Well, I taught myself linux systems administration. I was a programmer before that. I got myself a used PC, put linux on it, and went ahead and configured dns, dhcp, web, mail, etc. When I went to job interviews, I'd let them connect to my machine. If you have systems admin experience and you have a linux box at home that you admin yourself, that's good enough for most job interviews. I know employers always want experience. I often hear people complain that they can't get a job because they don't have experience and they can't get experience because they don't have a job. That's a huge problem. But it is also an example of employers not really doing things in their own best interest. Very few high tech jobs are the same 5 years down the road. What you know today probably isn't going to matter 5 years from now. The ability to learn new things is about 99% of success in high tech. I don't know you personally, Darragh, but if you are the kind of person who learns fast, you're doing the employer a favor by showing them that although you don't have professional linux admin experience, you are into linux and, more importantly, you can learn. I'm going to say that almost everybody on this list deserves a job. Just by virtue of what you've already accomplished, you're probably in the 90th percentile for high tech workers. You're probably smarter and better motivated than 90% of your competitors. The thing that's holding most of us back is our disability. Well, depending on how you want to look at it, you could say what's holding us back is accessibility or lack thereof. Anyway, the point is that when I went into job interviews, I really believed that although my experience might not have been quite up to what others might bring, I was doing the employer a favor by letting them interview me. I believe that to this day. On 2/14/2013 2:41 AM, Darragh OHeiligh wrote:
I am comfortable with Linux but I'm not sure if I'd have the skills required to administer it.
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From: "John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu> To: Blind sysadmins list <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>, Date: 13/02/2013 22:20 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] SCCM 2012. What a surprise Sent by: "Blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>
Are you thinking about changing jobs? They say you should never wait until you get sacked before looking for another job. What about linux system administration? I don't know what it's like where you are but around here, linux systems admins can pick their job. Do you know anything about math? Math programming jobs are hot right now. Finance, genetics, weather forecasting, they're all getting heavily into using math to solve problems. Of course, I live in high-tehc heaven here in Madison, Wisconsin. Well, it's no Silicon Valley but there is a lot going on here.
Hugely dissappointing doesn't come close to what it is.
Seriously. I keep saying this on this list. Am I alone in my experience? I said a few months ago that I'm running out of systems. It's only gettting worse now! SCOM 2012 and SCCM 2012 are a right off. Considering I was the main administrator of these systems in the 2007 version that's two more systems that I can no longer administer.
So. lets look at the past year. Secure web gateway. lost last year. Secure mail gateway. Lost about six months ago. Diskeeper 12 clients. Lost three months ago. Whats up gold. lost access to the alerts console last year. Zenprise. Just implemented. Hundreds of unlabeled buttons. VSphere 5.1. Lots of unlabeled buttons. Web based version is no bettter. HP EVA. Tree view is partially broken since last update 2 months ago.
Now, last year I was in a team of two. The other person was quite new and I was taking on the bulk of the work. He had the simple things like group policy and active directory. Now, one of the people who used to work here has come back. That in itsself is brilliant because he has a lot of experience and he took over from the newby. We have another person on
On 2/13/2013 11:39 AM, Darragh OHeiligh wrote: the
team now. He's been promoted from the service desk. I'm absolutely delighted for him. He deserves the promotion and the oppertunity.
However, within no time he'll be passed the newby jobs and he'll be looking at the interesting systems.
I used to read about people on various lists where they'd find that gradually systems became less accessible and after some time they'd simply find themselves surpluss to requirements.
I am in danger of this happening to me at this stage.
I don't have many systems left. I'm deliberitly holding back projects and upgrades because the new systems aren't accessible to me.
So, tell me. What would you do in my situation?
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Darragh ? H?iligh Fujitsu
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From: "Barry Toner" <Barry.Toner@clanmil.org.uk> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>, Date: 13/02/2013 17:28 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] SCCM 2012. What a surprise Sent by: "Blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>
Thanks for the warning.
That's hugely disappointing.
Barry
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [ mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh Sent: 13 February 2013 17:12 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] SCCM 2012. What a surprise
So, Today was my first day really using SCCM 2012.
Unfortunately, if your thinking of using it, just forget about it.
It The Ribbin isn't accessible. Neither is the summary list on the bottom of the screen. There are a huge number of tab stops but yet you cant access the bottom left of the screen. Tab stops seem to be randem. The tab control gets focus in the most unusual situations. Oh, and the great thing? The stupid Jaws cursor doesn't work in the application.
Why is it that more and more applications are becoming inaccessible? Is it just me who is having more problems? Think about it! More applications written in Java, Installers aren't accessible. More so now than ever.
So, either screen reader developers aren't keeping up with modern technologies or companies who make these products are doing absolutely nothing when it comes to accessibility.
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