Re: [PLUG] Jobs with Work-Life Balance??

[Julien Vehent <julien@linuxwall.info>]

Any 24/7 system in your environment ?
I manage public facing websites, and I can guarantee you that $boss 
doesn't care if it's sunday afternoon or monday morning when the 
database crashes (and he shouldn't). My company is not big enough to 
have rolling on-calls schedules, so we fix the emergencies when they 
arise.

On 23.09.2011 14:53, William Bilancio wrote:

> I disagree. I am a single admin at a medium sized Civil Engineering
> company in the Princeton NJ area and I have a happy balance of work 
> and
> life. I have over 100 users and 5 offices in the tri-state area. I
> maintain over 2 dozen servers and over 150 desktop units. All a mix 
> of
> windows and Linux.
>
> It is possible to have both a work life and a family life and not 
> have
> either one cut into the other. It's how you chose to work and manage
your
> time when you are at work and play.
>
> William Bilancio
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> On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Julien Vehent wrote:
>
> > Time for a change, it seems.
> >
> > Sysadmins don't work 40 hours a week, that's bullshit. Maybe you can
> > manage that in a really big institution, but if you're part of a
> > small
> > team, you have to include late hours and occasional week ends.
> >
> > The real question is: do they compensate you for that ? I find that
> > working from home is a nice compensation, but that doesn't replace
> > the
> > satisfaction of a decent salary.
> >
> > On 23.09.2011 14:37, Matt Berlin wrote:
> >
> > > Not while there are Admins that don't have families and will work
> > for
> > > the same pay.
> > >
> > > Matthew Berlin
> > >
> > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Dan Perez wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, I'm just a little stressed out and need to blow off a
> > > > little
> > > > steam. Are there any unix/linux admin jobs out there with a good
> > > > work
> > > > life balance? I've been getting killed in my job for years and
> > > > years
> > > > now. But, at least, I had the option of working from home once in
> > > > a
> > > > while and my supervisor was a little flexible about hours.
> > > > However,
> > > > we just got reorged and the work load is not going to go down but
> > > > the
> > > > working from home and all has been killed. Argh!
> > > >
> > > > Is it possible to achieve the dream of doing unix/linux work and
> > > > spending time with the family?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
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