[ale] Breaking into the field [Inquiry]

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

What is your current day job?   You might be able to find a company that does support of software used at the kind of business that you’re in now which hires people from such businesses to do front line support.   From there you might be able to move up into other roles.

In a previous life I worked in Hospitality/Accounting.   While in those roles I spent a lot of time working with the systems (i.e. high level end user for our main UNIX system) and got to the point where I was pretty much internal support for the workstations and systems and became the admin for our Novell network.   When I got burned out in Hotels I looked around and found a company that made hotel software that was hiring for their help desk.   It was a fair pay cut to go there but I was promoted within a year to the point I was making what I’d made before and on my next promotion was making more.   The roles there essentially made me SysAdmin of their main support and development servers.   My next job on leaving there was a pure SysAdmin role as have been


From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Arie vW
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2017 11:52 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Breaking into the field [Inquiry]

Hello everyone,
Some of you may know me from the Sunday meet-ups at Harry's Pizza. I am looking for input on how I might land my first Linux related job. My end goal is to find myself in the role of a Junior Systems Administrator somewhere within a few years.
With no technical background, my research has indicated that I must start at the bottom, ie. Help Desk. It was also recommended that I look for any position within a web hosting company, since nowadays these companies tend to run Linux under the hood.
I am striving to learn as much as I can about Linux server implementation and maintenance and wanted to reach out to see if anyone had any suggestions on how I might get my foot in the door somewhere, or any other insightful pieces of advice.
Thanks for you time,
Arie
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