RE: Nature of Oracle-l has changed

Tanel Poder scribbled on the wall in glitter crayon:

> Tell me about it! I've had exactly the same experience about several
> years ago. Even though I was leading tech part of every critical
> project and was the contact whenever a serious problem occurred, the
> employer paid higher salary to all other team members because they
> were over 10 years older than me, they had 15 years of experience
> instead of my 3, but they couldn't do much more than standard
> database administration like adding data files and such with their
> "experience". That was quite frustrating... but no problem anymore,
> now I'm on my own and pay my own salary ;)
>
> Tanel.

the other fun thing is degrees. now i have none, nor an OCP [let's not go down that road again, OK?] so i don't even get interviewed for many jobs, and the ones i do i get offered less money. and this is despite my 15 or so years of experience as a DBA, and more as a developer and/or programmer. but i don't have that magic piece of paper.

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Bill "Shrek" Thater     ORACLE DBA      BAARF Party member #25
                william.thater_at_carrier.utc.com
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