Dream Job?

I would like to pose a question that I've been recently pondering. If one had the perfect opportunity to work anywhere they'd like as a system administrator where would that be? A shorter question would be better phrased: What company would be your dream job? A great resume addition, good pay and a excellent place to gain experience. The latter being the most important bullet point in my honest opinion.

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westward

erpadmin wrote: »

My dream job is to be a part time college professor during both my working years, and retirement when I'm 50+. It is my hope that I can do and finish my Masters within 4-5 years from now to make that possible.

Alternatively, I'd settle for being a librarian in retirement. (Another cake job...) Both of those would be "second career" moves so my mind doesn't lay in atrophy. I'm trying to see management in my first career. I would have to leave NJ to do either though, so that I can receive the pension check and a nice to decent salary.

Erp - do you honestly think their will be libraries then?! I suppose homeless people will still need a place to go to the bathroom, through. (family guy reference....)

Mishra

Interesting question. It's not really where I work, just what I do... I would say this would be my dream job (in IT only)

* Design entire infrastructures, let others do the implementation
* Solve business needs
* Innovate for the business
* 15% travel to interesting places
* Be able to be a free thinker

crrussell3

I would have to say a dream job would be working as a Systems Administrator at Blizzard or Bioware (as long as they gave free game subscriptions and let you play on your "down time" lol)!

Back to reality, as most said I want to be someplace where I make decent money to support my family and be able to have my hands into what I want.

gorebrush

Working for myself as a consultant = Dream Job.

I'm working for Logica at the moment, and while I thought it was going to be awesome and amazing, that was really far from the truth.

rfult001

Mishra wrote: »

Interesting question. It's not really where I work, just what I do... I would say this would be my dream job (in IT only)

* Design entire infrastructures, let others do the implementation
* Solve business needs
* Innovate for the business
* 15% travel to interesting places
* Be able to be a free thinker

This is how I generally answer the interview question "What is it that you want to do" or "Where do you want to be in x number of years".

Forsaken_GA

My dream job? Director of Network Operations (or whatever the equivalent job title would be for them) for Blizzard Entertainment.

I imagine I'll end up whoring myself out for Cisco at some point, though

PC509

Don't care where.

I would like to work in a data center in a place that lets me keep learning new things and gain experience.

Data center = all those beautiful servers purring like kittens, the lights blinking like Christmas... Ahhhhh. Nice.

Forsaken_GA

PC509 wrote: »

Don't care where.

I would like to work in a data center in a place that lets me keep learning new things and gain experience.

Data center = all those beautiful servers purring like kittens, the lights blinking like Christmas... Ahhhhh. Nice.

Yeah, it's glorious until the first time you find yourself having to unrack a 4u server that feels like it weighs a metric ton from the bottom of the rack (no rails, of course) so you can change out a dead hard drive. Being a lazlo loses it's appeal fairly quickly

VAHokie56

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

My dream job? Director of Network Operations (or whatever the equivalent job title would be for them) for Blizzard Entertainment.

I imagine I'll end up whoring myself out for Cisco at some point, though

Sounds like you just want to play WoW all day...

crrussell3

VAHokie56 wrote: »

Sounds like you just want to play WoW all day...

Don't we all wish we could play games all day long

(haven't played WoW for 3-4 years /twitch). Hell I am 30 going on 12!

VAHokie56

crrussell3 wrote: »

Don't we all wish we could play games all day long (haven't played WoW for 3-4 years /twitch). Hell I am 30 going on 12!

Yeap I have resigned from WoW myself...I do miss the drunk nights on vent raiding till 3am, fun times.

N2IT

gorebrush wrote: »

Working for myself as a consultant = Dream Job.

I'm working for Logica at the moment, and while I thought it was going to be awesome and amazing, that was really far from the truth.

+1 with the consultant piece.

Forsaken_GA

VAHokie56 wrote: »

Sounds like you just want to play WoW all day...

Oh, hell, I don't need to work for Blizzard to do that! I had to wean myself off of WoW to get serious again with my studies.

But yeah, I love Blizzard's products, and I'd love to work for a company who's products I believe wholeheartedly in.

Being able to go thwap someone in the head when they nerf paladins would be a nice bonus.

erpadmin

westward wrote: »

Erp - do you honestly think their will be libraries then?! I suppose homeless people will still need a place to go to the bathroom, through. (family guy reference....)

