>B.S. in Info Systems >almost start startup senior year >3 years linux/cloud admin >Security+ and CCNA R+S
>can't find job in city of 3 million, apply to everything slightly relevant I see >hit up every recruiting company, get my resume redone so many times I thought about using git for it, mock interviews go so well they question why I even bothered >1 year unemployed as of last week
Should I just kill myself, Sup Forums? I mean, I.T. jobs are so plentiful. There must be something wrong with me. I'm defective and will never be able to achieve things in life.
sounds like a blessing, op. besides you might actually like the farm life.
Cooper Long
I want to hurt the people that told me this was a good career choice, though. I'm completely serious. I just don't know how to do it.
David Watson
Your certifications are worthless. Actual experience is what you need. I didn't even go to high school and I landed a Fortune 500 IT job doing basic INFOSEC shit alongside some end user support.
Ryan Clark
Do you actually know anything about being a sysadmin or is it just "I HAVE A DEGREE AND CERTS, HIRE ME REEEEE"
Gabriel Mitchell
I know the problem You're one of those delusional nobodies that believe they're entitled to shit >Degree in literally what >Almost started _______ >3 years Linux admin (3 years of sudo apt-get update)
Stop feeling sorry for yourself you haven't done shit
Brody Johnson
You shouldn't have chased the money . You should have studied thing you genuinely enjoyed in college. If you're not an academic you should have gone to trade school
Ryder Rivera
Of course getting the job is only half the battle. I got fired because LOL CORPORATE POLITICS. My advice is if you get a position somewhere: keep to yourself, don't do any work that isn't directly assigned to you by your front line, pretend you're busier than you actually are
Charles Watson
Eh?? Do you really think managing systems infrastructure consists of running apt? You can setup a cron job to handle that shit. The real meat of it is deploying secure environments across thousands of servers, properly isolating applications and working through weird dependency issues caused by incompetent developers
Blake Gonzalez
>he wants us to believe this is how someone with 3 years of sysadmin experience would describe their job
You are probably fresh out of high school and lying about every single thing ITT.
Daniel Diaz
I have 3 years worth of experience.
see above. I've saved more than a few small businesses during my time at a colo facility, and was in charge of a large-ish financial company (~2000 employees) main infrastrucure backups.
wow gee that sure helps. Never considered that before.
Jordan Peterson
>be neet for 10 years >zero job xp >no uni >get unsolicited recruiters trying to put me into fully remote sr dev positions at $150k
almost nobody used debian/ubuntu in production, it was all centos.
cocksucker.
Lucas Morris
>sudo yum update
damn, that's a lot harder
Angel Williams
how though
boomerposting is worn out already
Blake Roberts
I'm not even the OP my dude. I'm the nigga who worked at the Fortune 500 company that didn't go to high school. My resume consisted of some shit about me running a corporate CMS on an nginx/OpenBSD stack behind CloudFlare and some shit about an IRC network I created that consisted of a bunch of VMs running a fork of ratbox I maintained.
What this guy says. RPM distributions alongside Windows Server are what's common in a corporate environment. Routing equipment is typically Cisco/Juniper shit maybe some crap FreeBSD box and fuckin' garbo Apple APs
Zachary Scott
>I DID MORE THAN YUM UPDATE!!! >I ALSO INSTALLED APACHE AND CONFIGURED IT >TWICE!!!!!
Easton Thomas
>starts namedropping intro-level business software to seem like he knows what he is talking about
Nobody buys your bull shit, kiddie.
Austin Nguyen
They're looking at my linkedin, github, stackoverflow or something. I'm also a specialist in a fairly niche language and have used an even more niche db so they might be hard up on finding people.
Jacob Bailey
Get ready to move out of your city because it's probably a shithole for tech people.
Robert Flores
>decides to be an asshole >makes unfounded, idiotic assumptions that shows he has barely, if any, knowledge of what he is criticizing others about >gets shown the door >I know, lets just shit up the thread instead
Never change, Sup Forums. This is why I keep coming here.
Nobody's using Apache in production. It's all nginx and fucking IIS.
