OK delete if you don't want to hear it - but I want to chime in on the age vs hunger thing.
I graduate at an older age than many, worked at a software shop for a few years, and then spent 9 years in a university environment where I was doing more lab management than anything else - purchasing, budgeting, supervising students, day-to-day sysadmin tasks but not the really interesting stuff. It was partially a hunger to do more tech that led me to switch jobs, and that put me at an older age with 10+ years experience looking for a junior position. EXACTLY the sort of person you are ruling out. I had a lot of years but I really only had junior experience. It was a great job in other ways: wonderful team, great work-life balance (had my daughter while I was there), and I loved teaching the students, so I don't regret doing it, but I spent the next decade having to *explain* it. In retrospect I should have just changed the dang job title to CS Dept Lab Manager. Let me urge you to look at the whole person and not weed out just based on age and number of years. For every person who has spent ten years doing a junior job because they are just slow, there may be two others who had other reasons for being there. Anyway - happy to look at your job posting if you want to send it here, or post a pointer to it. Maybe we can find a way to improve it. Also - I would try to find out what the market is like in your particular local area. See if you can find out how other people in your town are doing with SA hiring. And consider expanding your search to other geographic areas . _______________________________________________ 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/
