From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 24 17:47: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C495714E1F for ; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:47:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA07676; Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:45:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <379A5E27.667FAB09@gorean.org> Date: Sat, 24 Jul 1999 17:45:27 -0700 From: Doug Reply-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Gill Cc: Len Huppe , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please send replies to -chat, as we're pretty far out of -questions territory. James Gill wrote: > > -> The best education and certification program that I have ever > -> seen is taking > -> the > -> time to build your own client/server network at home with open-source > -> software. > -> You'll learn more that way, and develop some real useable skills. > -> > -> Go for it :) > > While I agree, how would you recommend I word that on my resume to ensure an > extra ten or fifteen grand? "Developed and maintained a _N_ client private user network using FreeBSD as the bastion host. Techniques utilized include Network Address Translation (NAT), firewalling, internal/external DNS and mail configuration, file and print serving (including windows and unix shared systems), and world wide web services. Machines are routed through a standard UTP ethernet hub." ... or words to that effect. That's actually not too far off the mark from what I really used. I also included references to contributions I've made to the project (as someone else suggested) and a copy of mergemaster and its man page as an example of my programming/system administration and documentation expertise. At the same time, when I was hustling for consulting business I often came across questions like, "What kind of certifications do you have?" from clueless clients. I was usually able to deflect them by pointing out that for what they needed me to do there really isn't any kind of certification, combined with a pretty convincing "I keep fixing it till it's right or your money back" guarantee (which I never had to deliver on). In the end though, I know I lost business because of it, and if I didn't hate microsoft so much I would have taken the MCSE just to pacify the stupid people. Ultimately I decided that the stupid people weren't worth pacifying, and about the same time I got the word on the availability of my current job so I jumped at it. Sometimes I'd still rather have my freedom, but then I look at the shiny new 4Runner in my drive way and money in the bank and I can console myself for "selling out." :) Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message