[wellylug] Finding Linux Skills

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Tim McNamara
<paperless at timmcnamara.co.nz>wrote:

> On 20 October 2010 02:12, Peter Lambrechtsen <plambrechtsen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Neil Ramsay <
>> neil.ramsay at agentnoel.geek.nz> wrote:
>>
>>>  Good evening WellyLUG,
>>> just to throw in some loose change...
>>>
>>> As a graduate I have not found a good listing of Linux/UNIX jobs, which
>>> makes me believe there are not many out there.
>>> It is also not clear what skills should be learnt - especially as Jethro
>>> notes you need to be self-directed.
>>> In terms of experience, does the industry expect industry experience or
>>> can running a small LAN (4-5 computers) count as experience?
>>>
>>
>> If you're looking for hard work and long hours (50 hours per week
>> standard) but good money (from what I hear) you could always try Weta.  They
>> are always looking for good people
>>
>
> From what I've heard from ex-staff, Weta is one of the most horrible places
> to work ever imagined.
>

Yep I've heard that too... But if you're young and thurst for money.......


> I need to echo Neil's comments. Seeing that people found it impossible to
> find Linux admin staff was a real surprise from me. I'm dreading what will
> happen in a few weeks time. Not that I've got a computing qualification,
> I've just found out incrementally in the last three years that computing is
> consistently intellectually challenging for many reasons.
>

That's not just been in the last 3 years ;)


> For me personally, I'd really like to gain some sys admin experience so
> that I can support One Laptop per Child deployments. There are lots of kids
> in the world with those things. Getting them decent infrastructure will make
> everyone's life better.
>

If you are interested I may have a job.... Not paying so well, but working
with two secondary schools who run a mix of Novell stuff and Suse Linux.
e-mail me directly and I will see what I can tee up.


> Getting back on topic, I assumed that the reason that there are heavily
> sponsored events, like Summer of Tech [1] was that employers were needing to
> be subsidised to bring new young staff on.
>
[1] http://summeroftech.co.nz
>

Interesting... I hadn't heard about this site.\
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