[AusNOG] Work experience in networking/telecoms/DCs? Getting my foot in the door?

[Graeme Allen]

That's the things about supply and demand.

The winning of the protocols wars by IP has created an interesting
challenge. The skills associated with getting *everything* to run over
IP were hard and expensive, but now that pretty much everything runs
over IP, the skill set is (has) becoming (become) commoditised. 

Value jn the future will not be in knowing IOS, but the ability to
understand the underlying principles and apply those to the vendor
abstractions with whomever is leading at the time.

If you want a valuable skill set in the future look to
"networking"+"programming", and don't align your career to proprietary
interfaces..


On Tue, 2014-12-23 at 23:12 +1300, Karl Hardisty wrote:
> You can. I know a COBOL guy. He’d retire, but the US$500k/yr+ is a bit
> too tempting at the moment. 
> 
> 
> His last comment was it’s a race to see who wears out first - him or
> the hardware. 
> 
> 
> k.
> 
> 
> p.s. if you’re wondering why your insurance premiums are so high, see
> above. 
> 
> 
> lE karl at mothership.co.nz lW mothership.co.nz  lA PO Box 99814,
> Newmarket  lM 021 999 990 lP 974 3171 
> 
> > On 23/12/2014, at 10:59 pm, Graeme Allen <gallen at mytelecom.com.au>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Yep, add Cobol and name your own price :-)
> > 
> > On 23 December 2014 20:58:10 GMT+11:00, Matt Palmer
> > <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:
> >         On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 08:56:14PM +1100, Graeme Allen wrote:
> >                  At one time they used the word "Legacy" as a weapon against Nortel,
> >                  Lucent, et al.  The thing about empires is they rarely learn from history. 
> >                  What's a Novell certified engineer worth these days?
> >         
> >         To one of the three places still running a Novell network?  Probably quite a
> >         lot.
> >         
> >         - Matt
> >         
> > 
> > Sent from a smartphone, so please excuse grammar and spelling
> > mistakes. Big fingers, little keyboard.
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