eBay is looking for network heavies...

Sina Owolabi notify.sina at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 07:24:46 UTC 2015


I'm curious. What reading and comprehension level does one need to be
considered a network heavy? No snark, I really would like to know.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 6:01 AM Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net> wrote:

>
>
> On 11/06/2015 4:46 p.m., Alex White-Robinson wrote:
> > Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to
> >> have an appreciation of the past and how we got here,
> >> I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry
> >> have some challenges bringing new blood in--and
> >> treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with
> >> cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going
> >> to help us bring new engineers into the field to
> >> take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes
> >> give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud
> >> serial consoles anymore.
> >>
> >> Matt
> >> CCOF #1999322002 [0]
> > I've seen very little attention paid to junior talent in the last few
> > years, and know a few people who would have been talented engineers that
> > never got a chance to show it.
> > They moved into other industries because of the lack of junior roles.
> >
> > I know very few people in network engineering that are under thirty, and
> > not that many under thirty five.
>
> An interesting statement; both my current network engineering team
> members are under 35 (and one is under 30) - i'm actually on the hunt
> for a slightly more senior resource at the moment to take up a vacant
> Team Leader role, and the candidates i've had apply are generally in
> their 30's.
>
> But perhaps New Zealand is a different audience to the North American
> continent. Fair enough.
>
> My career started as a Network Junior and i'm keen to facilitiate
> opportunities to move upward for others who're in similar circumstances
> to that which I was in ~10 years ago, surely i'm not that unusual...??
>
> Mark.
>
>
>



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