| I don't have a "traditional" college background. I went to school for exactly one semester out of high school, dropped out, joined the Army, and didn't go back seriously for eight years. So the learn-how-to-learn stuff I had already done. Problem solving...done it. I went to school to learn how to be a server monkey. I ended up being a switch/router monkey. Which is cool with me, becaue I greatly prefer it. Now, though still somewhat involved with the 50k ft view of WAN plumming (meaning, I talk about them, but haven't hooked a console cable up in some time) I primarily audit other peoples designs. It's boring as sin, but the pay is sweeeeeeeeet. =) Anyway, I spend my time figuring out which sub contractor can really pull off getting fiber into 100 buildings and cutover 249 chassis based switches with zero percent down time. Like I said.....boring. But no, there was no class I ever took on crush-n-run vs. slurry. Or how to cut a road, or how to create a truly non-blocking architecture for the core. It's all been OJT. I am most certainly *not* creating two-way domain trusts or creating NDPS brokers. Which is why I asked. Seems that most people I know went to school for nothing even related to what they end up doing. Sure, there are some jobs like PE that require, well....a PE. But I've known Mail Admins with Economic degrees and network managers with psych credentials. Interesting. |
