[147056] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (randal k)
Thu Dec 1 10:18:18 2011
In-Reply-To: <CAD45i01K_e4pkuvmJwHQp3rGMYo21Cb_XMBZ+a6PMzaCHf7Tog@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:17:08 -0700
From: randal k <nanog@data102.com>
To: Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is a huge point. We've had a LOT of trouble finding good network
engineers who have all of the previously mentioned "soft" attributes -
attitude, team player, can write, can speak, can run a small project - and
are more than just Cisco pimps. I cannot explain how frustrating it is to
meet a newly minted CCNP who has zero Linux experience, can't script
anything, can't setup a syslog server, doesn't understand AD much less
LDAP, etc. Imagine, an employee who can help themselves 90% of the time ...
Finding the diamond that has strong niche skill, networking, with a broad &
just-deep-enough sysadmin background has been very, very hard. I cannot
emphasize enough the importance of cross-training. Immensely valuable.
Randal
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com> wrote:
> And yeah, sometimes it means that you need to go
> learn technologies like Active Directory
>
[snip]
>
> In addition to learning scripting languages
>
