That seems to be the exact niche I end up facing everywhere I turn - whether it's Lotus Notes in Windows, or Workflow on UNIX - the most positive response to my resume has universally been those companies that need developers who not only can handle but atually like working both sides of the fence - I DO get looked at as if I've sprouted antennae, true, but that's more because they're not used to people who actually LIKE doing both - particularly if it's in a production support environment as opposed to purely admin or purely development. Liz On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 11:42:45AM -0600, Kent Schumacher wrote: > > work with Linux all day doing 50% admin and 50% development. > > How'd you manage to swing that? I've lately been telling people (both > within my current company and hiring types from other companies) that I > want to do a mix of admin and development work and they generally look > at me like I've just sprouted antennae and tuned in a weather report. > They seem to think that there are admins and there are programmers and never > the twain shall meet. (Then there was the guy who said, "Oh, you mean IS? > Sure, we've got lots of internal-use reports that need to be created."...) > I can't help suspecting that, if I could phrase it in language they can > understand, it would improve my chances of getting there. > > -- Imagination is intelligence having fun... e-mail: kethry at winternet.com URL: http://WWW.winternet.com/~kethry/index.html