RE: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-24 Thread Sherry Lopata
Thanks for the tip. Have a great weekend! Sherry From: JoJo Al-Zawawi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER? Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 17:23:23 -0800 Hi Sherry

RE: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-23 Thread Farnsworth, Dave
career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER? Sherry, Sounds like good advice. There is no way of actually knowing, but I'm sure that the vast majority of DBAs on this list were systems- and applications-developers first. I still consider myself a C programmer first and foremost even though

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Mladen, You? Sarcastic? Never :) --- Mladen Gogala [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: O if you are enthusiastic and are adaptable and can express that to a prospective employer you might get into what you want. I think attitude My advice to those who want to become DBAs is that they

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-23 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2002.05.23 07:03 Farnsworth, Dave wrote: Or you can go straight into damagement. It requires no technical skills, no people skills and the innate ability to royally screw things up. Upon completion of screwing things up, leaving a mess for the DBA to cleanup, you then are promoted to a

newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread Sherry Lopata
Hi gurus, I have taken a few Oracle DBA courses at UCLA Extension, passed my first DBA certification exam, but have not been able to find an entry level position in this area. (My background is in printing and marketing... big career move... I've been told my timing is bad cause the job

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread Tim Gorman
Sherry, Sounds like good advice. There is no way of actually knowing, but I'm sure that the vast majority of DBAs on this list were systems- and applications-developers first. I still consider myself a C programmer first and foremost even though nobody cares about C anymore, and just about

RE: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread JoJo Al-Zawawi
Hi Sherry ! I understand that Washington Mutual often hires entry-level Oracle DBA's. Try them! Cheers, JoJo (Glendale, CA) http://www.jojo-zawawi.com -Original Message- Lopata Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 5:33 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Hi gurus, I have taken a

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread Mladen Gogala
On 2002.05.22 20:33 Sherry Lopata wrote: Hi gurus, I have taken a few Oracle DBA courses at UCLA Extension, passed my first DBA certification exam, but have not been able to find an entry level position in this area. (My background is in printing and marketing... big career move... I've

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread Peter . McLarty
:43 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject:Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER? Sherry, Sounds like good advice. There is no way of actually knowing

Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

2002-05-22 Thread Mladen Gogala
O if you are enthusiastic and are adaptable and can express that to a prospective employer you might get into what you want. I think attitude My advice to those who want to become DBAs is that they shouldn't be overly concerned if they feel a pang of enthusiasm: it will pass. Healthy