Tom- You'll likely find (at least I did), that moving from a you know everything to a you know only about X position very beneficial. You are now the expert about one technology (AD), but, you've got another guy who is the expert about switching and routing. He will know more than you do about it because he focuses on switching & routing all day.
I know way more than I did about firewalls, switches, routers, storage, all that now than before I started at my current gig. Before I was the last stop as far as anything IT, now I just focus on AD & Exchange. When I need some firewall rules, or a vlan, or anything like that, I send the right person a list of my requirements and proposed solution, and I get a reply back detailing whether my solution is good, or how to make it better. This way, I'm learning how the best way to setup the pix for something, or what kind of config the content switch will do best with for whatever. Just standing around the office talking to the folks that specialize in this or that I learn about what they do, and they learn about what I do. So that's my take on your fear of losing knowledge of things. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 2:39 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] OT: new job Well, my fears are twofold. There is the fear of the unknown and my own insecurities as to my AD/Exchange knowldge. Also, I have a 2yr old son and another on the way. That makes things doubly scary. If this were 5 yrs ago, I wouldn't think twice about jumping. I wouldn't have even read the handbook. However, thanks to you guys and some inner searching, I've decided to accept the job. Its more money and it gives me finanical and consulting experience to put on a resume. Right now, I've been working for a large liqour distributor which doesn't really excite future employers. Plus I've been there for 3yrs and sometimes I think there is a sucipscion in the IT world if you've been with one employer for too long. My only lingering fear is, I'm nervous that if I do nothing but AD/Exchange(however much I love that stuff), my cisco,linux,etc knowldge will disappear due to lack of use. Is this a legitimate fear? Or is this the deal you have to make? Choose something and try to know it inside/out to the disregard of everything else? I suppose you can only go so far as jack of all trades and master of none? I should choose one or two technologies and study them to the exclusion of all others and just rely on the cisco guy for routing or vlan issues and the linux guy for bind and apache stuf,etc? I don't know. Thanks a lot guys. You were a huge help and I'd be lost without you! -------------------------- Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld (www.BlackBerry.net) List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
