[180850] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex White-Robinson)
Thu Jun 11 00:49:14 2015
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From: Alex White-Robinson <alexwr@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 16:46:24 +1200
To: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> wrote:
> On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to
> have an appreciation of the past and how we got here,
> I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry
> have some challenges bringing new blood in--and
> treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with
> cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going
> to help us bring new engineers into the field to
> take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes
> give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud
> serial consoles anymore.
>
> Matt
> CCOF #1999322002 [0]
I've seen very little attention paid to junior talent in the last few
years, and know a few people who would have been talented engineers that
never got a chance to show it.
They moved into other industries because of the lack of junior roles.
I know very few people in network engineering that are under thirty, and
not that many under thirty five.
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > And this... is NANOG!
>
> Needs more ellipses and capitalization...more like
>
>
> This...IS...NANOG!!!
>
> building up to a nice crescendo roar as you kick the
> hapless interviewee backwards down the deep, dark well
>
>
> On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to
> have an appreciation of the past and how we got here,
> I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry
> have some challenges bringing new blood in--and
> treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with
> cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going
> to help us bring new engineers into the field to
> take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes
> give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud
> serial consoles anymore.
>
> Matt
> CCOF #1999322002 [0]
>
>
>
>
> [0] Certified Crufty Old Fart
>
