Gaining Experience for your Linux Career - What should you Learn?!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ส.ค. 2022
- If you're trying to get your foot in the door for an exciting career in Information Technology, what should you learn? There's countless technologies out there, and you can't learn them all. In this video, Jay discusses an unlikely source of information for what to learn - visiting job boards!
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Time Codes
00:20 - Intro
01:47 - Checking job ads for what's relevant in the job market today
02:27 - Creating a scoring system to weigh which technologies you should focus on learning
03:17 - Important disclaimer about searching job boards for relevant skills
04:30 - Why you should check job boards regularly (at least quarterly)
05:43 - Why you should also choose a "Passion Project"
07:41 - Contributing to open-sourse as your Passion Project
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After decades in IT-business, you sometime did almost everything, but it's hard to recall it when needed.
So, the most important skills are system-independent, like documentation and stuff like that.
How to prioritize and order your work, and get things done in a structured way.
It slows down at the beginning, but saves a lot of time at the end, when your projects become really complicated.
That's my opinion.
100% agree 👍🏽
I totally agree with Jay. Job offers tell you everything about your market. Personally, I have a list of skills that were most popular on the relevant job offers, and I was learning one by one to cut off biggest "bottlenecks" of my career. But also, do what makes your heart beat faster. That's a recipe for a joyful and successful career :)
I found this helpful. Currently looking to transition into a new field and the timing was spot on.
Great content! I particularly like the idea of having a hobby project of many. It is helpful.
RHCSA with a good intership program with solid mentor it's going to be a great start
Jay congratulations on this video. This is something that we all should do.
This is exactly want I needed. Thank you! It seems logical in hindsight 😄
Me too! Very useful who is a beginner!
the RHCSA can be a good path to start on.
I agree with that.
I'm on that right now,
Maybe Linux foundation?
@@johnvardy9559No linux experience, yes. A few years of experience then RHCSA.
@@fishingangler4315Yup. A lot of these exams aren't designed to obtain and expect easily land a job right away. Doesn’t work that way in the real world. The RCHSA is like the equivalent to the CCNA. You need some prior real world experience. I see a lot people just collect certs but aren't even working in I.T. they are simply wasting their time and money. I'm a both a Desktop Support Tech and Red Hat Linux Admin with no degree or certs. Since i have been supporting both RHEL7 and RHEL8 for awhile, I can utilize my professional experience and apply it to the RHCSA exam. You get certified while working in the role that justifies your Proficiencies with better pay in the long run.
you are awesome jay, great tip!
I love to watch your content , my love started for Linux after watch your video
Great information and advice!!!
The added bonus of the passion project - it might just be a niche domain the right employer might pay extra for due to the scarcity of the knowledge and skills.
🙏 Thanks Very important for me!
Great video as always - thank you
A small comment - while working from home on company machine I guess you should be careful using the work machine even when not on company network if some kind of endpoint security software is installed :D
Keep up the great work - it is deeply appreciated
Great advice Jay! Best channel on TH-cam 🤲🏼
Thanks!
we have lots information resources available on interner and in books but because of lack of proper guidance we cant manage and utilize those knowledge. Thank you for guide us 👍🙏
My pleasure!
Great, simple, elegant and timeless advise.
I also, every couple of years, applying for a job to see what the market will offer. Just to get my bearings on what I can expect from my current employer, brush up my cv and get feedback.
Sidenote: Firms also put out fake job offerings to scan the market, so it's fair play.
Excellent advice. I did not know about the fake job offerings, but of course they do. Thank you for commenting.
Big facts. So tired of the fake job postings put out by employers.
Thank you for your tips
Some great advices!
Thanks Jay. Any Void Linux review coming up?
Thanks for the video. I'm no pro Linux user but I had a lot of fun with vms and hardware passthrough 2 years ago and some time later I had the opportunity to implement the things I had learned and I was proud 'cause I even got to make some money out of it, eventually. Again, thanks for the tips, great video 🙏🤘
Amazing nicholas, sounds like the perfect way to getting the feet wet and actually start a professional career! Keep going! 💪
@@ArniesTech thanks bud 🙏🤘 Let's go🔥🔥🔥
Quality video as always
when I look for linux sysadmin I am looking for areas where ms suck and linux can help.
so I suggest focus on scripting, connecting storage like netapp and security areas like pen test. bash is nice but is the base of the ladder not the skill. learning monitoring like zabbix/nagios/checkmk is always useful.
actually thought of this about 10 years ago. Then I just settled going the cert route.
