I am the senior unix admin at a mid sized services company. I am _at_ work about 50 hours a week. When I am not at work I am thinking about it, reading books related to work, reading trade magazines both online and in print, evaluating new software, reconfiguring old software. The company does not see these things as something to pay their employees for, they're expected to already know it! Occasionally I find time for a few beers that will hopefully distract me from work. In two years I have not even taken a week off. Essentially, I am (like the original post states) always working.
Now here's the kicker:
This may sound great to a lot of people. Hell, I actually like it. But I know temps that make more than I do! And on top of that, I am the ONLY unix admin working on the infrastructure.
So why don't I (and people just like me) find a new job? In my case it comes down to age and education. Like a lot of people I know I am young (early 20's) and I did not go to college (sure, work will pay for it now, but who has the time?).
So what does this say to me? Over worked, underpaid, not much opportunity for advancement because of corporate lables and a lack of time, and very little social time.
It seems that in the tech world of today we are increasingly becoming more the drone of corporate society. Sure we try and stay the individual by talking online to friends, going to meetings like BoF, but it all now boils down to things we can probably use at work.
Look out 1984! We're a few years behind, but we're making real progress.
Well I went to Walmart to purchase a gun but found out that there's a 3 day waiting period in VA so I headed to the toy section and got several orange 9mm's. This way I can tell the bad guys I have a gun and not be lying. I then went to the local liquor store to get 2 gallons each of whiskey, vodka (for bloody mary's at work the next day), and tequila (since it's not warm here I'll pretend I'm in Mexico). In case the power goes out I charged up the laptop battery and loaded the hard drive with mp3's so at least I can listen to music while the world blows up. And just in case I downloaded much internet porn because everybody knows that the adult sites aren't y2k compliant.
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I am the senior unix admin at a mid sized services company. I am _at_ work about 50 hours a week. When I am not at work I am thinking about it, reading books related to work, reading trade magazines both online and in print, evaluating new software, reconfiguring old software. The company does not see these things as something to pay their employees for, they're expected to already know it! Occasionally I find time for a few beers that will hopefully distract me from work. In two years I have not even taken a week off. Essentially, I am (like the original post states) always working.
Now here's the kicker:
This may sound great to a lot of people. Hell, I actually like it. But I know temps that make more than I do! And on top of that, I am the ONLY unix admin working on the infrastructure.
So why don't I (and people just like me) find a new job? In my case it comes down to age and education. Like a lot of people I know I am young (early 20's) and I did not go to college (sure, work will pay for it now, but who has the time?).
So what does this say to me? Over worked, underpaid, not much opportunity for advancement because of corporate lables and a lack of time, and very little social time.
It seems that in the tech world of today we are increasingly becoming more the drone of corporate society. Sure we try and stay the individual by talking online to friends, going to meetings like BoF, but it all now boils down to things we can probably use at work.
Look out 1984! We're a few years behind, but we're making real progress.
You are a dolt that obviously has no clue as to what's going on. If you don't even use Linux why did you read this? Dolt.
Well I went to Walmart to purchase a gun but found out that there's a 3 day waiting period in VA so I headed to the toy section and got several orange 9mm's. This way I can tell the bad guys I have a gun and not be lying. I then went to the local liquor store to get 2 gallons each of whiskey, vodka (for bloody mary's at work the next day), and tequila (since it's not warm here I'll pretend I'm in Mexico). In case the power goes out I charged up the laptop battery and loaded the hard drive with mp3's so at least I can listen to music while the world blows up. And just in case I downloaded much internet porn because everybody knows that the adult sites aren't y2k compliant.