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adorai posted:It was never not good to be a mile wide. Once upon a time it was common to be a mile wide and an inch deep, or a mile deep and an inch wide. Now you need to be a mile wide and a mile deep, at least at some point. I am "specialized" in many things and that is how I have stayed relevant. I'm a mile wide inch deep that can go a mile deep if you need me to be. Pick a tech and I'll figure it out. Specializing in anything is just a crucifix to your career. Ask the cobol programmers how it's working out.
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jaegerx posted:Sounds like cissp role. Private sector pay is largely irrelevant in most public sector jobs. They tend to set the pay scale based on years of service and the work itself is pretty slow paced. People take the job though because of retirement benefits and so they can follow basic procedures from 9-5 every day.
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jaegerx posted:Specializing in anything is just a crucifix to your career. Ask the cobol programmers how it's working out. http://www.indeed.com/salary/Cobol-Developer.html Also note the quotes around specialized. It just means I have a deep knowledge of many technolgies, like a virtualization admin needs server OS, desktop OS, network, and storage knowledge.
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Race Realists posted:http://chp.tbe.taleo.net/chp03/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=ATLGA&cws=1&rid=2105 They're trying grab anyone who's into Network-Security whether that's entry or senior level. HR should probably work with IT more to be more specific just with either Senior, Mid or Entry Level. This isn't a Rouge IT Job Ad Posting. adorai posted:It was never not good to be a mile wide. Once upon a time it was common to be a mile wide and an inch deep, or a mile deep and an inch wide. Now you need to be a mile wide and a mile deep, at least at some point. I am "specialized" in many things and that is how I have stayed relevant. It depends on your role. If you're into Sales or an Account Manager then having a knowledge base of a mile-wide an inch deep is essentially required but if you're say a Senior Network Engineer then just stick to Networking. That said, I'd sort of expect any IT Professional especially anyone Senior to still have some understanding when it comes to IT in general such as Databases, Identity, etc but your primary focus should be getting specialized on your particular technical subset. Aren't you an IT Manager or CIO Adorai? jaegerx posted:Specializing in anything is just a crucifix to your career. Ask the cobol programmers how it's working out. Cobol has been around since the 60s, is an enormously successful programming language but technology has progressed. Granted there's plenty of business-value generated, COBOL Programmers are still sought after, make nearly 6-figures however these guys are only going to find work at older organizations such as big banks, older tech and at the Suburban Corporate HQ in a select handful cities not the trendy Downtown Office. What I intend from this post is that you can't say that specialization is a good/bad career choice but that it depends but if you're focusing on a Career in IT (not TAM/IT Management/Sales) I'd strongly err on the side of specialization. Gucci Loafers fucked around with this message at 08:50 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Neddy Seagoon posted:No, no you see on a normal day they will not have anything, or very little, to do at all, so they only need to pay one person to cover those things this but unironically
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jaegerx posted:Being a mile wide is actually good now. Thus DevOps Security was born.
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Jowj posted:RE: Austin chat. I thought the traffic problems were mostly related to moving North-South. Is it worth living outside Austin proper? As a single-male with no kids being able to walk to bars - plural - is a priority.
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Tab8715 posted:I thought the traffic problems were mostly related to moving North-South. As someone who recently moved back from a brief stint in Austin, you're not going to be walking to any bars unless you live 5 blocks from Rainey or East 6th. Unless your idea of 'fun' living is a 3-5br McMansion in Round Rock/Pflugerville or Anderson Mill area, I'd say hell no it's not worth it. There are some nice places in the Barton Hills/Zilker area and decent apartments in the South Congress area. I guess what I'm saying is if I had to move back to Austin it'd be south of the river and bonus, the commute Downtown isn't nearly as hellacious as coming in from the North/West/East. SeaborneClink fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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A lot of the people in this thread have the potential to be IT superstars, a mile wide and a mile deep. But not everyone can be a superstar, if you focus on COBOL or RPG, you could make a good living in your little niche.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:A lot of the people in this thread have the potential to be IT superstars, a mile wide and a mile deep. But not everyone can be a superstar, if you focus on COBOL or RPG, you could make a good living in your little niche. My dad was (is) one of those mile deep specialists with a little too much loyalty to his specialty. I've seen it screw him over multiple times. I feel like if he'd branch out he'd be doing better but he's in that generation where loyalty to the company/brand was supposedly a good thing.
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I'm not sure how many more times I can handle a situation of being handed over a project to implement that is just a list of stuff that's been sold and when I ask "where's the document that details the client's requirements, and our proposed solution?" I am met with blank stares.
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Thanks Ants posted:I'm not sure how many more times I can handle a situation of being handed over a project to implement that is just a list of stuff that's been sold and when I ask "where's the document that details the client's requirements, and our proposed solution?" I am met with blank stares. Your overall deployment process probably needs some work, then. We used to run into situations like yours quite a bit, but after enough pressure from the delivery team and more integration with presales, we were able to reduce the number of headaches from poorly written proposals/incorrect BOMs. We typically confer with presales ahead of time before they go piling on hardware and services to make sure that what they're selling is in line with reality. Specific requirements gathering and design is actually on us, as the delivery engineers; however, we usually have a good deal of input into the proposal and statement of work ahead of time so even if the person doing the implementation wasn't involved, they can be sure that someone else on the team was. In cases where things are messed up (this typically happens at the end of the government's fiscal year, where they suddenly get a week to spend a massive amount of money), we work with our PMs and contract personnel to modify the scope of work and order additional hardware to satisfy the customer's needs. psydude fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Apr 10, 2016 |
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Are Juniper's screenos devices still in wide use, or are they mostly being supplanted by the newer junos stuff? I've been working on screenos for a year and am taking on a more senior role with them now. I'm wondering if the experience I'm getting with them is worth much.
