Message-Id: <10717.125100@fatcity.com> From: WIlliam Thater Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 07:25:07 -0500 Subject: Re: DBA - Job boundaries & perks "O'Neill, Sean" wrote: > > 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 i'm supposed to have a private life? damn, obody told me. why am i always the last one to know? as for my contract, i'm on call 24x7x365 including holidays and vacations. i hope you don't work for a startup like me. i won't do it again, i was sold on the dream. i was stupid. and the only perks are that i get everybody else's cast of PCs and i get to do all my own tech support. -- Bill Thater Sr. ORACLE DBA Telergy, Inc thaterw@telergy.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein ----------------------------------------------------------------