Hi Sean,
I've done voluntary work in the past, but that time is
over, now it's you want/need me afterhour you pay me.
Like Rachel said, the company will survive without
you.
A solution is to have kids, DBA with kids usually
leave earlier (I'm not saying kids are less work !)
Small shops, with only 1 or 2 dbas, usually abused
them. In big shops, things are more straight :
overtime pay, someone to replace you, day team/night
team,....
- "O'Neill, Sean" <Sean.ONeill_at_organon.ie> a écrit :
> How do you protect your "private life" time from
> your role of DBA?. Do you
> have formalised detailed job contracts with your
> employer covering such
> issues?. What perks/incentives do you receive for
> going that bit extra or
> being on call "just in case". Do you get to take
> your holidays or is that a
> ficticious clause in your job contract?. It seems
> to be that DBA's are
> expected to "be there" whenever required, but heck
> there is life outside
> Oracle DBAing (for some of us at least I hope!).
> I'm not griping here, as I
> know there is usually satisifaction in resolving
> problems and recovering the
> database if required yada yada yada.
>
> Sean :)
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