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reply to BosstonesOwn

Re: Linux Popularity Sparks Salary Jump

I agree, most of the juniors I have worked with said days working with me and a co-worker at a former company had them learning more in a week then they did in a year.

I think the admin way of thinking is not teachable, and thats what makes certain admins very good. This is aso the reason why Nations like India and China don't really produce the amount of good admins that the us and canada does.
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I've been an AIX admin for approximately 8 months. I have some Linux under my belt, but AIX is really a different world. I work with a guy who is almost done with his Master's. I've picked up more in 8 months than he learned in his Master's program in Enterprise Architecture.

I work in an area that has a huge outsource of people from India with tremendous qualifications and their resumes padded with experience. I think that all of this stuff is padded from their country with bogus real life experience because only a small fraction of them know what I know, but they're supposed to have the qualifications of someone who has 5-7 years under their belt.

I agree that there is a certain mentality that admins have to have. I was just talking about that today with another admin. I think that actual mentality is the mentality to troubleshoot. You have to be a master troubleshooter to be a good admin. That skill set not only allows you to be able to put out sys admin fires of the day, but for you to be able to go through your daily sys admin tasks.
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A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -MLK

so effectively like an HVAC service tech, you can know the engineering of the system but it takes a special mind to actually want to look at the machine and probe for the problems, from angles the book writer never even thought about.
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I know nothing about HVAC, so your analogy wins by default.