That's it, I'm never going to be a rich consultant working for one of the big 5.
While trying to come up with new acronyms to show value on pretty plain and old stuff, I though in using AaaS or, Administration as a Service.
In the talk that took place inside my head, that was an immediate hit. But, when my practical side asked "in what is that different from outsourcing", I simply told me to STFU and go read about what is "The Cloud". That, obviously triggered the term "Cloud Administrator" wish, it's just another way to put - a Rainman and, since I have zero chance of being mistaken for Tom Cruise (or Valeria Golino for that matter), I'm stuck at being the mental handicapped one.
So, my brain just made me never to be able to use the term cloud administrator without thinking on someone with his chin on the side, drooling and saying in repeat "you asked for it, you've got it; Toyota".
I'm looking for a job, quickly, with some degree of stress, before the unemployment hammer hits me square in the face but, to be able to wow some manager at my deep insight of everything technical, it would be a lot easier if I could actually have anything of a common bases of understanding with that class.
All this was triggered by a recent new thread started in the Sun Solaris Experts linkedin group. the question was "what is RPC".
I know nothing of the guy who made this question so, I'm taking this at it's face value but, someone, somewhere must have decided to give him a job in System Administration.
Juniors have a place in employment structures, sure, but, whoever things that any given number of juniours can replace a seniour is just stupid.
Back at my divorced times, I had a cleaning lady working for me. A very nice lady would go to my house twice per week and keep it a place that would not trigger much attention by the environmental organizations and nuclear byproducts handling companies. She did a fine job, or at least I thought so. Of course that, at that time I was working most of the time anyway and would crash in my house for a few hours per day to sleep before heading of to work again.
My main requirement when I hired her was that she was unexpensive. I didn't require many qualifications except for not to put a huge dent on a single income household but, when Luz moved in with me, we soon discovered that she would break an amazing number of glasses, and knew less than I did about cleaning houses (tip: Bleach is not the proper thing to clean a blue couch; I knew that)
If I was a manager in some modern company (or a consultant), I'm sure my reactions would be, in order:
- Make her full time
- Hire 2 more helpers
- Give money to consultants to tell me I had poor processes and I would need to engage in an ISO9000/ITIL v4 certification
Instead I just got someone who knew how to keep an house clean (actually, she quit since she was moving with her family to some other country but, this is processes we're talking about, not my guts).
The worst part, of course, is that if I was asked, I would never even dream to answer that your problem was that you weren't ITIL certified. Yep, I'll never became a rich consultant, ...
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