[RS]

"What's with all those UNIX admin jobs I see on Monster.com?

and the overwheming majority of the real world schools don't teach UNIX programming

Mine did. Acutally, most do, except those sponsored by Microsoft.
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??? are you under the impression that most colleges in this world are only teaching some facet of computer programming ? If our schools are giving veterinarian or soil hydraulics engineering students coerces in UNIX programing that would explain a lot of why our educational system is screwed up.

[antiRepublicrat]

are you under the impression that most colleges in this world are only teaching some facet of computer programming ?

Any decent school will teach UNIX as it's still a very large part of our computer infrastructure, unless all you plan to do upon graduation is fix home computers and play help desk in a company. As I said, my school had dual Linux/Windows systems in the labs for teaching both.

If our schools are giving veterinarian or soil hydraulics engineering students coerces in UNIX programing that would explain a lot of why our educational system is screwed up.

Interesting you mention engineering, since UNIX is still extremely popular in that field.