I’m now a pro magic the gathering player! Never thought I’d ascend to such heights, I’m terrible at magic lol
weirdly I’m still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.
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?
Urgh, better than being paid to start online fights. Your mother?
MY MOTHER’S A SAINT
‘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 🥲
Same, but was a library clerk that was for “everything even vaguely computer-tasky for geriatrics and people 20+ who never touched a computer and don’t even know how their $3000 phone works.”
Yeah I had a plan when I quit: Quitting was the plan. Instant relief of so many mental symptoms I could name and some I probably couldn’t lol. Don’t care what happens now. Anything is better than that.
Well at least you are probably getting paid to do that, and it shouldn’t be all that hard to do if you don’t get frustrated easily.
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
Hate the player not the game.
Professional Cat Petter! 😻
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.
What kind of job you work? I hear people talk about having downtime to do nothing all the time on Reddit, but it seems like it’s industry dependent. Ex: in healthcare there often isn’t much in the way of downtime, but many office workers (obviously position dependent…can’t think of specifics now) seem to say they do nothing all day
I work in a warehouse of a company that sells a pretty huge variation of products. I drive fork lifts on a regular basis, but my work is about 50% computer work too. But not in the office, my computer is in the warehouse.
I used to be a computer programmer, but being in the office all day drives me nuts. I need to be a little bit more active and I also like to change my view every now and then.
We have basically no downtime, there is always something to do, we are understaffed, the new hires don’t have a clue so all the work comes to the experiences workers. We are also trying to change some processes but we barely have the time.
So for me, the question was just really weird, I cannot imagine having nothing to do. I don’t even know what I would do if I have nothing to do. Probably take the day off or something…
Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.
Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol
Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).
I’m a professional social media browser.
I think I’d actually kill myself.
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- I’ve seen devs do escape room style challenges where you’re solving a progressive puzzle using dev tools, is it like that?
