Unix Jobs

[Warren Togami]

One of my goals in showing OSS to state private and public education is to
create a larger market for the Unix and OSS programming and support market.
I think the way the industry is moving, local schools and businesses will
*eventually* notice these things through normal their channels, but without
our advocacy this will not happen for 10 years.

As a first step I am deploying two KDE & Linux thin client computer labs,
with 50 donated computers and two powerful servers we got from the VA Linux
sale.  We are also deploying a Samba domain in production in one section of
the campus network.  Without these types of systems IN USE available for
demonstration, people cannot possibly take us and OSS seriously.  We need to
do our part to expand our own market, rather than just complain about the
lack of jobs and appreciation of our craft.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dusty" <dusty at sandust.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 1:02 PM
Subject: [luau] Re: Unix Jobs


> Aloha,
>
>    Sandi and I have recently returned to the island after taking advantage
of the opportunities for unix people on the mainland for the past few years.
Things move vvveeerrrrryyyyy sssssllllloooooowwwwww here.  I was told by one
company three months ago that they really needed to hire someone this week.
They then told me a couple days later that they wanted to hire me (for a
decent salary) and I have still been hearing from them that any day now they
want to hire me.  Unix jobs on the island are mostly a joke (no insult
intended, just reality) compared to the jobs we had on the mainland.  But we
moved back because we wanted to live here.  We actually quit great jobs to
move back just before everything went bad on the manland.
>
> If you have a secret or higher clearence then the gov't jobs can pay
pretty good (25% extra for being in Hawaii).  For two people with masters
degrees and close to ten years experience working with every box Sun has
made from IPC to UE10000 we have been offered positions paying $27k (to
maybe we could offer $50K) and asked numerous times why we don't have an
MCSE!!!!!!!  On the gov't side, if you have a clearence, you could get
$60-80k+.
>