Re: Database Administration Career Choice

Quentin Hardge wrote:

> I am considering a career in database administration or closely
> related computer field. Does anyone in this group has some helpful
> hints or suggestions? I have a 4 year engineering degree, a licensed
> professional engineer, and am now majoring in Database administration
> at a local community college. Also I am studying French and hope to
> become fluent enough to work in a French speaking country. My native
> language is English.

<harsh>
This is about the worst time in recent history to want to be a DBA. There are a lot of very skilled developers, far more knowledgeable, than you that will get first crack at these jobs. And there is an ever increasing pool of them too.

I would suggest that if this is your goal you set your sites on either PL/SQL developer or UNIX sys admin. And then make the move, if you can, in 5-7 years.
</harsh>

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