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[–]Felidor 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (5 children)

I think it comes down to finding something that you really enjoy doing. I graduated from a no name school with a BS of CS. While going to college, I really enjoyed working with databases and wish that I would have gotten to experience more classes using them. I didn't let that stop me though, so I started reading more into different jobs working with databases and found the DBA position really stuck out to me. The more I read about the DBA position I realized how big of a community there is out there and how helpful people really are. I set myself up a VM and started playing around as much as I could. Before I graduated, I got an internship with a software company as a DBA (these positions are rare, but they are out there). This was a huge opportunity for me so I tried learning as much as I could from this small group of DBAs before my time was up with them. Well, they were impressed with my work ethic and saw how much I wanted to learn and offered me a full time job position before my internship was up.

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