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Technology Stocks : Network Associates (NET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: AlienTech who wrote (2337)	4/7/1998 3:16:00 PM
From: Joanna Tsang	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6021

> Not sure I understand this, could you explain this in more detail with explinations? >Like to be an engineer dont you have to like study in college or have had special training and experience? Yes, but technologies change rapidly. To keep with the latest the employee, that employee has to be experienced enough to keep up with it on their own, or take a class. This company is not into spending money to train someone or send someone to class. You are expected to either pick it up on your own or get eaten up by the sharks. You are a very bright person if you lasted more than 2 years there. (Guess I wasn't too bright...I only lasted about a year....) Case in point: What if you were hired in as a NetWare person and your job switches and now you have to set up your own test Window NT network to do network performance testing and you don't have a clue about NT networks, for example. Hope that makes more sense. BTW: Not everyone that gets hired there know everything there is to know about viruses or even how the OS works. I certainly didn't know anything about MBR's in DOS until I came to MCAF. (I was a "NetWare/networking expert".) > I mean you cant take a janitor and expect him to do the same job do you? Well you can but how long will that last? I don't think that person would have last that long at NETA, if s/he was even hired at all, unless that person writes viruses on the side in his/her off-hours and set up his own Windows NT/NetWare network in his own basement or something (therefore, getting the experience.) And why would a person wanna be a janitor if s/he can setup NT networks...but that's another matter... :-) > ps. I think you will have to wait till retirement on that house. INTC is going to tank this week... Yeah, I figured that much...and I just got killed in taxes this year because I don't own a home and I'm married too. :-( Cheers, Joanna