----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 8:08
PM
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] salary(OT)
Don't take it personally, and don't stop asking
questions: if you ask some good ones, the resulting discussions could help
many of us. I'm 39, been around computers my whole life, and I don't
know 10% what some of these guys know about AD.
Am I capable?
Who knows?
I've only been in IT for less than 4 years and I never owned a computer
until 6 years ago.
Everything i learned, i learned from screwing around at
home,books,websites, and most of all, lists like this.
I haven't lied or fluffed up my resume or past in anyway to employers, so
if they are willing to offer me positions, i can only assume i'm close to
capable....
I'm 36yrs old and I have a B.A. in English lit from NYU and as i said, no
computer experience until i was about 30. Before IT, i was in grad
school for english and working as a TA at Boston University.
I'm always upfront to employers about all of this.
They hire me and
seem to be pleased.
As to this list being a question sink, i've been a lurker on this list
for 2yrs and i admit i've sent a deluge of questions latlely, but only about
10% of them have been about my current position.
The other 90% have just been for my own curiosity.
Thats what happens when you don't know anyone else in your field and no
one at your place of employment is that knowldgable either.
If all i have is some software and a book, sometimes i'd like some human
feed back.
I apologixe for using this list as an endless fountain of info and i
promise to stop.
i know how hard you guys work and i'd love to buy you all a beer and a
shot.
As to having someone as experienced as you guys over me, I'd love
that!
That would be a dream job to apprentince under someone.
Unfortunately, when being offered a job for some $$$ and with 2 kids at
home, I'm not gonna say, "Thats really nice,but despite what you think,I'm not
really that experienced and the fact that after 2 months of consulting you
haven't noticed that, gives me some pause, so I'm gonna go somewhere else
where i can work under someone who knows AD and can teach me all i want so i
can at the very least leave those poor guys on the activedir list alone...".
I guess if i were in my 20's that would work but right now i can't say
no.
As to leaving you guys be, I'll do my best.
I'm sorry for all the questions.
I'll relax a bit.
Thanks for everything!
On 10/13/05, Brian
Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Just a thought for
you Are you really capable of being the lead engineer in the situation
your client and potential employer is in? This list has been a major
question sink for you, and I think several of us have worked very hard
answering all these questions. One thing you might find from a career &
knowledge development perspective is that you would really benefit from
working under someone who has the in-depth operations experience and AD
knowledge that some of us have here. This list has been your substitute for
that person in my opinion.
well,
i've been consulting for 2 months full time for a company and now they
want to make me an offer to work for them(yeah,i'm amazed
too..)
At
first it was a head/senior AD position but now they want to throw in
Exchange in the mix.
they
used to outsource all their windows infrastructure and during my tenure
there, they took it back so they have no AD/Exchange people.
This is
a 3000 user finanical corp in Manhattan.
my
question is, what kind of salary would one expect for a such a position,
taking into account the bussiness and location and
size.
