I still barely believe it honestly. I’m a student “freshly” outta school with no experience, and I’ve been struggling finding a job for a while.

I had an (first) job interview recently and while I didn’t have much to offer, I seemed to somewhat impress them with my home labbing. I run Proxmox at home for my self-hosted things and got a decent amount of experience with it, and it’s what they use a lot as well. It’s not that common in my age group to be interested in stuff like this, apparently.

Anyway, this is barely worthy of a post, but I’m really excited. I don’t really know how it’ll work out as I still got plenty to learn, but it’s a big step forwards for me.

  • Mehammered@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I always tell people trying to learn IT/systems engineering. Tinker but treat your Lab like a pseudo prod.

    Document all your changes and all your methods. Keep it on a USB for interviews, Web site and in a PowerPoint.

    Congratulations! Happy you got this.

    • RiffyDivine2@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Document all your changes and all your methods

      My friends joke with me that my notebook looks like a methwizards spell book from all the notes and notes on notes and dog eared notes. Nothing like having something fail two times and then work the third and you got no idea why unless you wrote down everything.