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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Information about Unix System Administration Post 302303020 by hpicracing on Wednesday 1st of April 2009 04:09:12 PM
Old 04-01-2009
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Originally Posted by rhfrommn
Unless you're working for a very large company which has on-site staff around the clock, you are working in a sense all the time since you can always be paged or called when there is a problem. Also, you will almost certainly be doing tons of middle-of-the-night and weekend work since you can't work on production servers during business hours. If you are interested in steady hours with little overtime Unix is NOT for you.

Salary varies widely. When I started about 10 years ago entry level unix admin jobs were in the 50-70k range. It is a fairly well-paying field and finding jobs is not terribly hard once you're established and recruiters/managers/other admins in your city know you.
Aw man... I didn't even think about the hours too much. I just assumed it would be regular working hours. I definitely want steady working hours though. I really would like to do something IT related though and Unix System Administration was like the closest I could find to what I want to do. Does anyone know any jobs similar I might be interested in with steady regular working hours? I was looking into web development too and that's the next closest thing to what I'm looking to do.
Thanks for the info!
 

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leave(1)						      General Commands Manual							  leave(1)

NAME
leave - remind you when you have to leave SYNOPSIS
[hhmm] DESCRIPTION
The command waits until the specified time, then reminds you to leave. You are reminded 5 minutes and 1 minute before the actual time, at the time, and every minute thereafter. When you log off, exits. The time of day is in the form hhmm, where hh is a time in hours (which can range from 0 through 11 or 0 through 24 hours), and mm is the number of minutes after the specified hour. If the value of hh is greater than 11 (24-hour clock time), the specified value is reduced by 12 to a new value in the range of 0 through 11, thus ensuring that the alarm time is always set to activate within the next 12 hours. For example, if hhmm is 1350 and the current time is 4:00 PM (1600), the 1350 value is changed to 150 and the alarm is set for 1:50 AM, nine hours and 50 minutes later. On the other hand, if it is 9:00 AM and hhmm is specified as 2200 (10:00 PM), the value used is converted to 1000 and the alarm is set for one hour later instead of 13 hours as specified. If no argument is provided, prompts with A reply of newline causes to exit; otherwise the reply is assumed to be a time. This form is suitable for inclusion in a or file. The command ignores interrupts, quits, and terminate signals. To get rid of it you should either log off or use giving its process ID. EXAMPLES
The command sends an alarm (a beep) to your terminal to remind you that you have to leave at 12:04 and reminds you that you are late at one minute intervals after 12:04. WARNINGS
The command checks to see if a user has logged out by checking the file every 100 seconds. If a user logs out and logs back in to the same tty before makes its periodic check, may not know that the user has logged out. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley. FILES
SEE ALSO
calendar(1). leave(1)
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