[ale] Breaking into the field [Inquiry]

[Arie vW]

Im currently working construction for a small residential remodel and
repair company. So unless I was to look into commercial contractor gigs in
afraid there is not a lot of software being utilized. I suppose I could
look into trying to market myself in the construction material dispatch
world.

Thanks for the response

Arie

On Sep 22, 2017 1:05 PM, "Lightner, Jeffrey" <JLightner at dsservices.com>
wrote:

> 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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