DBA's are the shit


my sister in law works for mossy nissan here in san diego.
They started her out at 51k year, plus she gets employee discounts on nissans....




she went to coleman college

 

not network admin...network engineer h:

 

yeah, i'd say DBA would be the way to go.

 

the DBA's at my company are f'n smart. we have both Oracle DBA's and SQL DBA's. I know these guys have to be making at least 80k. Knowing SQL is definately a good thing to know if you think you want to go that way...but you REALLY need to know it. you can kind of relate it to programming with the SQL statements that you need to write. When i had a SQL/Oracle class in college, i thought it was really fun. but that was the only class they offered, so i didnt try to pursue that.


network admin is really broad...guess it depends on the size of company you work for. like where i am (800 employees), we dotn have anybody with that title. we have network engineers, system engineers, desktop support, and helpdesk. we are all specialized in certain things. usually when you're at smaller companys, with smaller IT departments, you have network admin. network admin usually needs to know everything from routing and switching to building and maintaining servers

 

It really depends on the person. Because to me, what you just described sounds like a hell of a lot of fun (in the above quoted text).

DBA.... sounds like a mind numbing skewer my eyes out with hot pitchforks boring. Droning on and on about codeing and arrays and debugging some variables and .... that crap.

 

you need at least 5 yrs work experience as a low-mid level analyst working with databases
and you must know SQL, some network administration (for sql servers and such), and preferably what to do with data (such as web apps)

 

is 80k a lot? Damn I thought 80k in engineering field is nothing.

 

DBA is not engineering...and i said at least. i've never went and asked them how much they were making. but compared to how i know others get paid, i can estimate they are making 80k at minimum

 

ah, I thought they were nvm

 

I love networking and system administration. i hate database administration.

get some scripting/programming classes under your belt and very in depth knowledge of both Linux and Windows administration....then, just keep learning.