I've had many but the one that comes to mind the most was Greg, my first boss after college.
I bluffed my way through my first job interview. I didn't have hands-on experience as a Unix sysadmin, but I knew that's what I wanted to do. After being hired Greg realized that was more inexperienced that I had let on. He didn't freak out. He walked me through a lot of the basics of how to install SunOS (this was 1991) and let me take a Sun 4/330 home. By having a machine at home I was able to experiment and teach myself Unix. Why did I bluff my way through the interview? This was before PC-based Unixes (x86 BSD, Linux, etc.) so the only Unix machines were multi-thousand dollar way you had access to a Unix system was to have an account on a large Unix system that was shared with tons of other users or be at a school with enough $ for one of these new Unix workstations (Sun, DEC, etc). My college experience was all in VAX/VMS. It wasn't until my senior year that my university had their first Unix system but I had been reading Unix-related books for years. I knew it had more of a future than VMS. Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
