To get good sysadmin work, hang out with other sysadmins (online and off). Personal networking is where quite a lot of the decent jobs come from. IME, quality of co-workers is almost more important than what the business actually does.
This is of course not advice to hold off looking until then ;-) Six years’ sysadmin experience, even at college, is very nice on the resume.
(I assume you’re paying serious attention to that carpal tunnel—touchtyping properly, using a decent keyboard, trying mouse substitutes like trackballs or trackpads—the other-optimisations are endless ;-)
IME, quality of co-workers is almost more important than what the business actually does.
Agree, but I’d even scrap that ‘almost’. The boss is also more important than the peers up to a certain level of quality and then the immediate coworkers can potentially take it from ok to good.
To get good sysadmin work, hang out with other sysadmins (online and off). Personal networking is where quite a lot of the decent jobs come from. IME, quality of co-workers is almost more important than what the business actually does.
This is of course not advice to hold off looking until then ;-) Six years’ sysadmin experience, even at college, is very nice on the resume.
(I assume you’re paying serious attention to that carpal tunnel—touchtyping properly, using a decent keyboard, trying mouse substitutes like trackballs or trackpads—the other-optimisations are endless ;-)
Agree, but I’d even scrap that ‘almost’. The boss is also more important than the peers up to a certain level of quality and then the immediate coworkers can potentially take it from ok to good.