[TriLUG] Not Linux: Anyone else feeling the pain?

[Dave Sorenson]

Since I was mentioned by name 8-)

Average at the community college I'm at is 45-50 hours a week... some 
weeks more some less. During registration/ first 3 weeks of class much 
more, middle of summer semester much less, but is a good time for 
projects. Also have a crackberry leash and am the on call guy if things 
go horribly wrong. Fortunately I have things pretty well in order here 
so much of what happens more frequently I can handle remotely. I usually 
end up having to race in only 1-2 times a year. (The Windows Admins are 
in closer to once a month... Thank you CentOS!)

Weekends are pretty free except for keeping the crackberry close. If you 
have more than 1 person that can do admin duties you have a lighter on 
call load.

Nice thing about being the only guy is you do get to experiment and 
learn a lot of esoteric stuff.. Perk in my book.

Fun places to work if you can deal with professors as users..

Dave

James Tuttle wrote:
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>> Wow.  Is that for larger public universities?  Almost every medium to 
>> small higher-ed institution with which I've been involved totes more the 
>> 60+ hour workweek.  Granted, it's 40 hours + gotta-get-this-project-done 
>> + this-is-really-interesting, but most technologists I know in academia 
>> spend considerably more time that 40-45 hours/week.
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> I should have qualified that.  I know people in larger universities.
> Maybe Kevin Otte and Dave Sorenson have opinions to share on this topic.
>   I'm not sure if sticking around because you find something interesting
> counts.  I work some weekends and evenings but wouldn't consider it a
> necessary part of the job; I'm just satisfying my own curiosity, usually.
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>> On the other hand, it might also be the split between the administrative 
>> and academic sides of campuses.  I will note that the administrative 
>> side seems to be ... better able to shelve the job at 5p and on the weekend.
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> Perhaps so.
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>> Kevin
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