[ale] OT: How many Linux guys are looking for work in ATL?

[Jim Kinney]

heh, heh. I sent so many bug reports to RedHat that sent me the IPO
offer letter :-)

THAT worked out pretty well!

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Damon Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 03:12 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:20 -0400, leam hall wrote:
>>> Here's what I've done in my career, besides the "10 vital tips" blog I wrote.
>>>
>>> 1. Take the SAGE sysadmin level guidelines and work my way up from the
>>> bottom. Do everything, even if you don't need it at home.
>>>
>>> 2. Look at what skills are requested for the jobs I want. Do those
>>> things and make sure they are highlighted on my resume.
>>>
>>> 3. Volunteer time in Open Source projects for things I enjoy and want
>>> to do for pay.
>> Does it count having your name and E-Mail address in the Linux Kernel
>> source tree MAINTAINERS file?
>
> Gee, I once was credited with finding a bug and testing the fix, in the
> kernel commented out lines.
>>
>>> Things they always ask for:
>>> Shell scripting, Apache/Tomcat support, some sort of database support
>>> (Oracle/MySQL), networking expertise, DNS, e-mail, NFS/volume
>>> management, system configuring and monitoring (Nagios).
>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>>
>>> Leam
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
>>
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