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The specific thing you spend the most time doing instead of the actual job you're being paid to do is your new profession. What's your new job title? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by TheLameSauce@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I'm now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I'd ascend to such heights, I'm terrible at magic lol

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[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 70 points 3 months ago (1 children)

weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.

[–] save_the_humans@leminal.space 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I'm stuck on RHEL lmao but using BSD for work would be fun

[–] ZarkleFarkle@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

I'm not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that's what you're interested in.

I think they have questions like "Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server", among other, harder things.

I don't know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Been using Linux for 25 years so i don't know if it's comparable to today but ironically it was setting up game servers for fun. Then i applied for a game sever hosting provider. i think they have mostly died out now. Then just kinda jumped over to web hosting this was before cloud was a thing. Then kinda moved into internal IT running corporate IT. The nice thing being 100% Linux admin i don't have to mess with AD and FSMO. Even though I know how to i keep quiet about that.