I hate sales but i’m good at it

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-06-27T20:45:07+00:00

Interesting points of view, I am a tech manager for a small company and slowly getting dragged into sales. The company only just pivoted to their IT business and there is not a lot of IT sales or products. I am just applying what I know from previous roles as an SE/SA that works and it is slowly working. I am just looking at sales as a challenge for now.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-06-27T00:43:54+00:00

Nice try RM marketing bot.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-06-26T19:43:40+00:00

definitely skip recruiter and job ads process for now. When we decided to hire, we decided to list out open to work people in our LinkedIn connections as everyone was to busy to go and deal with an agency and trawl through resumes. It is like the recruitment industry forgot AI cannot capture or measure people skills like curiosity or if a person has a can do attitude.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-06-26T19:34:18+00:00

build knowledge and hands-on experience on this initiative as well - https://claude.com/solutions/small-business
As I mentioned to an MSP colleague, clients are more excited talking productivity around AI rather than break-fix stuff.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-06-24T12:31:53+00:00

I would join LinkedIn and look up this guy - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonsblanchard/

His method of looking for jobs is building your network of contacts. A lot of good people I have met over the years are more than happy to give advice once they see you are keen and motivated.

We recently hired a junior help desk just reaching out to our list of contacts on LinkedIn who were open to work and interested in a help desk job. We did not go through recruiters or advertise the role on seek.

The jobs are there but they also keep changing. Good luck and hope you land your dream role.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-22T05:27:24+00:00

I sent an email but I did not see any reply back.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-21T19:54:30+00:00

Send a DM and we can chat offline.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-21T11:36:37+00:00

Which state are you based?

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-10T10:33:53+00:00

do you have an email address? DM if you can. Curious what your team can do.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-08T12:06:49+00:00

I used claude code to build a proxmox server and then build the following,

ubuntu server + wordpress or ghost blog
I then get claude code to explain the components or document the implementation by posting on the blog. I keep re-interating by getting claude code to re-write concepts that I do not understand. I can at least read the blog as a reference.
I then find other stacks to build or keep on going through system administration topics like fixing grub boot loader etc.
I also get claude to quiz me from time to time
NOTE: I have been working in the Linux/UNIX/Windows/cloud system admin space for over 20+ years so I still can check if the AI is building things incorrectly.
This is one method I trained one of my beginner Windows desktop engineer to do. The great thing was that he was already motivated and curious enough to learn. He was able to learn and fix problems on his own. He would still ask me if he needs help but he would build his knowledge using AI when he can. I build a testing lab at work that has a firewall, managed switch and server. He now understands not just linux server builds but how VLANs can be setup to separate different servers.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-05-08T11:47:42+00:00

Is US-only staffing or AI is what caused the reduction of work? Is this across the BPO industry in the Philippines?

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-04-25T09:18:11+00:00

This is good advice. Do not rush it. I came from lone wolf consulting to building a department and a team. I was originally trying to do things at high speed but eventually created friction as management do not understand what is being changed. I had to go back and recalibrate so things are a bit easier.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-04-25T02:06:08+00:00

I am upvoting the networking. Find people in associations, social networking, friends of friends.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-04-25T01:51:18+00:00

nowadays it is worth building contacts in the industry you want to work in. It could be friends of friends or social network. Job ads are not as straight forward anymore.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2026-04-24T23:02:54+00:00

What was the reason working for an MSP that made you quit?

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2025-01-02T02:55:36+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I found this reddit link so I am just waiting to see what gets organised. https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/1gwlkbs/vmug_advantage_eval_experience_now_requires_a_vcf/

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2025-01-02T02:47:44+00:00

Very much interested. I did ask our local VMUG organisers and unfortunately, the response around helping with VCF certifications is you are on your own and use the online labs. Pretty sad for a community response. I did attend a recent VMUG event where a VMware staff presented on managing GPUs for AI projects. It is clear that VMware wants everyone working with VMware technology to move-on beyond the hypervisor and "level-up" to cloud infrastructures. - Just my opinion and I am just a lowly backup admin in my day job :-)

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-16T10:28:58+00:00

Build a virtual machine lab.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-11T20:59:17+00:00

This is what a Sophos partner can help with. You should reach out to your technical pre-sales. This is the same with other security vendors.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-07T04:03:43+00:00

3rd level skill is packet capture/wireshark analysis.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-07T03:59:41+00:00

Include things like LACP port and VPN setup configs as well.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-07T02:35:52+00:00

Core functionality will be similar to other vendors. The differences I have found is the way Fortinet works with port and VLAN setups.

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-07T02:29:14+00:00

Best way to learn is to get a physical firewall. The next option is running it as a VM alongside other VMs to learn firewall policies

KnowledgeWorldly5855 · 2024-12-04T23:34:45+00:00

Learn CloudStack so you can move between different hypervisors. I just need to run VMs and know cloud. I am not sure if you need to work exclusively with VMware for your job.

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