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rafikki posted:Are Juniper's screenos devices still in wide use, or are they mostly being supplanted by the newer junos stuff? I've been working on screenos for a year and am taking on a more senior role with them now. I'm wondering if the experience I'm getting with them is worth much. Not sure about widespread but they are out there. Many are likely being replaced by SRX especially after all the vulnerabilities.
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this is too funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ "Don't cry, you can run bash on Windows 10 now"
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:this is too funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ
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Fiendish Dr. Wu posted:this is too funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivpCKEiQOQ
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adorai posted:At first I thought, "great, another one of these loving videos" but it was definitely worth it. loving node.js hipsters. Yeah whoever made it really knows what's up
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I'm going to be doing a chapter-by-chapter discussion of O'Reilly/Google's new Site Reliability Engineering book here over the next couple of weeks. Do get the book and join in!
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Tab8715 posted:I thought the traffic problems were mostly related to moving North-South. The south > north traffic got way worse recently: http://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/austin-nightmarish-traffic-worsened-mopac-lane-closures The day the above happened I was in traffic for >2 hours if I remember right, for a 24 mile commute. It hasn't been that bad since, but now I come in later. Anyway, living in northish austin near breweries can be cool, but really nothing compares to South Congress/East 6th for that. If you're a bike person you can live further out and make a pretty good compromise: 15-20 minute bike ride to bars isn't too bad. If you wanna continue convo just PM me so we don't poo poo up the thread. Vulture Culture: That looks cool and I bought the book. I'll follow along!
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adorai posted:At first I thought, "great, another one of these loving videos" but it was definitely worth it. loving node.js hipsters. It was at this point I repeated it aloud and started laughing uncontrollably. My fiancee thinks I'm an idiot. Such is the fate of Working in IT 3.0
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Is everyone ready for their Badlock patches tomorrow!?! Going to be an exciting day!!!
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Internet Explorer posted:Is everyone ready for their Badlock patches tomorrow!?! Going to be an exciting day!!! I have one (1) full bottle of hard liquor on my shelf.
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Had a brief meeting with our general manager this morning, he asked me to find every penny I can cut out of my budget (even though I already did). We may have a freeze on all unnecessary projects as cash flow is low and this winter season was awful. He also talked about shuffling staff around or laying some people off, since if there are no projects, they won't be needed. Sounds like it's time to update my resume and  out of here.
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Is seasonal lows an uncommon occurrence in your company? If so, yea probably should dust off the resume.. We laid off a guy last year citing no project money, but then my boss spend 3.5 million on unnecessary upgrades to 100G in the same project scope. Not that this is a similar issue, but "project cash flow" seems like an easy way to let go of people where I'm at.
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Client of mine has been slashing staff costs and everyone has to 'tighten their belts' The two location heads just expense'd $17k in charter flights for hunting and bought some $6k massage chair. The chair is amazing btw.
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Sepist posted:Is seasonal lows an uncommon occurrence in your company? If so, yea probably should dust off the resume.. He works at a ski resort.
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Sepist posted:Is seasonal lows an uncommon occurrence in your company? If so, yea probably should dust off the resume.. It's a ski resort, so no, the summer season is always slow, but it's never "spend exactly $0" slow. This past winter was awful.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I have one (1) full bottle of hard liquor on my shelf. Hey guys there's a super important critical flaw in Samba/SMB. Be ready for April 12th! We'll keep you up to date! *website hasn't been updated since 3/31* *crickets*
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A KB article from Microsoft, minus the patch, would be nice. Even if it is a placeholder KB with some basic information and a KB number so we know what to look for. If you look on Microsoft's site there is no mention of it anywhere, which is odd.
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I don't think so, but it would be nice if they made an exception for THE ENTIRE WORLD IS GOING TO DIE hype patches.
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Internet Explorer posted:THE ENTIRE WORLD IS GOING TO DIE hype patches. Maybe they don't see it that way.
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Internet Explorer posted:THE ENTIRE WORLD IS GOING TO DIE hype patches. This is now the only type of patch that exists It's just a matter of time before every update to the "tzdata" package gets a sweet website and logo because some province of Botswana updated their daylight savings time period to end one day later.
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I'm That rear end in a top hat with the MacBook Pro Retina running at 1:1 resolution today.
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CLAM DOWN posted:MS doesn't usually put out preemptive KBs for patches, do they?
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Vulture Culture posted:I'm That rear end in a top hat with the MacBook Pro Retina running at 1:1 resolution today. Whats the point of all them pixels if you ain't using em?
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One of my switches died today and the only spare switch I have is not POE and doesn't have the right fiber connections to go back to my core switch. I've been stuck here loving around with a workaround since part of the building is out until I get my replacement switch tomorrow. I'm also not much of a network guy, it's been about 10 years since I've hosed with it, but we don't really have one here anyways. I think I might do a refresher of old stuff I used to know then start buckling down for a CCNA because gently caress being lost and confused with only the basics. Also gently caress whoever decided to by all HP procurve networking garbage when they put this building up and gently caress whoever decided not to have spares of everything on hand in case this happens.
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