[AusNOG] Job: Head of Network Operations - NEXTDC - SydneyC

[Matt Palmer]

On Fri, Mar 06, 2015 at 12:45:44PM +0900, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> Interesting perspective.... but I see things from both sides... not just an
> employee trying to get the most money possible - which isn't always a smart
> move.

Only from the employer's perspective.  All else being equal, the smartest
move an employee can make is to get the most money possible.

> I was just making a suggestion on how someone could be employed full-time,
> but work for a couple of employers and still drive a good normal full-time
> wage out of it.

That pre-supposes the existence of sufficient appropriate part-time jobs
with guaranteed-compatible schedules.  Given that the *vast* majority of
employers of networking specialists[1] would have sufficient work for a
full-time position, and most ops jobs have some on-call component, I
would consider it unlikely that there is going to be a large volume,
percentage-wise, of people able to take your advice.

On the upside, at least we're not the US, where taking multiple part-time
jobs instead of one full-time job completely screws with your ability to
access affordable medical care.  Yikes.

- Matt

[1] Unless they have an IEAust accredited BEng in a relevant field, they're
not engineers.


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