On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Stephan Fabel wrote:
On 07/31/2014 06:45 AM, Denise Adams wrote:
What I mean to tell you is that just having a national group that I
can ask questions to, listen in on relevant discussions to my chosen
career, and have a chance at joining Mentor-ships and extra training
is PRICELESS! And I would have never thought about Systems
Administration unless I had asked about what LOPSA was.
In the medieval ages in Europe, trade was learned as apprentice, until
you 'graduated' as a fellow; you then went out and learned what there is
to know, until you became a master in the craft, settled, and were
therefore eligible to take on apprentices on your own.
In this model, if you are a system administrator out 'in the wild', and
you're not part of a professional organization (a 'guild' in the above
metaphor...deja vu?), you are not only missing out, you are actively
hurting yourself; you can only grow so far with information, pretty soon
you need knowledge, wisdom and experience, and that is exactly where
this exchange of stories comes in that LOPSA can (and does!) provide.
I think this is a inportant point to look at
People who come out of academia start out with the assumption that they should
be part of a professional organization, it's what every successful person they
know has done, and the organizations probably provided some help along the way.
But Sysadmins are largely self-taught, and so they start out with the idea that
they can pick up whatever they need as they go, and so they don't think in terms
of "what org can I join that will help me"
David Lang
_______________________________________________
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/
