[PLUG] Once again Linux has proven to me it is good for the career

Mike Cherba mcherba at gmail.com
Fri Mar 23 14:37:07 UTC 2012


Congrats man!  That sounds like fun work to do.  It's always nice to see
that sort of time and energy commitment pay off.
                   -Mike

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us>wrote:

> A flip of Kirk's recent rant.
>
> Sometime around 1994 or 1995 I replaced the SCO Unix and Novell Netware
> at home with a network of Linux machines. Used them to learn the back
> end of all the fundamental services:  firewall, DNS, NTP, SMTP, SNMP ...
> Then whenever a problem came up at work that required the skill I knew
> more than my coworkers and got to have fun and make money. Bosses liked
> this and so did I.
>
> Today I received a call from HR.  The internal transfer I applied for?
> We'd like to offer you the job.
>
> I'm getting to move on to intensely interesting work - fraud detection.
> Skills and experience gained through Linux systems were a key factor
> in getting the job.  Having a home lab of three physical machines was
> a asset in the manager's eyes.  He especially liked the comment "When
> learning I need a lab where I can break things."
>
> A small part of the job will be managing an infrastructure of scores
> of servers.  A big part will be analyzing traffic, malware samples,
> and figuring out fraudsters new techniques so we can continue to block
> their efforts.
>
> It's all built on a foundation of skills acquired by running a network
> of Linux boxes at home.
>
> --
>            Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
> Fortune Cookie Fortune du jour:
> I refuse the iPod because it is an audio bubble that shuts you off from
> the world,
> which is where good ideas come from.
>        ~  Garrison Keillor
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