Re: Want to be a DBA? Be careful what you ask for.....

J Yang wrote:
>
> To all you experienced DBAs :
>
> What made you want to be a DBA? More money? More prestige? Why?
>
> I have been preparing to become a DBA for a long time. Occasionally the question
> would come to my mind : Why do you want to be a DBA? I can not seem to be able to come up
> with a convincing answer. And then the phrase would pop up : Be careful what you ask for,
> because you just might get it!
>
> It would be a heartbreak to realize what you spend so much time and effort to get
> is not really what you want! But by then it will have been a little too late to turn back.
>
> What's the big deal being a DBA? Any comment will be appreciated!
>
> - J. Yang

Well, of course, like most DBA's, I was drawn to that career option because that allowed me to help more people at a time...

But seriously, in my case it just arose from smaller decisions along the way. As a junior member of staff I found that Computer Graphics were already covered but they needed someone to cover a hierarchical Database system called System 2000. My role at that center already included installing and supporting various commercial software and so I just started installing and supporting database management systems too.

It was more interesting to support database management systems that statistical analysis packages and so there you are.... Received on Tue Sep 24 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST