FSF looking for Sys Admin

Christopher Schmidt crschmidt at crschmidt.net
Thu Dec 16 07:26:01 EST 2004


On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 10:19:23PM -0500, Greg Rundlett wrote:
> The Free Software Foundation is looking for a GNU/Linux Sys Admin.  
> http://www.fsf.org/jobs/fsf-sysadmin.html
> 
> This has been open for a little while, but I don't think it is filled 
> yet (page still exists).  The pay seems a bit low, especially in 
> Cambridge, but I don't know what a Sys Admin should earn.  But heck you 
> get to work with Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen!  That plus 17 paid 
> holidays should make for a Happy Gnu Year.  :-)

You people all complain about low pay, but it still pays 1.5x as much as 
I'm getting for doing sysadmin+coding work at my current job. Maybe I 
should look for something different...

(Then again, not many programming jobs are five minutes away, have an 
in-office mike and ike dispenser, a foosball table, and a MAME-based 
stand up arcade machine...)

More to the point, I'm lacking the undergraduate college degree they're 
looking for, and probably have a bit less experience as a sysadmin than 
I'd be expected to. Unfortunate, since it looks like something that 
would be really cool other than that.

Does anyone have any experience with hiring, such that they could tell 
me how screwed I am if I ever leave my current job, since I dropped out 
of college to take it? At the moment, I'm quite happy, and planning on 
resuming studies (although not full time) relatively soon to finish a 
degree, but if I were to quit my job today and start looking, how 
difficult would it be to move into some IT or programming (mostly web) 
position given a lack of degree?

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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