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RE: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Thu Dec 1 10:27:18 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: randal k <nanog@data102.com>, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 15:21:17 +0000
In-Reply-To: <CANeLk7TjUsrV9RLAtNYnECWVu+1se_in70Lypav=Z5KTvjdnKA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am looking for just such a person now. Good Juniper, some Cisco and Sysa=
dmin experience with an ISP background..
I expect it will be immensely difficult to find somebody. What makes it ev=
en more frustrating is that just such a person was not all that long ago m=
ade redundant!
So if anybody is looking for something to do around London...
--
Leigh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: randal k [mailto:nanog@data102.com]
> Sent: 01 December 2011 15:19
> To: Bill Stewart
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
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> 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
> ...
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> 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.
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> Randal
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Bill Stewart <nonobvious@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > And yeah, sometimes it means that you need to go
> > learn technologies like Active Directory
> >
> [snip]
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> >
> > In addition to learning scripting languages
> >
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