12-31-2009
Do you have any friends or family in the field? If you do I would suggest asking them about their jobs. Ask about what they like/dislike, the skills required, etc. Another thing I would do is look up the various computer related jobs and then read up on some of the job functions. For example if you are looking into what a Network engineer does, read up on the basics of routing and switching. For programming, learn a little bit of a simple programming language like BASIC.
I am a systems administrator and what I do is manage the day to day operations of our servers. I work with several other system administrators doubled up as help desk techs at one of our many sites in a 24x7 environment. Some things I do on the job is shell scripting and light perl programming, user account management, fix problems users have, manage backups, periodically check servers for hardware and software problems, assist support vendor engineers and developers with installations, occasionally install updates, write documentation, and other things. I enjoy the challenge of figuring out those weird problems that occasionally pop up, the satisfaction of seeing my scripts in action, and helping users (the appreciative ones anyway). I don't enjoy having to work a non-normal schedule 2/3 of the year.
I hope this helps.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
qorder
qorder(1B) PBS qorder(1B)
NAME
qorder - exchange order of two pbs batch jobs in a queue.
SYNOPSIS
qorder job_identifier job_identifier
DESCRIPTION
To order two jobs is to exchange the jobs positions in the queue or queues in which the jobs resides. The two jobs must be located at the
same server. No attribute of the job, such as priority is changed. The impact of interchanging the order with the queue(s) is dependent
on local job scheduled policy, contact your systems administrator.
A job in the running state cannot be reordered.
OPERANDS
Both operands are job_identifiers which specify the jobs to be exchanged. The qorder command accepts two job_identifier operands of the
form:
sequence_number[.server_name][@server]
The server specification for the two jobs must agree as to the current location of the two job IDs.
STANDARD ERROR
The qorder command will write diagnostic messages to standard error for each error occurrence.
EXIT STATUS
Upon successful processing of all the operands presented to the qorder command, the exit status will be a value of zero.
If the qorder command fails to process any operand, the command exits with a value greater than zero.
SEE ALSO
qsub(1B), qmove(1B), pbs_orderjob(3B), pbs_movejob(3B)
Local qorder(1B)