A Race to the OCP Finish Line (Part 7, Addendum: Interesting People)

I've met a couple of interesting people in the 10g Workshop. Strangely enough, its actually a fun thing to have attended it particularly when its in the Philippines... most of the students are new exposure Oracle students, mostly consisting of programmers, consultants and system analysts, some DBAs with exposure in SQLServer, with an exception of one which was an actual Oracle DBA.

It must be because I've been living and working against the Hong Kong environment, but I throughly enjoyed being back around people whom I can communicate effortlessly with my native tongues.

Roly - System Developer who's already taken the OCA examination
Archie - works at Smart Philippines. He's the person I've referenced as an Oracle DBA, with exposure from version 7 to current new projects based on 10g.
Erwin - IT specialist formerly situated in Saudi/Dubai. He's thinking of picking up a on the DBA role as a profession.

Its such a strange feeling, but it feels extremely reassuring to be able to talk about my profession without having to explain things from the ground up (I am the only DBA in my current working environment, resulting in me talking to myself a lot of times....) and particularly when based on things about Oracle.

How fascinating... I'm liking my experience already...