I wrote:
So what perks if any do you get for being called in on a Saturday?. The
longer I hang around in this DBA field the more it seems to be like a
"vocation" ;)
Rachel Replied:
>> From: "Rachel Carmichael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 13:07:08 +0000
>> Subject: Re: The DBA in the IS organization
>>
>>Perks for being a DBA? You jest.
>>
>>If you do your job right, and nothing goes wrong, they don't understand
why
>>they need you and why they pay you what they do.
>>
>>If something goes wrong, they get upset because why didn't you know it was
>>going to happen and fix it to begin with?
>>
>>Okay, for real: I get thanks from people when I make their stuff work
fast
>>(the best comment from a programmer was "Rachel, now it flies like the
>>wind!"), thanks from end users when I dig the data out for them or
>>straighten out the mess that the programmers made.
>>
>>And I like what I do.
Hhhhmmmmm. Rachel seems to me you've found your vocation in life ;)
I like to separate perks from vocation, unless of course they happen to be
one in the same!!!
Now back to my Oracle afternoon prayer book......
Sean :)
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