Comments on: Careers and Cheap Furniture – Some Assembly Required http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/careers-and-cheap-furniture-some-assembly-required/ Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence, and Other Cool Stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:33:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brent Ozar http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/careers-and-cheap-furniture-some-assembly-required/comment-page-1/#comment-7611 Brent Ozar Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:07:04 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2494#comment-7611 Just before I came to work for Quest, I was turned down for a job. During the interview, the interviewing DBA asked me how I'd build a SQL Server monitoring system. I said I wouldn't - I'd write a check to a vendor. No sense in reinventing the wheel when my time costs money too, and vendors have built great monitoring tools. That escalated into a philosophical discussion, and the DBA said he wouldn't hire anyone who wouldn't build his own tools. (facepalm) You're totally right about visibility, though. Building your visibility is about the only surefire way these days to insure your income. Just before I came to work for Quest, I was turned down for a job. During the interview, the interviewing DBA asked me how I’d build a SQL Server monitoring system. I said I wouldn’t – I’d write a check to a vendor. No sense in reinventing the wheel when my time costs money too, and vendors have built great monitoring tools. That escalated into a philosophical discussion, and the DBA said he wouldn’t hire anyone who wouldn’t build his own tools. (facepalm)

You’re totally right about visibility, though. Building your visibility is about the only surefire way these days to insure your income.

]]> By: SQLChicken http://www.made2mentor.com/2010/01/careers-and-cheap-furniture-some-assembly-required/comment-page-1/#comment-7472 SQLChicken Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:41:31 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=2494#comment-7472 Great points made. Nowadays the more the agile and knowledgeable a worker is, the more valuable they are (kind of a DUH statement, I know). In this economy people are being asked to do so much more than ever before and with the advent of social networking education is out there in droves so there shouldn't be an excuse to not be able to learn what you want. It basically comes down to the worker and if they're motivated enough to go that extra mile to better themselves rather than be stagnant and just fill the status quo (sp?). Great points made. Nowadays the more the agile and knowledgeable a worker is, the more valuable they are (kind of a DUH statement, I know). In this economy people are being asked to do so much more than ever before and with the advent of social networking education is out there in droves so there shouldn’t be an excuse to not be able to learn what you want. It basically comes down to the worker and if they’re motivated enough to go that extra mile to better themselves rather than be stagnant and just fill the status quo (sp?).

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