Re: New Oracle DBA career outlook

I'm afraid you'll have to try several types of IT career paths until you find one that really interest you, one you have a passion for. Once you find your interest, you'll do well in it and the money will follow. So you may have to jump from job to job until you find your niche.

A DBA itself has several flavors and covers many areas from the development side to production side. A typical DBA can be a jack of all trades.

Just my 2 cents. Good Luck!

princejoshua2001_at_yahoo.com (Josh Stein) wrote in message news:<bff8e341.0206231525.78be00ce_at_posting.google.com>...
> 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.
>
> Josh
Received on Mon Jun 24 2002 - 22:24:24 CEST