RE: [TCLUG:23341] Linux work

["Austad, Jay" <austad@marketwatch.com>]

Companies are going to be wary of hiring someone with no experience.
Probably your best bet is to find an ISP or some company that will start you
out on some sort of helpdesk and give you ample opportunity to prove
yourself.  Helpdesk can suck bigtime, but as long as they let you touch
things instead of only taking phonecalls, it's not that bad.  

That's how I started out, it sucked but it was what I had to do.  We hire
people here with not much experience, and we let them work their way up as
the gain experience and prove that they can do good things.  Unfortunately,
we have 2 people that know Unix here, me and another guy, and we don't need
anymore.  

I don't think we'd ever stick someone in a sys admin position if they didn't
have experience.  In the computer industry, experience is probably more
valuable than education.  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jamie Ostrowski [mailto:jamie@floyd.getsetnet.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 10:24 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: [TCLUG:23341] Linux work
> 
> 
> 
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>       I was wondering if anyone on this list might know where someone
> without any formal experience in Linux/Unix administration 
> might be able
> to find work. I recently got my AAS and am still taking classes, but
> everyone I talk to is looking primarily for one thing: EXPERIENCE! 
> I have heard people say in the past there are certain tech 
> houses here in
> the cities that will take in people who have no experience 
> and get them up
> and running. Does anyone know where these places are? How in the world
> does anyone get any experience without having any experience? Man...
> 
>     - Jme
> 
> 
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