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Old 08-24-2012
Question Career in Unix

I need some advice regarding my career. I have been working for a major it company in a unix based support project. I have not learnt much in the 2 years except for basics in unix. I am really worried about my career thinking about what would happen next.
I always wanted to be a developer but i landed in a support job and ruined 2 years of my life.
What are the areas that i should concentrate to get a good job in unix? can you please tell me which positions will be there on unix side other than a developer?

Thanks in advance :-)

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 08-25-2012 at 07:14 AM..
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Old 08-24-2012
Surely you did more than just basic unix... any administration, installs?
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Old 08-24-2012
yes.. it was just more than basics.
Did installs(rdisting files and sql installs).
FTP activities.
Space monitoring on unix servers.
researching in the logs(transaction).
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Old 08-24-2012
Which Database Engine(s) do you know ?
Which Operating System(s) do you know?

Though I have just asked these questions, this is purely to gauge your current position.

In practice commercial products come and go, but the basic skills are portable. Just be prepared to convert.

I was once an acknowledged expert in Borland DBase II under MUCCP/M which was built on much experience with IDMS/X under VME/B. Strangely nobody has mentioned any of these product for a few years (lol), but the basic DBA skills were portable to Oracle on any platform.
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Old 08-25-2012
Administration and internetworking are areas that you could focus on, there continue to be openings in those areas. Do you have unix or linux at home and can delve into some of the examples and projects circulating the internet?
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Old 08-25-2012
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Originally Posted by methyl
I was once an acknowledged expert in Borland DBase II
Out of curiosity: wasn't that Ashton-Tate?

@Thread-O/P: If you want a career in software development, from what i read here you are in the wrong job. Get yourself training in a set of languages interesting you (but at any rate include C in this set, it will teach you invaluable things about computers and their programs) and also get training in the art of algorithmically solving problems. The books i can recommend wholeheartedly for the latter part are the TAOCP (The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth) and Robert Sedgewicks "Algorithms in C". Both phantastic books, which will be accompanying your developer career until its end. Knuth is in fact still teaching me something new every time i open one of the volumes of his book.

bakunin

Last edited by bakunin; 08-25-2012 at 09:57 AM..
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Old 08-25-2012
@methyl
I have worked on Oracle and DB2 database engines. Operating system is AIX.

@figaro
Thanks for the advice. Smilie yes, i have ubuntu installed in my laptop.I can dig into projects and understand the concepts but iam looking for a developer job right now.

@bakunin
I know that iam in the wrong job but iam not able to get a new job for my experience in the field. My profile/ resume suggests that iam currently doing a support job and people are under estimating me. They are not at all interested in my capabilities and the interview is going in the negative direction of proving me wrong.
I have good foundation in C and java and i have done numerous projects on them.(including IBM TGMC contest twice). I have confidance in programing any kind of requirement but just the people not at all interested in my resume.
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