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Re: New Oracle DBA career outlook

From: Josh Stein <princejoshua2001_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 24 Jun 2002 06:35:36 -0700
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Hi everyone,



Recently I received several entry level job offers right out of
college. My Top 3 choices are Info Security Specialist in a Big 5
consulting, other one as an Oracle Developer/DBA in financial industry
and the third one as a Java Developer all in the Midwest. (I am about
equally interested/experienced in all 3.)
 


As this is an Oracle forum, could you cast your opinion on a possible
Oracle DBA/Developer career VS. the other 2 mentioned. From what I
have read in this and other forums, the main pros and cons of an
Oracle DBA career path are:
 


Pros:
 





Cons: 
 


    
  
  •   relatively tight Oracle market/relatively high number of Oracle IT
professionals/expertise available on the market
 
  
  •   the tendency of Oracle to simplify DB administaration with every
new version, thus descreasing the need # of highly paid DBAs req in
the future
 
  
  •   Newer overall strategy for companies to decrease the # of DBs in
the enterprise to a smaller amount but larger DBs.
 
  
  •   Elison's vision of enterprises outsourcing their storage to Oracle
or other ASPs
 





-etc.
 


All opinions will be aprecialted.
 


Joshua








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