To be somewhat fair to the recruiters, sometimes companies really are looking for some sort of digital McGuyver. The type of guy who knows just enough about everything to be able to save the company reactor from meltdown with a bit of BubbleGum::Wrapper in cooling_system.pl.

I work for a company of 130 who just won't hire enough IT staff. So, I am expected to be able to plan our SAN needs, keep our firewalls and other security systems up and running, make sure that mail gets through, and even debug an occasional piece of free software that stops working. And all of that is in my spare time when I am not being forced to write our Intranet in ASP/VBScript.

If the requirements seem unrealistic, it may just be that the job demands are unrealistic. Needless to say I have two more weeks here, and then I am out looking for something with alot fewer acronyms that start with MS involved.

In reply to Looking for Computer McGuyver by gnubbs
in thread Recruiters from Beyond by JSchmitz

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