[CLUE-Talk] interesting home business article - from slashdot

[G. Richard Raab]

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On Saturday 26 July 2003 01:41 am, Evan Widger wrote:
> as for the school thing my original plan was to transfer to a 4 year school
> and get a bachelor's in computer engineering (cal poly's major combining
> what i'm sure are the hardest/best parts of computer science and
> electronics engineering) of course this was all planned back in 99 and 2000
> when the idea of job straight out of college was a reality and the
> certificates in web development i had might have made me some money. i
> personally agree with you on the MCSE being worthless, i studied for it
> when i was working at the computer store, along with studying for the A+,
> though neither would have increased my pay at that store they might have
> been stepping stones to better jobs in the future (Again, this was back in
> 99 and 00, so the idea wouldn't have been absurd back then) i never took
> the tests cause i thought it would be stupid to pay MS money so that they
> can add letters to your business card for things you already know you know
> and don't need them to OK you on it. (if that makes any sense whatsoever).
> as it is right now i realise how much i miss school and how much i really
> liked learning (i had the best teacher in the world for my perl class, he
> was awesome, real world problems(he was part sysadmin for the school's
> linux server 'gracie') and real world anecdotes about life as a programmer
> (he works (worked?) at agilent as a full time perl programmer)

Who was your teacher?

BTW, training is another area that you can go into, but it is hard to break
into. But if you write your own material and approach the right ppl, and
offer the right price, it is doable.

Here are some classes that you can look at;

here is a linux sys ad class that is about 65 % done that I taught at Avaya.

http://12.254.22.176/~rraab/LSA

This was started, but no where near close enough.
http://12.254.22.176/~rraab/PERL

Sadly, I was going to do a kernel class and wish I would have.


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cheers
g.r.r.
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