| I have no intention in presenting this topic as us against them. I am not protective of my telecom knowledge. I love to teach others what I know. The network guys on my team are a great bunch of guys, and we get along great. The network guys are more than willing to share, and teach me. None of us has the time in our fast paced production environments to cross train. We are officially sanctioned, and instructed to cross train by managment. Managment runs staff so lean that there is no time for cross training. We have all we can do to keep up with production demands. I agree both sides need to learn the other, and we will eventually. My original rant was the expectations of the recruiters looking for this converged talent as if it exists on every street corner. The employment ads should read experienced telco willing to learn networking, or experienced networking willing to learn telecom. I think recruiters should realize this combined experience is not readily available, and should not lead companies to believe it is. One other point, when you have this talent what will you be paid? Not telecom, or network wages I hope. This position should pay real close to six figures. Agree? |