Feel free to connect to my IRC network: irc.arabs.ps also a lot of times you'll be maintaining SELinux profiles, fucking with in-house kernel patches that bork shit and explaining to end users that there VM doesn't need to be allocated 8GB of RAM to perform database look ups and run some shit soft phone client.
Ryan Thompson
I'm not OP. To all those ragging on the OP, why not offer some suggestions instead of "lmao you wasted time and money on useless paper." You know its simply not true. Degrees and certs will get you past many HR filters, that is an enormous step up versus candidates that do not have those qualifications. OP you need to build on that. Get out there and start networking with like-minded individuals. You said you live in a city, there are plenty of opportunities to do this. Additionally you should spend some time volunteering your technical skill to some nonprofits for, oh like 10-15 hours a week. It's not much but its something, and those nonprofits are always looking for help and tech help usually costs a lot of money; something nonprofits tend to lack.
Ryder Lopez
>samefagging
Chase Bell
So learn a niche? How are mainframes these days?
Maybe. It's St. Louis so, yeah.
thanks for the nonprofit tip, thats a good idea. I'm guessing just call some up?
nah youre just an asshole who doesn't even know what theyre talking about
Julian Johnson
Mainframes mostly running Windows and Z/OS. Typically don't find them outside of older corporations.
Benjamin Richardson
SPILL THE BEANS FUCKER
Zachary Lopez
>Be me >PHP, AngularJS, jQuery (and front-end html/css) >Python, C++ >Jobs plentiful >Work from home making $100k+ >25 years old >Also made $80K off crypto last year
Poorfags gonna poor
Blake Stewart
But how do I get that experience user? As of right now I'm only A+ certified and currently working on my CCNA R+S. I have no experience doing anything in IT besides maybe some call center type tech support and "web search analysis". Plz help, I just want to work as a technician or do help desk or something.
Get involved in some open sauce projects. Read books on your own time. Set shit up to show you're competent. Nothing makes an employer harder than diamond other than an applicant with his own email/web server showcasing who he is and what he's about. Bonus points if you setup a PBX and have cool menu options. That way they'll kno your competent
Remember kids, the pyramid only gets narrower the further up you go.
Ethan Harris
Clojure + datomic
I hope you like emacs, lisp, and a proprietary db no one knows how to use effectively.
Connor Peterson
nobody knows what they are talking about on this gay earth. everyone just says shit because they have nothing better to do.
Justin Edwards
>3 years of sudo apt-get update
i am rolling
Ian Kelly
Adoption of puppet, ansible, saltstack, and other automation tools have already shrunk the sysadmin job market significantly. Wait until the AI rolls out and it will get even worst. The only IT jobs left will be Tier 1 Help Desk support (is your computer plugged in sir?) and some rare legacy systems at banks or wherever, so pretty much no sysadmin jobs.
Joshua Harris
>cool menu options what menu? On the pbx gui?
Sebastian Perez
wtf bro i live in st louis
James Thompson
First of all do you know what a pbx is & does? I don't mean to come off as rude, truthfully I had no idea what a pbx was until I had one at work and had to frequently use it. By menu I'm going to assume he means an automated answering service that routes calls to different departments (extensions). By cool, he probably means useful and/or easy to understand.
Of course I could be completely wrong and he could be talking about a neat GUI that only you and whoever else physically sees your phone would see. Personally I think that would be neat but I'm not a hiring manager anymore.
Brandon Ramirez
Ho lee fuk, the buzzword soup on those websites is so bad. Is this the state of technology in the year of our Lord 2020-2?
Elijah Wilson
yeah I know what a PBX is. Don't worry about rudeness, Sup Forums is full of ignorance and I am no exception for the most part. So you mean a dialplan implementing an IVR which integrates with the rest of the server, interacting with the db and providing options to the user such has 'talk to a consultant', 'schedule an appointment', etc? Because I set up some boxes like these, nothing big, mostly for small companies and never implemented a gui to handle the settings like there is in pbx distros like pbxinaflash and freepbx. Mostly did it as a freelancing / sidejob experience, is it really relevant in a resume? It's literally editing bunch of configs and setting up a dialplan.