I was fortunate enough to do remote dba work for about 2 years, with
the databases being located up and down the east coast....
Too bad that company had massive layoffs, and I was one of the
casualties...
-Joe
- Kimberly Smith <ksmith2_at_myfirstlink.net> wrote:
> Well, my database will be in Oklahoma for the State of Kansas but
> Plano,
> Texas has the contract. Oh yeah, I am doing it from Vancouver, WA.
> But I
> still have to go to the office.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> WILLIAMS
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Yeah, does anybody know what happened to the new Internet concept
> of
> "location doesn't matter"? I thought by now I could be sitting at
> home
> taking DBA assignments all over the country, if not over the world?
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 11:44 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> > If you need a change of location, you can get one easier...
> OK, now I understand what you meant.
>
> I can testify to the relocation potential because I recently
> escaped the
> Silicon Valley rat race to come up here to God's country.
> Nevertheless, I
> still fantasize about rendering remote DBA support via a laptop
> with
> multi-band satellite connectivity from a log cabin while snowed in
> at 10,000
> feet. (Or while lounging in a hammock on some Carribean Ilse.)
> While I
> support servers 1000's of miles away, employers like to see you and
> hear you
> tapping on the keyboard. Working and living ANYWHERE is not so much
> a
> technical problem as it is an organizational, human relations
> challenge.
> Sigh...
>
>
> Steve Orr
> Still in Bozeman, MONTANA!!!
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 10:04 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Well, up until about a couple of years ago, that was very true from
> what I
> experienced... Now, perhaps it takes a bit more work, but there
> seems to be
> enough demand around for the time being..... Perhaps number 10
> should be
> rather:
>
> 10. If you need a change of location, you can get one easier than
> with other
> jobs.
>
> RF
>
> Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
> Oracle DBA Technical Lead
> CSX Midtier Database Administration
>
> The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's
> conscience can
> take his freedom away from him.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 12:04 PM
> To: 'ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com'
> Cc: Freeman, Robert
>
>
> > 10. So I can live where I choose.
> Oh really? How do you manage that?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 9:23 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Hey, I got five scampers running around right now.... youngest is 9
> and the
> oldest is *gasp* 16....
>
> 10 Reasons I became a DBA
>
> 1. So I don't have to mow my own lawn
> 2. So I don't have to change my own oil.
> 3. So I don't have to move my own furniture.
> 4. So I can have 5 kids and a wife.
> 5. So I can afford two NICE cars (well, mostly nice until the kids
> get to
> them).
> 6. So I can eat out every day if I choose.
> 7. One word, big screen TV (ok, three words).
> 8. Because it's cool.
> 9. Because I like getting paged at 3 in the morning to save
> someone's butt
> and have them owe me BIG.
> 10. So I can live where I choose.
>
> RF
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