<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Tim McNamara <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paperless@timmcnamara.co.nz">paperless@timmcnamara.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 20 October 2010 02:12, Peter Lambrechtsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plambrechtsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">plambrechtsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><div>On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Neil Ramsay <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:neil.ramsay@agentnoel.geek.nz" target="_blank">neil.ramsay@agentnoel.geek.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Good evening WellyLUG,<br>
just to throw in some loose change...<br>
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As a graduate I have not found a good listing of Linux/UNIX jobs,
which makes me believe there are not many out there.<br>
It is also not clear what skills should be learnt - especially as
Jethro notes you need to be self-directed.<br>
In terms of experience, does the industry expect industry experience
or can running a small LAN (4-5 computers) count as experience?<br></div></blockquote></div></div><div><br><div class="im">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<br>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>From what I've heard from ex-staff, Weta is one of the most horrible places to work ever imagined.</div></div></blockquote><div><br>Yep I've heard that too... But if you're young and thurst for money.......<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div></div><div>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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>That's not just been in the last 3 years ;)<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote">
<div></div><div>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.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>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.<br>
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<div></div><div>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.<br></div></div>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>[1] <a href="http://summeroftech.co.nz" target="_blank">http://summeroftech.co.nz</a></div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Interesting... I hadn't heard about this site.\<br></div></div>