Fair point...the last time I went to a public library, it was to use their bathroom....

I suppose I could always shoot for a college library or something. I just want to do something in retirement that gets me a decent salary while still collecting my pension. I suppose I could just shoot for teaching, but at the college level and part time.

PsychoFin

I might soon land my dream job as I am intervoewing with Cisco and Juniper this week, and NetApp in two weeks. Exciting times!

I would love to own my own backpacking hostel n bar in my wife's native Philippines though!

Turgon

Mishra wrote: »

Interesting question. It's not really where I work, just what I do... I would say this would be my dream job (in IT only)

* Design entire infrastructures, let others do the implementation
* Solve business needs
* Innovate for the business
* 15% travel to interesting places
* Be able to be a free thinker

That would be my job mostly then. Places are not interesting and still some implementation lurking there, as well as rescue calls when things break until the cool stuff gets rolled out.

Pash

Turgon wrote: »

That would be my job mostly then. Places are not interesting and still some implementation lurking there, as well as rescue calls when things break until the cool stuff gets rolled out.

How do you keep yourself clued up on new technology and products consistently? I always wanted to know how pure infrastructure designers keep moving and if some of your job is attending new product launches and networking a bit.

Anyway, my answer is. Anywhere but services. I love creativity and being part of a team of creative s, I am not in to all this yes sir no sir bollocks that comes with managed services. The word "customer" almost makes me physically sick nowadays.

djfunz

I think I was just trying to get a good picture where someone as an aspiring systems administrator could get the best education at a fast level while still making enough money to survive. Some further qualities to this list would be a secure company with above average benefits and employee satisfaction. I might have phrased the question a bit incorrectly as some of the posts are a bit off topic, however I have a broader picture now than I did before.

A couple people have replied that they really enjoy NetApp. Is there anyone else that has some really good experiences working with some top notch companies?

I ask because I have a really promising contact that could influence me getting my foot in the door to a company of my choosing. A great training opportunity!

Bl8ckr0uter

Forsaken_GA wrote: »

Yeah, it's glorious until the first time you find yourself having to unrack a 4u server that feels like it weighs a metric ton from the bottom of the rack (no rails, of course) so you can change out a dead hard drive. Being a lazlo loses it's appeal fairly quickly

^Truth

Or finding yourself being the hands for some dude who (while very nice) didn't speak english well and having to use google translate on your phone to help you ask which unmarked pizza box in the noodle monster did he want rebooted lol.

Dream Job:

Well I want to be a Security consultant (SMB and Enterprise). I'd basically like to have a one stop shop as far as security is concerned (Blackbox testing, whitebox testing, audits, sales and support). Non IT dream job would be a DA or a judge or something political.

Mishra

Turgon wrote: »

That would be my job mostly then. Places are not interesting and still some implementation lurking there, as well as rescue calls when things break until the cool stuff gets rolled out.

Yeah, I've read some of your posts and you seem to point yourself to be on the design side. If you need an infrastructure engineer, let me know.

I mention 'interesting' but I really mean if I travel I hope it could be to constantly different places and. The dream would be to travel to different cities all the time and to be spoiled at bit when I do travel of course.

I definitely think appending a bit of implementation would still qualify it as a dream job.

PsychoFin

PsychoFin wrote: »

I might soon land my dream job as I am intervoewing with Cisco and Juniper this week, and NetApp in two weeks. Exciting times!

I would love to own my own backpacking hostel n bar in my wife's native Philippines though!

Just finished a humongous interview and received great feedback. One step closer!

kurosaki00

Right now I'm in a dream job
sadly I dont know if Ill be there 4 weeks from now, depends if they renew my contract or not

But I would like to be in a more security related environment
Like federal or health
really secure stuff

I would also would love to be a part of a "from scratch" project.
It would be amazing to lay down or help lay down the foundations for a tech building or project.

erpadmin

kurosaki00 wrote: »

I would also would love to be a part of a "from scratch" project.

"from scratch" equals "implementation"

[Not only does that sound better...that's actually the term for that.

]

MickQ

erpadmin wrote: »

"from scratch" equals "implementation"

[Not only does that sound better...that's actually the term for that. ]

And we all know how much nicer it is than cleaning up legacy systems

erpadmin

MickQ wrote: »

And we all know how much nicer it is than cleaning up legacy systems

That is someone's "dream job" (and my entire career...)