I'll weigh in on this one as well. I've been a programmer on and off for 15+ years, everything from 6502 assembly to an assortment of application specific scripting languages. I've also done end user support (help desk and non-help desk), been a sys admin, and a college instructor! People look at me as if my head has become detached from my shoulders like a hanging chad when I admit to liking support. Of course no matter what I start doing whereever I've been I always end up doing some coding as well as any other stuff. Happy holidays all! Jack On Wednesday 20 December 2000 13:42, you wrote: > 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.