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Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.
From: Anton Kapela <tkapela () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 21:26:09 -0600
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Tyler Haske <tyler.haske () gmail com> wrote:
I'm looking for a mentor who can help me focus my career so eventually I wind up working at one of the Tier I ISPs as a senior tech. I want to handle the big pipes that hold everyone's data.
Replying on-list, as I think a route for this desired target can be neatly summarized (oh, networking term!) in the following list: 1) be 2) do 3) have First, start by being the sort of person that might work at these places. Don't know how or who they "are?" -- meet a few, interview them, ask about their life, attent NANOG (student rate: $100/meeting) and have a drink or three with them, etc. Next, do the things they do--this may take a while. Finally, you can 'have' whatever they are having once you've traversed 1) and 2), assuming there's a spot on the far-side of this bet. You can thank Janet Plato (a great ex-Ann Arbor/ANS person) for this method. I hope she doesn't mind my paraphrasing here. Best, -Tk
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- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Tyler Haske (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. bmanning (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Jared Mauch (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. jjanusze () wd-tek com (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Mark Foster (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Tyler Haske (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Bill Stewart (Nov 30)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Tyler Haske (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Keegan Holley (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Matthew Petach (Nov 22)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. JC Dill (Nov 25)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. bmanning (Nov 21)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. David Swafford (Nov 22)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Jeff Richmond (Nov 26)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Valdis . Kletnieks (Nov 26)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. Quinn Kuzmich (Nov 26)
- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. bmanning (Nov 26)
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- Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. joshua sahala (Nov 30)