) in the following list:
1) be
2) do
3) have
First, start by being the sort of person that might work at these
places. Don't know how or who they "are?" -- meet a few, interview
them, ask about their life, attent NANOG (student rate: $100/meeting)
and have a drink or three with them, etc. Next, do the things they
do--this may take a while. Finally, you can 'have' whatever they are
having once you've traversed 1) and 2), assuming there's a spot on the
far-side of this bet.
You can thank Janet Plato (a great ex-Ann Arbor/ANS person) for this
method. I hope she doesn't mind my paraphrasing here.
Best,
-Tk
