• kitnaht@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I wanna know how to get one of these damn jobs; I currently play with shit like Proxmox and high availability clusters at home just for a laugh, and because I enjoy it; but with no formal education - and I’m making peanuts at work rn. I wish I could break into this somehow.

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      5 months ago

      Find a decent MSP and grind there for a few years. It’ll suck but you’ll touch a ton of different environments in a short time, and get exposed to all sorts of broken things.

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      5 months ago

      This is my 3rd data center. Mainframe experience helps.

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      5 months ago

      Find someone (online) that can guide you. Make sure you do all the work though, and just let the senior put you KB the right track and only help you with things you’re really stuck at. That’s one way to get the experience you really need

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        5 months ago

        How do you go about finding the mentor sort of person? I’ve never been able to develop a relationship like that online.

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          One way is LinkedIn, another would be to ask for a mentor in a small online community where everyone have a shared interest. I think the most safe bet however is to do this through the people you already know, they might know someone who knows someone who could take on the role of a mentor.