If you get hit by a truck, Rachel, the company might
survive, but I doubt your junior DBA would.... :)
- Rachel Carmichael <carmichr_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
> Sean,
>
> Great question, especially since I was nagging, er,
> lecturing, er,
> discussing this same point with a friend just last
> night (he knows who he
> is)
>
> And the answer is, as with everything Oracle, "it
> depends".
>
> Depends on:
>
> 1) your internal sense of responsibility
> 2) your tolerance for guilt (internally or
> externally generated)
> 3) your belief that the company will fall apart if
> you don't do everything
> everyone asks immediately
> 4) whether or not you are getting paid by the hour
> 5) how sure you are of yourself and your ability to
> get another job
>
> for me, I have an overdeveloped sense of
> responsibility, a Jewish mother so
> I guilt very easily. I know, as another friend has
> told me,
> that there is only one DBA job in the world and I
> have it, and if I don't do
> everything that everyone wants, they'll get rid of
> me.
>
> Seriously.... you say "I'm going home". You remind
> yourself that the world
> will not end if something is done tomorrow, not
> today. You get them to get
> you other people so you can take turns being on
> call.
>
> And you remember that if you should get hit by a
> truck, the company will
> survive.
>
>
>
> >From: "O'Neill, Sean" <Sean.ONeill_at_organon.ie>
> >Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
> >Subject: DBA - Job boundaries & perks
> >Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:39:09 -0800
> >
> >How do you protect your "private life" time from
> your role of DBA?. Do you
> >have formalised detailed job contracts with your
> employer covering such
> >issues?. What perks/incentives do you receive for
> going that bit extra or
> >being on call "just in case". Do you get to take
> your holidays or is that
> >a
> >ficticious clause in your job contract?. It seems
> to be that DBA's are
> >expected to "be there" whenever required, but heck
> there is life outside
> >Oracle DBAing (for some of us at least I hope!).
> I'm not griping here, as
> >I
> >know there is usually satisifaction in resolving
> problems and recovering
> >the
> >database if required yada yada yada.
> >
> >Sean :)
> >
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> who never does anything.
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