Hey everyone,
Right now I work at my campus tech support center. I’m currently a freshman, I have received an offer the work in the data center as a server monitor. As I want to be a sysadmin, this would seem to be a no-brainer. However, the job in the data center literally is just sitting and monitoring the servers. If something goes wrong, I would contact an engineer to fix it; I would not fix it myself. It isn’t really a technical job, although there is opportunity to do some documentation when needed. On the whole though the job is a lot of downtime. I’ve asked around and a lot of people say that a position in a data center will look better on a resume even if the duties are minimal. Also, the downtime gives me time to work on getting certifications. So what do you guys think? Which is the better opportunity for the future?