[wellylug]how to get your foot in the door of the world of UNIX ?

Rob Giltrap rob at kiwihq.com
Sun Jul 15 14:18:43 NZST 2007


For me personally, I took the "get an entry level job and get the boss 
to pay for your training" route.

Having help desk experience isn't a bad thing it sure gives you a taste 
of customer service which helps you be more effective when you end up 
working primarily with the servers. Having a little knowledge of windows 
isn't bad either (as it gives you more market appeal).

I would try and get into one of the big guys like Genii, Datacom, IBM, 
Fujitsu etc and say up front where you want to go. They have all sorts 
of resources you can use to train yourself up and people you can pick 
the brains of.

Not being biased in anyway ;-) I would of course recommend this ...

http://www.sun.com/training/certification/solaris/solaris10_certpath.html

Cheers, Rob.

Mian Lin wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am going to finish the "Networking Engineering" course in a month.
> After that, there is a field site training, which we will be assigned
> to do some practical things in one of  IT companies for a month.
>
> It is a good thing. But most situations are working in the windows
> environment. I am a big fan of Unix, playing around with different
> unix favors for about four years. I have some entry certifications
> ,suchas  RHCT,CCNA. I prefer to find myself a field site to work for
> in Unix environments. Because I am fond of coding and doing some
> supports in the unix environment.
>
> As I know, there are  more junior  positions in windows system than in
> unix system in the job market. I am probably easy to find a  kind of
> helpdesk entry job in windows environment, but I am afraid once I get
> in to the door, I will be hard to get into unix world again.
>
> If you were me, what do you think? get a job first or wait for  a
> chance to get in the Unix's door? I know the list is for linux or unix
> users, so I wanna get some advice from here.
>
> Kind regards,
> Mian
>
>





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