I'm afraid you'd lose that bet. We're a diverse group with a lot of technology consulting and we've all had experience in different OS's. The folks collecting resumes know what they looking for... If you have the fundamentals we can train you in house or send you to vendor specific training to get you up to speed.
What we were looking for was a senior level person who knew Unix, knew SAN, knew storage management, knew HA, and had experience in large enterprise environments. NAS and CAS a plus.
The problem was not that a large number of resumes got rejected, it was that very few people from the local area applied. Most of the resumes were from out of town, and weren't willing to permnantly relocate. The locals that got rejected were just not up to par.. Linux experience is relevant, but not to us when all you have is a couple years managing a webserver for your company, no matter what OS it was.
Not to mention I'd hardly call Solaris an obscure OS. Linux fits the "obscure 20 year old OS" description more than Solaris does.
Ahh, if you only knew what really went into getting just the 3 that showed up. Short of knocking on doors or waving magic wands, I don't know what else you're expecting.
There just isn't a big enough talent pool around here that fits our needs. Java developers and DBA's are a dime a dozen but real Unix/Storage admins seem to be in shortage in this area.
We had 2 open positions for people with Unix and/or storage backgrounds and we only had 3 applicants come in and interview after about 4 months. These were jobs on the top of the pay scale, working for a prestigious outfit. Luckily 2 of them were actually decent, otherwise we'd still be looking.
If IT workers are getting laid off, its not in my field!
I can tell you from experience getting shares in a private company that might go public in the future (unlikely for a small consulting outfit) or get bought out (more likely if you have a successful outfit that specializes in something rare) is worthless.
What you want is cash. Upfront.
Basically I would recommend you go for some sort of promotion in title and pay (ie. from Consultant to Senior Consultant) and/or a written bonus plan, something like "For the next 5 years, an additional $5000 bonus will be paid on a yearly basis". Ultimately though making a commitment of 5 years is employment suicide. You really will broaden your horizons if you change your point of view either from a change in venue or change in role. If you choose to stay, stay because they made it worthwhile, not because they locked you in. Hell, even the phone company only makes you sign a 2 year cell phone contract.
I disagree. The tourists are the only ones looking at everything trying to catch it all in, not the locals going about their daily life. The rest of us are just avoiding eye contact and only paying attention to where we are going and what's going to intersect our path getting there.
As somebody who's work in and around huge datacenter facilities for years, I'm not impressed at all. It looks like any other well organized purpose built large scale datacenter I've ever been to.
If services are useless given the freely available access perhaps it is a good time to close up shop. Seriously, go spend the resources (time, money) on something else.
Any real fan of sushi knows that Flying Fish Roe is almost always really smelt roe. It is cheaper, and actually available to most diners whereas real flying fish roe is prohibitively expensive since it is rare outside of certain places. It looks and tastes the same to me, so ultimately I think you are getting what you paid for.
Same goes for crab. With the exception of softshell crab at sushi places the crab is always made from a imitation fish cake made from pollack.
The trick to good sushi is knowing your chef, which I find is a lot easier to do since you are usually sitting in front of him while he is preparing your meal. They will tell you what is fresh, what's really in such and such, etc.
It doesn't surprise me that a lot of fish is mislabeled... Since most of it is being caught on the other side of the world it goes through many hands before hitting your plate. Any number of people filling out forms, purchasing, etc, may get the type wrong... especially once it is cut up. There are no doubt scammers out there but I tend to believe it is more ignorance than malice that is mislabeling the majority of the fish. There are so many sushi places springing up that just don't have the history and training that sushi chefs in Japan have.
This seems absurd. Some people are very creative but they try to make up uses for something that isn't wanted or needed. Certainly one of these people. Robots are cool. I want a robot. But to clean my house, maybe walk the dog when I can't be there, that sort of stuff. I don't want a robot to play me my "Top 10 songs to listen to before you die" playlist on my iPod. I'd much rather be found by a rescue dog. Its real, and would cheer me up much better than a machine "buddy".
I think most small and medium business owners who opt for junior level people know this but just can't afford to pay for someone who's had X number of years experience in Y and Z. They take the trade off in the hopes that the person will do well enough and learn the rest on the job. Large businesses are willing to pay the big bucks for people but are sometimes quick to replace them if they aren't getting what they want out of the person, hence the trend towards contractors. If you rely in IT for your business to operate, and Johnny can't cut it when things fail, you're not going to be doing so well anymore. I think this is where the whole skilled trade idea comes in to play. High paid consultants and contractors that move from job to job? Not everybody has a plumber on staff, but they might have a handy man (i.e., Johnny) who can do the basics and can call in a plumber when real problems or project work needs to be done.
