Good afternoon to the list, My name is Tyrell, and I just moved to Portland from Reno, NV a couple of weeks ago; I'm still trying to settle in, finding jobs and a home and such. In Reno, I went to UNR for Geography, but that school didn't offer much in the way of what I was looking for (Geographic Information Systems), and so I came up here on the hope of getting residency and then getting into the GIS program at PSU.
While GIS is largely dominated by the Windows-only ArcGIS suite, server and networking technologies largely surround the use of infrastructure based on Linux and Unix, and I can't imagine it being a BAD thing trying to build up some IT experience before finishing school and entering the job force in my "Real" field of study. Further, I have been using Linux as my primary operating system for the better part of a decade, and wouldn't mind expanding my knowledge of it, even if just as a hobby. Most of my experience is in Fedora, but I have dabbled in Debian/Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Mac OS lightly here and there; I would LIKE to think that I'm fairly decent at system administration, but I'm a far cry from the gurus I'm used to seeing in the Reno Linux User group, and I'm equally certain that people on this list can show up many of the people in Reno... I would love to expand my knowledge in general, and maybe get a job as a result. SO, here's the question: RHCSA is a $400 test; RHCE is another $400. Is it worth it? And with CompTIA A+, those, and my experience building my own systems, how difficult is it to get a Linux job in these parts? Thank you all for your help Tyrell Jentink _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
