results of Novell CIP query

[Anne Halsey <AHalsey -at- SYSTEMONE -dot- NET>]

As promised, I'm posting the results of my query.

Since I only received one response (other than requests
for information), I post it here in its entirety.

Thanks to Dan Brinegar for his reply:
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Darn, I really wanted to post this to the list <grin>...

It is light.... it's the modern equivalent of the 90-day-wonder...

Your Mileage May Vary, but this is generalized advice for someone
considering such a move:

Take three weeks off (vacation or between-gigs, maybe), walk in the door of
almost any Internet Service Provider who's been online less than a year,
ask for a job doing tech-support: They'll hire you if you can read and
speak English (don't worry about stuttering, I stuttered, and worked
tech-support, stutter's not nearly so bad now <smile>). At night, work
through Laura Lemay's deluxe _Teach Yourself HTML Publishing_  on the
webspace they give you...

They'll pay you $7 an hour, and you'll learn more there than you would
taking the Novell course. At the end of it, take another vacation (so you
stop jumping everytime a phone rings), take the money you would have spent
on the course and buy a new computer or software. Go back to work, or get
another gig where they need a webmaster who understands communication and
user-advocacy.

WARNING: Make sure you leave the tech-support gig after three weeks, or you
will get stuck there till the ISP goes under or gets bought out... then
you'll never stop jumping when a phone rings... and you spend all your time
in newsgroups and mailing lists offering flippant (but heartfelt)
advice...<giggle>

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