On 2/28/12 8:23 PM, Ski Kacoroski wrote: >> From: "Tom Perrine" <t...@lopsa.org> >> To: "Lopsa Discussion" <discuss@lists.lopsa.org> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 1:48:39 PM >> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] at least five computer-related education paths, >> according to ACM >> >> I saw this come across another mailing list and thought I should >> share: >> >> https://www.acm.org/education/curricula-recommendations >> >> ACM recognizes five distinct computer-relation degree paths, which I >> guess could correlate to different flavors of SW dev and IT. >> >> I think that my career path started as Computer Engineering (I have >> an >> Engineering degree in Computer Systems Engineering), but through the >> years I've morphed through OS development to operations, to research, >> back to operations and now architecture definition. >> >> What was your career path, and does the ACM taxonomy match or relate >> to your experience? > > So looking that this, the IT 2008 curricula is the closest to what I > would consider System Administration. As for me, I am a self taught > system admin as my background is in Physics. I started out as a > manufacturing R&D engineer who kept fixing computers on the side and > it grew into a full time career. > > cheers, > > ski
I have an Economics degree, and I got into system administration hands-on as a student assistant in college. Economics taught me that a graduate degree in Econ isn't economically viable. I'm currently earning a Masters in Building Construction to augment my IT facilities management duties. I get one free class per semester, working for a university. I'll finish next year, about 10 years after I started the program. When hiring sysadmins, I prefer experience over formal degrees because there are so few opportunities to study system administration, as opposed to programming or PC chip design. Allan _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.lopsa.org https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
