weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2024
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Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?
Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.
I'm stuck on RHEL lmao but using BSD for work would be fun
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.
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.
Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?
'office/M365 tutor for geriatrics'
Compared to actual title
"Director of Information Systems"
Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.
I feel that in my soul. I'm a sysadmin, however it's mostly password resets π₯²
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RN = Refreshments and Narcotics
Are you me?
Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them
I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.
Greeeeat, now I'm jerking off someone for money.
Jokes aside, writing is the predominant single activity I engage in that's in the spirit of the question, and I've made some money doing it here and there. But it was never my job.
As an Uber driver, I do everything I can to put people at ease. I end up in many deep, heartfelt conversations with my passengers. I introduce people to new music, and spread information about homeless assistance programs and other resources around the Denver area.
Uber is the platform from which I do my work as a community supporter.
I do Uber my own way, according to my vision. I am an Uber Mensch.
Professional slanderer of programming languages.
I've spent more time than I care to admit
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Professional Cat Petter! π»
You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don't have the time for that.
95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.
If I didn't make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks
Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.
After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn't complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.
That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.
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Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.
Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).
Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol
I'm a professional social media browser.
I think I'd actually kill myself.
Linux admin π
Professional sleeper.
That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.
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There was this Russian developer who got jailed for something a couple years back. I've looked up his website and it was a giant field of mines. Up to the challenge, I've proceeded for weeks to try to clear it during work hours. Finally managed and all I got was something akin to a laugh.wav as a reward.
Guess I'm a minesweeper.
I am so curious. Tell me more about this? Can you share a link? What are the mines like- Iβve seen devs do escape room style challenges where youβre solving a progressive puzzle using dev tools, is it like that?
I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don't do it commercially (yet).
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~~I really don't want to play Arma professionally~~ I misunderstood the question
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Linux Sysadmin. Funnily enough, that's the career I'm in after procrastinating a lot during my ecology studies.
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Current Job title: programmer
Effective job title: Sysadmin.
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Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.
Please refer to me as Total War XMunk in the future. I shall reign terror upon this land.
Well, either that or I'm now a professional pilgrim... gosh, I wish you could get paid for just walking a lot.
Without looking too far my prediction is to see 2 varations of replies mostly:
1.) I do something completely unrelated and enjoyable because my job is chill, or I'm good at it, and so on...
2.) I actually do my boss's job and maybe even their bosses' jobs,, because I actually do the work that gets done, but am still paid at peon-level.
I'm a professional drinker.
Of water, right?
Right?
Pro golfer or sword fighter. Can't complain
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