"I guess I am only 23 but I don't want to become labelled as a DBA and therefore someone who cant program or develop to save his life."
I think Padraig's attitude is sensible. As Robert A. Heinlein said, "Specialization is for insects." The trick is to find a boss who is happy to allow us to be generalists but pay us the wages of a specialist.
I have one piece of advice for Padraig: most managers looking for somebody to work in an IT role will plump for somebody who actually knows their own age over somebody who can only guess at it.
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Maybe Padraig should get a job in Oracle engineering :-)
As for me, although my business card says 'Architecture Specialist', I consider myself a Generalist (know a little about lots) so I'm really confused.
"DBA and therefore someone who cant program or develop to save his life"
Hmmmmmpfh, Padraig needs a reality check! Most dbas do indeed have a coding background and still code a lot. Maybe he's been ill-advised on what dbas really do... ;-)
>> although my business card
>> says 'Architecture Specialist'
Does that mean I can tap you for free advice about my loft conversion?
Cheers, APC
I always figured that specialisation is knowing more about less.
Personlly I try to be a generalist who specialises in troubleshooting application server issues, which is a generalism by design ;). Although I cry out to the world that I don't do any development anymore, I tend to find myself writing and debugging scripts every day.
Being a DBA is not a job, it's a calling and I sure as hell like it. I'm far from being a guru (even though I might make it according to the burleson rules)
I never realized anyone actually read my postings! Sorry if I offended you noons, I understand a lot of DBAs come from development backgrounds and are more than capable of coding.
The statement I made about DBAs not being able to develop was more what I believe a lot of people think of DBAs.
Thanks for the advice on knowing (and not guessing) my age Andrew...I'll have to remember that one ;-)
no offence taken, Padraig. If it had, I'd have left a note in your blog! :-)
Yeah, the RSS feed aggregators put together a lot of blogs from everyone. I make it a daily task to review the OraNA aggegator, as much as I can within the free time available.
There is always something interesting or useful there!
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