Up until very recently I worked as a Junior Administrator for a USGS site office. If I knew the Survey actually did this kind of work I might have stayed on. My office really didn't do much other than take periodic measurements of water levels and stream flow. However for 30 employees they still managed to need a Dell Quad Xeon server with 1 gig of ram, a second Dual Xeon server with 512 ram, and a Ultra Sparc 3 sun server. Talk about a waste of resources, if the load on the Sparc was ever over 3% it was because "top" was being run. A lot of neat equipment, but very low pay for students. Especially for technically inclined aspiring network administrators.
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Up until very recently I worked as a Junior Administrator for a USGS site office. If I knew the Survey actually did this kind of work I might have stayed on. My office really didn't do much other than take periodic measurements of water levels and stream flow. However for 30 employees they still managed to need a Dell Quad Xeon server with 1 gig of ram, a second Dual Xeon server with 512 ram, and a Ultra Sparc 3 sun server. Talk about a waste of resources, if the load on the Sparc was ever over 3% it was because "top" was being run. A lot of neat equipment, but very low pay for students. Especially for technically inclined aspiring network administrators.