sorry - that should be: you are a lucky man.
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Ed <[email protected]> wrote: > LOPSA is about as far as I am willing to let it go. > > On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Yeah...this kind of question might stir up more sides if it were posed to a >> list that wasn't LOPSA.... Since, isn't one of the reasons we belong to >> LOPSA >> is that we want this to happen. >> > > Your problems are not going to be solved by joining an extortion cult > (although it does sound like you would make a perfect candidate). Your > organization is fucked up - a few union cards will not fix it - it > will make it worse. > > Your IT group obviously has zero support at the C-level. Until they > get interested in you, your problems will not change. enjoy! > >> Being the professional that I've been and try to still be...I would like to >> see some kind of structure that says just who can work as a system >> administrator. Its scary working in edu, the people that get to play system >> administrator...considering that here we work with systems and data more >> sensitive than I had to deal with when I was working on the outside (first >> for >> a defense contractor and second for commercial software company). There's >> HIPPA data in our DC, but the response is its noisy in the DC and the people >> that need to know couldn't hear you. Though we are building an isolated >> cluster for PCI-DSS....sort of...there's only two SANs (prod and not, where >> 'not' includes the netbackup disk staging pools)....and no data >> classification >> within, yet. FERPA is this annoying thing that we know we're violating, but >> nobody cares as long as nobody complains (and the one guy that does...they >> keep asking when's he going to retire....they threw away his mainframe, but >> being one of the few people with administrative tenure...they couldn't make >> him leave with it). There's other compliance issues, but since only PCI-DSS >> is the one that's threatening to hurt at the moment, its the one with the >> most >> attention. Even though most of the entities that care, have outsourced (so >> its largely a problem for the IT security and compliance group to deal with.) >> > > If you point this out to your organization, you may find yourself > sharing an office with mr. mainframe. > >> The other day...a developer asked, "what's a good crash course in system >> administration book?" A few months ago, the director of his unit asked if we >> would take him on as an SA intern. He's available immediately and >> indefinitely.... is he so highly regarded in his own department that he's >> available to us this way? Yes, we have openings...but its so hard to find >> good people that'll work for what we'll pay. Though they've complained that >> its my fault that I accepted such a low pay when I started, that it hard to >> find people like me that'll work for less than what I'm getting. Well, he's >> being reassigned to their application system administration group....only >> because AA group would sound worse than ASA group.... though for some reason >> they get full sudo on their boxes, though the current ones...know they have >> it, but don't seem to know how to use it (even after we tell them how they >> could do some of the things themselves with it.) Though it worries me that >> someday they'll have somebody that doesn't know enough to not try breaking >> things.... >> > > You have found a home... > >> Though I wonder if we'll get to the day where we won't need a license to >> drive >> anymore, because the car will do everything on its own.... I want that. >> > > Have fun at Kansas State, your a lucky man. > >> On 11/12/2011 1:21 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- >>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Kern >>>> >>>> Please note that I am not talking about certification. I am talking about >>>> creating a License to Practice. >>> If something like this comes about, it doesn't bother me, really. The only >>> professions that don't require a license to practice are ones in which >>> nothing amazingly valuable is at stake, or it's just so new or so small >>> that nobody's been able to create such regulations yet. >>> >>> You have to be licensed (or certified) to practice law, give financial >>> advice, build a house, cut down a tree, practice medicine, drive a taxi. >>> >>> Obviously, flying >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
