BSD certification.

[Terry Lambert]

Mooneer Salem wrote:
> I guess the only way you can avoid being artificial would be to order
> services at the candidate's place of employment (like servers) and
> randomly monitor how the box is administered throughout the year.

We call that "a resume", where I come from.

There's a reason employers tend to like experience more than
paper credentials, and will hire a 20 year veteran without even
a GED before they hire someone with a BS degree.

Everyone's always looking for a shortcut without "paying their
dues".

Paper credentials will get you a higher starting salary, when
you have no experience, all things being equal, but for system
administration, experience almost always counts more than the
paper credentials.

If I could stand doing the work, I'd probably be doing system
administration; system administrators often make more than
kernel engineers with equivalent years on the job.

Life's unfair; what're you going to do about it, though?

-- Terry