>
> 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:
>
> - Histoty of high demand and slaries for Oracle DBAs
>
> - Oracle's leading role in the DB market
>
> - etc.
>
> 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
>
Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 17:01:11 CDT