Apprenticeships in IT are actually more common, especially in IT environments with multiple people. The student that goes to work somewhere for $10/hr is getting on the job learning. In theory they are learning not only IT skills but also some business skills since the small businesses that hire them are more likely to include them in stuff outside of a narrowly defined job. When you get into the medium and large size businesses, its standard practice to have junior, mid, and senior level IT folks working together. This is basically how I built my career. I didn't go to college. I learned enough on my own by building my own PC to become "little Johnny" working in dad's office where I learned about having a real job, then got a real job where I was repairing PC's and learned Unix hands on and networking, got a network admin job, moved on to a Unix job, etc etc...
Apparently I've had this ability for years and didn't even consider it to be a mutant ability. I think most people call this "strike anywhere matches".
Is the root cause really the violent video game or the poor parenting that includes letting your kid watch violent stuff all the time the root cause? I saw a funny quote not too long ago that said "With all the comedy on TV, why isn't there comedy rampant on the streets?". I fail to see this as a direct cause-effect scenario such as smoking and can't take this study seriously. Aggressiveness is a social and mental issue that certainly can be aggravated by other violence but caused? I don't think so.
More to the point, its so technologically retarded that it won't add any security AND will cost millions of State money to implement because its not just an incremental upgrade. I'm a NH resident and am very happy to see this signed into law.
Guess you missed the one about all of the chinese toothpaste that's been banned. Technically you don't eat toothpaste, but its still something you stick in your mouth.
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I'm afraid you'd lose that bet. We're a diverse group with a lot of technology consulting and we've all had experience in different OS's. The folks collecting resumes know what they looking for... If you have the fundamentals we can train you in house or send you to vendor specific training to get you up to speed.
What we were looking for was a senior level person who knew Unix, knew SAN, knew storage management, knew HA, and had experience in large enterprise environments. NAS and CAS a plus.
The problem was not that a large number of resumes got rejected, it was that very few people from the local area applied. Most of the resumes were from out of town, and weren't willing to permnantly relocate. The locals that got rejected were just not up to par.. Linux experience is relevant, but not to us when all you have is a couple years managing a webserver for your company, no matter what OS it was.
Not to mention I'd hardly call Solaris an obscure OS. Linux fits the "obscure 20 year old OS" description more than Solaris does.
Ahh, if you only knew what really went into getting just the 3 that showed up. Short of knocking on doors or waving magic wands, I don't know what else you're expecting.
There just isn't a big enough talent pool around here that fits our needs. Java developers and DBA's are a dime a dozen but real Unix/Storage admins seem to be in shortage in this area.
We had 2 open positions for people with Unix and/or storage backgrounds and we only had 3 applicants come in and interview after about 4 months. These were jobs on the top of the pay scale, working for a prestigious outfit. Luckily 2 of them were actually decent, otherwise we'd still be looking.
If IT workers are getting laid off, its not in my field!
I can tell you from experience getting shares in a private company that might go public in the future (unlikely for a small consulting outfit) or get bought out (more likely if you have a successful outfit that specializes in something rare) is worthless.
What you want is cash. Upfront.
Basically I would recommend you go for some sort of promotion in title and pay (ie. from Consultant to Senior Consultant) and/or a written bonus plan, something like "For the next 5 years, an additional $5000 bonus will be paid on a yearly basis". Ultimately though making a commitment of 5 years is employment suicide. You really will broaden your horizons if you change your point of view either from a change in venue or change in role. If you choose to stay, stay because they made it worthwhile, not because they locked you in. Hell, even the phone company only makes you sign a 2 year cell phone contract.
I dunno about you but I feel a lot more safer crossing 5th Ave than being out in the wild where I might get mauled by a bear or some sort of big cat.
I disagree. The tourists are the only ones looking at everything trying to catch it all in, not the locals going about their daily life. The rest of us are just avoiding eye contact and only paying attention to where we are going and what's going to intersect our path getting there.
Only one way to find out!
As somebody who's work in and around huge datacenter facilities for years, I'm not impressed at all. It looks like any other well organized purpose built large scale datacenter I've ever been to.
