Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

[Sina Owolabi <notify.sina () gmail com>]

I'm curious. What reading and comprehension level does one need to be
considered a network heavy? No snark, I really would like to know.

On Thu, Jun 11, 2015, 6:01 AM Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net> wrote:

> On 11/06/2015 4:46 p.m., Alex White-Robinson wrote:
> > Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com> wrote:
> >
> > > On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to
> > > have an appreciation of the past and how we got here,
> > > I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry
> > > have some challenges bringing new blood in--and
> > > treating it too much like a sacred priesthood with
> > > cabalistic knowledge and initiation rites isn't going
> > > to help us bring new engineers into the field to
> > > take over for us crusty old farts when our eyes
> > > give out and we can't type into our 9600 baud
> > > serial consoles anymore.
> > >
> > > Matt
> > > CCOF #1999322002 [0]
> > I've seen very little attention paid to junior talent in the last few
> > years, and know a few people who would have been talented engineers that
> > never got a chance to show it.
> > They moved into other industries because of the lack of junior roles.
> >
> > I know very few people in network engineering that are under thirty, and
> > not that many under thirty five.
>
> An interesting statement; both my current network engineering team
> members are under 35 (and one is under 30) - i'm actually on the hunt
> for a slightly more senior resource at the moment to take up a vacant
> Team Leader role, and the candidates i've had apply are generally in
> their 30's.
>
> But perhaps New Zealand is a different audience to the North American
> continent. Fair enough.
>
> My career started as a Network Junior and i'm keen to facilitiate
> opportunities to move upward for others who're in similar circumstances
> to that which I was in ~10 years ago, surely i'm not that unusual...??
>
> Mark.