eBay is looking for network heavies...

Thu Jun 11 11:05:00 UTC 2015

There is a good reason there aren't LOTS of "good" neteng in the 30-35 or
under 30 range with lots of experience.  Its call the hell we went though
for a while after 2000 working in this industry.  Many of us lost jobs and
couldn't find new ones.  I know talented folks that had to go to delivering
pizzas ( not to slag pizza delivery folks) to support themselves and their
families. Some folks ended up leaving the industry because of it and I'm
"sure" lots of people choose to no get into the field seeing no jobs.  This
type of event causes a whole that takes a long time correct.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Alex White-Robinson <alexwr at gmail.com>
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.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Matthew Petach <mpetach at netflight.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 7:57 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > [...]
> > >
> > > And this... is NANOG!
> >
> > Needs more ellipses and capitalization...more like
> >
> >
> > This...IS...NANOG!!!
> >
> > building up to a nice crescendo roar as you kick the
> > hapless interviewee backwards down the deep, dark well
> >
> >
> > 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]
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > [0] Certified Crufty Old Fart
> >
>