Administration

Fsck your ``satori" bullshit. I don't care how young you were when you coded that ANSI C compiler in C. I just want to be a Database Administrator and make a living, being smart without requiring genius-level mental capabilities, and trying to have the least amount of stress as possible. Is that so wrong?

What is the best way a college freshman might go about accomplishing this? Should I even worry about anything dealing with job opportunities now, or should I just wait until I'm in my Junior year and have completed the core curriculum of calc, physics, C programming, and the like?

>>28
As far as getting a degree goes: if you want to work for a cool company, they'll go "Oh, huh, a BS in CS. But can you do DBA stuff? Do you have experience?"; for a lame company, "ooh, a piece of paper! Sure, we'll hire you!"

And yeah, the quality of them suck. Most people who have the technical ability to do DBA usually prefer to do something "more interesting". (This is also why there are so few Really Good windoze admins out there: it's rare to both 'be clueful' and 'be willing to deal with windows bullshit'.)

FWIW, there's an awful lot of idjut programmers out there, too.