If services are useless given the freely available access perhaps it is a good time to close up shop. Seriously, go spend the resources (time, money) on something else.
Any real fan of sushi knows that Flying Fish Roe is almost always really smelt roe. It is cheaper, and actually available to most diners whereas real flying fish roe is prohibitively expensive since it is rare outside of certain places. It looks and tastes the same to me, so ultimately I think you are getting what you paid for.
Same goes for crab. With the exception of softshell crab at sushi places the crab is always made from a imitation fish cake made from pollack.
The trick to good sushi is knowing your chef, which I find is a lot easier to do since you are usually sitting in front of him while he is preparing your meal. They will tell you what is fresh, what's really in such and such, etc.
It doesn't surprise me that a lot of fish is mislabeled... Since most of it is being caught on the other side of the world it goes through many hands before hitting your plate. Any number of people filling out forms, purchasing, etc, may get the type wrong... especially once it is cut up. There are no doubt scammers out there but I tend to believe it is more ignorance than malice that is mislabeling the majority of the fish. There are so many sushi places springing up that just don't have the history and training that sushi chefs in Japan have.
Considering this is a recommended accessory to the $3800 DVD player they sell, I'm not surprised.
This seems absurd. Some people are very creative but they try to make up uses for something that isn't wanted or needed. Certainly one of these people. Robots are cool. I want a robot. But to clean my house, maybe walk the dog when I can't be there, that sort of stuff. I don't want a robot to play me my "Top 10 songs to listen to before you die" playlist on my iPod. I'd much rather be found by a rescue dog. Its real, and would cheer me up much better than a machine "buddy".
I guess Google finally got the hint after seeing such a large number of image searches for "Your anus".
I think most small and medium business owners who opt for junior level people know this but just can't afford to pay for someone who's had X number of years experience in Y and Z. They take the trade off in the hopes that the person will do well enough and learn the rest on the job. Large businesses are willing to pay the big bucks for people but are sometimes quick to replace them if they aren't getting what they want out of the person, hence the trend towards contractors. If you rely in IT for your business to operate, and Johnny can't cut it when things fail, you're not going to be doing so well anymore. I think this is where the whole skilled trade idea comes in to play. High paid consultants and contractors that move from job to job? Not everybody has a plumber on staff, but they might have a handy man (i.e., Johnny) who can do the basics and can call in a plumber when real problems or project work needs to be done.
Apprenticeships in IT are actually more common, especially in IT environments with multiple people. The student that goes to work somewhere for $10/hr is getting on the job learning. In theory they are learning not only IT skills but also some business skills since the small businesses that hire them are more likely to include them in stuff outside of a narrowly defined job. When you get into the medium and large size businesses, its standard practice to have junior, mid, and senior level IT folks working together. This is basically how I built my career. I didn't go to college. I learned enough on my own by building my own PC to become "little Johnny" working in dad's office where I learned about having a real job, then got a real job where I was repairing PC's and learned Unix hands on and networking, got a network admin job, moved on to a Unix job, etc etc...
$100 only covers a small handful of dog genes that identify ancestral lines. $/gene its much cheaper for the $1000 human scan.
Apparently I've had this ability for years and didn't even consider it to be a mutant ability. I think most people call this "strike anywhere matches".
Is the root cause really the violent video game or the poor parenting that includes letting your kid watch violent stuff all the time the root cause? I saw a funny quote not too long ago that said "With all the comedy on TV, why isn't there comedy rampant on the streets?". I fail to see this as a direct cause-effect scenario such as smoking and can't take this study seriously. Aggressiveness is a social and mental issue that certainly can be aggravated by other violence but caused? I don't think so.
More to the point, its so technologically retarded that it won't add any security AND will cost millions of State money to implement because its not just an incremental upgrade. I'm a NH resident and am very happy to see this signed into law.
That's why folks like Iron Mountain are around that provide climate controlled media storage.
Uh, you're not too bright are you?
Guess you missed the one about all of the chinese toothpaste that's been banned. Technically you don't eat toothpaste, but its still something you stick in your mouth.
Then you'll need to sign up for AOL.
VHS? I think you meant Betamax.
actually, I've found that to be quite true. Girls like guys with jobs, since you can buy them drinks and other things to suit their fancy.
Your girlfriend also can give you extra confidence and help you out with finding a job. Maybe her dad runs some company and can get you in the door.
That's 22 times the legitimate content of the internet. Including porn its only about .3 Internet.