Quote:
Originally posted by Karl_the_second
Any advice please on Oracle certification and getting into Oracle DBA career. I have done some MCP exams (networking and vb) but I have serious cold feet with the certification business. This is mainly because I dont have solid long term experience and I have found that relying on a certification to get a job is pointless ( did MCSE NT 4.0 and I never did get a job anywhere near an NT 4.0 server, due to...you guessed it...no experience!).
However I am interested in learning Oracle for future career growth but I have no experience with Oracle other than walking past a server with Oracle running on it (about four years ago). This leaves me in a pretty pathetic situation as I have NO experience, would like to get into it and have no idea how. My current job gives me no Oracle exposure so I'm really trying to find out any suggestions on how to get into Oracle in the future.
|
"Wise you are, young Jedi, for you know what you know not."
No one will ever be able to sell you more "certifications." Good for you.
I observe that you are dissatisfied with your current job, because you feel that it's going nowhere. Your
conclusion is that, "therefore I must find another job and learn Oracle," but is that your
only possible conclusion; your only possible course of action? I think not. Certainly it is by far the most risky, the most uncertain, and the most psychologically unsettling of all of the
many alternatives available to you now. Brew up a cup of your favorite espresso, sit in your favorite flower garden, and ponder this for a while. Those flowers, my young apprentice, just may have something to tell you ...
"Bloom where you are planted," they say. Discuss your concerns with your boss. Maybe he or she can provide you with more challenges, and doubtless he or she can provide you with some candid advice. (By far the easiest place to get a new job is where you already have one.) Ponder exactly
why it is that you've latched onto "Oracle," and look deeper for the source of your present discontent. Everywhere you look, you will find more options, and with every one you find, your panic will subside.
Remember that no one is ever hired for "what they know," or "because they know it," but rather they are hired because of what they have demonstrated they can do.
Every person with a particular bit of technical knowledge, at one time did not possess it. But they knew how to get it, probably accomplished the original task with a fair amount of educated guesses and a whole lot of reading, and
probably did it in a very long weekend.
They learned on the job, and they did it by pushing the envelope of their present position, because "by far the easiest employee to hire to do a new job is an employee you've already got."
Finally: while you should candidly admit to
yourself what your self-perceived limits of knowledge and so-forth are, you should always remember Alfred Hitchcock's acting advice given to Ingrid Bergman:
That's what actresses
do, now isn't it? No matter how many times you've read over your lines, at some point you just walk out on that stage, and you
do it. Nobody gave you permission and maybe no one applauds. But that's what lets an actress drop into a new and unfamiliar, therefore challenging role, and to know just what to do as if by instinct. Then they create more opportunities for themselves, of whatever type of role they discover they prefer. Directors watch, gain confidence, and hire them.
dBforums
>
oracle certification worth it?
12-01-03, 16:59
oracle certification worth it?
Linear Mode
