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rhfrommn
One other thing I didn't mention last post. I've never in over 10 years of Unix work had a job where I didn't have to be on-call at least part of the time. So if you can't stand the idea of having to carry a pager/cellphone/blackberry and drop everything to respond if it goes off that would be a big roadblock too. I've had to leave church, cut short dates, or come home early from sporting events due to pages before. That's part of the job unfortunately. Either that or just sit at home at all times when you are the on-call person.
Usually that responsibility rotates among the team of admins, so you may end up with a day a week or a week each month or something like that. If it is a tiny shop with only 1 or 2 admins you may be always on-call, but for small shops like that typically there aren't that many servers so pages are pretty rare. The other extreme is giant shops with dozens of admins where you don't have to be on-call because some people are always at work to handle things.
Thanks for the info. Yeah, I wouldn't mind being on call. I mean, as long as long as I'm not on call all the time I'm fine with it. A few days a week would be fine.
As far as working at night, the way you described things is more what I wouldn't mind doing. The thing I was worried about was working night shifts everyday for the rest of your life. If I can get away with only having night shifts a couple times a week / month I'm absolutely fine with that.