RE: Career Advice

Well, good, now that we have that cleared up. Don't get me wrong, I do like your keen sense of humour and sarcasm - when I know you're joking and at times its hard to tell.

I've hesitated to learn Perl - don't know why, but now I find I have to know it to do my job better, esp when I'm working with Oracle. Shell programming is also getting lots of attention from me. I worked with PostgreSQL when it first came out and then I forgot about it.

Thanks for the insight.
Saira

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Mladen Gogala
Sent: December 17, 2003 2:34 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

>
> Or maybe you are trying to tell me to read between the lines...

I'm not. I was just kidding. I don't know any of this stuff (SAP, Siebel, Oracle Apps)
and I do make my living. Frankly, I don't like specialists, because they end up just like
pandas: no bamboo shoots, and they starve. Black bears and racoons are more to my liking:
they eat anything (one of my neighbors lost two cats when she moved from NYC to CT) and
thrive. Being an oracle DBA looked like a safe proposition just two years ago. Now I'm
doing lots of perl, some PHP, linux, samba, I started playing with PostgresSQL (cool stuff)
and I made oracle database just one among my skills. I'm quickly honing skills of a standup
comedian, too. Please, do not misunderestimate me. My career advice to you is: do whatever sells.

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