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Re: newbie seeks career direction: become a DBA or DEVELOPER?

From: Mladen Gogala <mgogala_at_adelphia.net>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 05:58:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0046911D.20020523055834@fatcity.com>

On 2002.05.23 07:03 "Farnsworth, Dave" wrote:
> Or you can go straight into damagement. It requires no technical
> skills, no people skills and the innate ability to royally screw
> things up. Upon completion of screwing things up, leaving a mess for
> the DBA to cleanup, you then are promoted to a higher level damagement
> position with a pay raise.
>

Well, being a technically skilled expert helps even with the damagement There is a guy that I know,who was promoted to the damagement and then has
spent his days in vi editor and C++-compiler. Needless to say, he didn't do
very much for the rest of us, techies.

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