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

[McDonald Richards]

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

Learn the difference between roles and titles. You don't have to be an
'Engineer' to engineer.

Macca



On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
> --
> I told [my daughter] that if I see her digging a hole that she might not be
> able to crawl out of, my job isn't to stand back and say "That's a *real*
> nice hole you're digging there".
>                 -- Paul Tomblin, ASR
>
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