Doing a PhD in humanities and enjoy it. I’ve recently really started to enjoy Linux, self hosting, and messing around with various lab stuff.
2 years of help desk minimum
If you want some actual useful skills for a business, learn some cloud.
Azure has a free tier for students that you can renew every year you are still a student.
Can’t hurt to know a thing or two there. Even if it is just to help move back on-premise
https://www.heise.de/en/news/IDC-Many-companies-want-partly-out-of-the-cloud-10001934.html
Cooking! Everybody’s gotta eat. Sorry first thing that came to mind.
Programming is the biggest skill you can learn, as it helps with automation and separates you from install clickers. You don’t have to be advanced, just the basics helps troubleshooting when you understand how software flows from the inside.
Sysadmin and programming are different skill sets. I have yet to see a person that can do both reasonably well.
Find a VAR. listen to the needs of your partner, talk to the VAR and set up sales calls.
Get pricing. Find out if they offer multiple year discounts.
Set up a ticketing system.
Fix the VARs quotes and forward them to your partner, wait for approval.
Follow up in a week.
Follow up in 2 weeks, explain that the quotes expire.
Work late Friday night patching for a 0-day, missing out on date night.
Find out Broadcom bought your homes plumbing and pay 3x what it cost to install to use it for another year.
Your kid got a call from Microsoft and now you can’t access email, fix that ASAP.
You list an education qualification in your post which has nothing to do with your stated intention. Yes, you’re learned and probably smart but why do you want to be a sysadmin?
Have you ever coded anything? Do you want to learn that? Do you want to use your humanities degree to be a caring supporter of stupid system users? Are you even aware of the credo of the bastard operator from hell?
Sorry…saw your post and just wanted to take a piss…you’ll be fine if you want to do that but it’s probably not just like “installing linux” on a computer.
Why the rudeness? My post says I enjoy managing my home stuff and am considering it as a backup job opportunity other than my PhD. Nothing unclear there.
It probably the fact that the industry is getting flooded with people who think working in IT is a easy get rich job.
In reality it sucks and the pay is mediocre. It is something you get into because you love it. There is no easy button like a lot of people want.
It probably the fact that the industry is getting flooded with people who think working in IT is a easy get rich job.
It certainly was 20-25 years ago. Zero formal education besides high school would land you a job 5 times the minimum wage working mostly in air conditioned comfort. Upward mobility was built in, and many of us have leveraged that for even higher paying positions with the gained experience and continued learning of the tech on our own.
Thanks for explaining their response.
I hoped my post was clear, I’m really enjoying self hosting and managing servers. Just thought I would see what else I could do to educate myself and provide another opportunity
work on how to explain things to users. I’m good at layman’s terms, but not at writing out technical stuff for documentation and billing.
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