I always find myself lost when it comes to this field, it's so hard to know what you want to specialize in because the field is so broad. I want to develop games with C#, but then I also want to administrate Windows. I want to learn Linux, but then I want to get my CCNA and learn networking. I want to be a web developer, but I also want to make mods for games. Although I know I can't learn everything, I know I want to be a swiss army knife who is capable of a lot and I can pivot at will.
You can study those things - keep in mind, there’s overlap. So sometimes you’ll naturally lean into the other stuff. For example, it’s pretty much impossible to learn Linux without also stumbling upon some networking concepts. Trust me, it’s not as difficult as it seems to be at first.
I understand you exactly. I think I'm in the same shoes.
I'm a web software engineer, did this for about 10 years. But I'm also a Linux enthusiast, using it as my daily driver, also messing with it sometimes as part of my job (mostly devops stuff). To be honest I'm thinking about pivoting to this area, but I'm not much interested in becoming a full-time devops or sysadmin. I'm more interested in the Linux desktop, like messing with Gnome extensions or writing GTK based applications. I don't have the necessary skills yet, but I think I have the basics to start messing with it more seriously.
I'm also a retrogame enthusiast. I'm writing my first game in good old C for MSDOS - I'm kind of in the middle of the process. It's not a super-ambitious game, but more like a pilot project to learn the basics of it the hard way. I like it a lot, but it also frustrates me a lot sometimes... That's how learning stuff works.
To make things even busier, I started to mess with digital music production. I'm a beginner, but I feel the calling to discover this creative area a little further.
So I'm kind of bouncing between all these projects, and sometimes I feel that I'm not going anywhere. That's part of the "swiss army knife" experience. But on the other hand I have hope that if I don't give up, and I'm listening to my inner self's callings, I'll arrive to the point when the ultimate path will be clearer. At least that's how it worked out in the past.
So even when I get the criticism (even from myself) that I'm always changing my plans and I should stick to just one thing, I know that it's not necessarily correct. It's a valid advice though. I just need to be messy in some periods of my life to find order later.
man.... your videos are awesome....such a good channel keep it up bro
Simple to the point. Been looking for a video that tells you what u should learn if u want a Linux career. It's always, learn command line or nothing useful. This is realistic information
Thank you
Can you do some Linux command Line vs Microsoft PowerShell also, how to become a security analyst or a Linux System analyst
Some advertisement will say Office 365 and Azure, very vague... others will be ultra specific, I am trying to contact companies that are obviously using HR with a simple advertisement so I can try and bypass them and talk to a hiring manager for specific departments.
thank you sir
What if we want to get an entry level linux job and they ask for a degree or 10 years etc,, linux related job experience?
You mentioned watching this 5 years from the filming. Well it's a year, I'm 50 year old disabled vet and got to a spot i want to work again. I put linux on an old laptop and it works again! Is the info here still relevant for me in my situation today. I have basic knowledge of computers. I did network calling for a while so i understand signal flow, which means nothing to what we are talking about. Sorry, thank you for the info.
I found it good from Pakistan but i have a question here that can only linux career is good in these days as devops and etc guys are there how a person who has only linux experience will fit in these days jobs and which distribution you suggest to stick with it hope you will answer
"Don't look at job boards while on companies network" As I watch this video connected to my companies network😦 My heart sank a little bit hahaha
I did earn my RHCSA and then RHCE having these certifications didn't help me at all. I'm struggling to find new job opportunities in Linux env.
Serious?
Could this be dependent on your location?
Specialising could also be useful i think.
@@radonspace2098 When I'm applying I'm choosing job roles as systems administrator, linux administrator, systems engineer. I'm open to relocate all over the US. I have around 3-4 years of experience mostly in Linux. I have been getting many rejection emails even for entry level positions.
@@linuxuser8179 Im sure you find a job very soon, good luck
@@linuxuser8179 Devops maybe? If you are skilled with Ansible or even Containerisation then you could focus more on these technologies.
It's strange you are getting rejected.
@@linuxuser8179 do you know rhcsa required 2 years of experience? Which means , you are not entry level
Am 40 and aiming to be a Linux Expert. Is it still okay for the job prospect?
Absolutely!
Why not, its even more interesting at this age.
I like that shirt
"I am an officially certified Arch CLI installer and Gentoo compiler"
"You have the job"
😄
“Why are you a good fit for this job?” “Well, I hacked your workstation and installed Arch on it. You run Arch btw” 😂
@@LearnLinuxTV Made my day. 😁
This doesnt really help alot, we need something more specific about Linux, its logical we can see all these stuff in the job ads.
I'm just curious, is that your God sitting next to you?
Useless advice. This goon is just cherry picking terms from job ads and posts them in a vid
Why do you consider this useless?
@@quinnherdenobviously an attempt to sell learn linux materials