> Is this a legitimate fear? Well I guess it depends. Are you the type that only works on tech stuff when you are at work? Or do you have a full lab set up at home with multiple machines configured to do various things and build it up and tear it down as desired? One isn't better than the other but it will tell you what you can expect will happen with your skills.
If you only work on things technical in nature at work, then whatever you do at work will steer what you do and know and learn. This is by far the majority of the IT workers out there. If you work on tech things at home and spin up multiple machines or now a days multiple virtual machines and you have domains that spin up and disappear depending on what day it is or what you are wondering about at the moment, the work you do for a company doesn't impact much what you will be learning and doing at home because that is all up to you. Certainly anything you don't work on or play with regularly will dim to some extent in your memory. It may not go completely away but you certainly won't be as proficient when you are sitting there at the keyboard with it. Me personally, I play with new and cool stuff far more at home than I do at the office. I would easily say most of my knowledge and understanding comes from mocking things up at home and wading into the pubic newsgroups and this list and getting on the various betas for things and playing with the new stuff as it hits. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kern, Tom Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2005 3:39 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/
