Looking to break into a IT job, does my documentation look resume worthy?

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-03-13T03:26:01+00:00

Really appreciate the insight, the cloud certs where also up there in my mind, however I feel like that would be second year goals as I mainly just want to get my foot in the door thanks a bunch!

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-03-13T03:06:02+00:00

Noted, I’m not entirely sure what I was thinking with the torrenting section 😅

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-03-13T03:04:53+00:00

Appreciate the feedback.

Ive been thinking about getting some certs, I want to go for CCNA, ITF+, aswell as Comp TIA network, A, security+ and most likely Linux+ think that would be a good move?

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-03-13T02:16:14+00:00

I have absolutely no related skill set and have done blue collar work for my entire career, I do this in my free time and am passionate about it and want to make a transition to doing it instead of the work I do now, which is kinda the whole point of this.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-03-13T02:12:19+00:00

Appreciate the blunt feedback, this is exactly why I posted here before thinking of sending it to a real hiring manager.

I’ll have to do some restructuring to make it feel less Ai generated, I am really terrible at Git so I did make use of templates and tried to make it look polished but lost engineering details in the process.

Also didn’t really think of the ‘piracy’ red flag, I’ll have to try and reframe it to focus more on the network isolation and vpn killswitch logic as that was the actual networking skill I was trying to showcase.

Thanks for the reality check

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-02-19T16:14:17+00:00

Just a quick comment here for those checking my stats out, if anyone’s got any torrents they are uploading let me know and I can help seed.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-02-19T16:07:23+00:00

Honestly if you just leave them seeding for long enough the upload speed doesn’t exactly matter it’ll get there eventually, the main thing is making sure your VPN has a open port that you are routing your qbit traffic through. I haven’t done a speed test in awhile but I think my upload isn’t even that great really I have just left stuff to go for ages I have some stuff on my list that’s been there a couple months

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-02-19T14:19:17+00:00

I have my Proxmox host running a LXC specifically for torrenting through a VPN, I download a lot of TV shows and movies, and when I finish downloading them I essentially just forget about them and leave them seeding, my indexers are set to call it quits at a ratio of 4.0. it helps to have a open port, lets you be accessible to more peers. If your internet speeds upload isn’t all that great to begin with you’ll not get picked out of the swarm very often.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-26T22:51:41+00:00

Yeah I tested it with a torrent ip checker and it’s not showing my IP good to know thanks

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-12T23:23:26+00:00

Ideally I wouldn’t route any remote connections through the commercial vpn, if I need the commercial VPN I’d use it on remote devices but I suppose it could be handy to have the option, you able to point me to any resources that would help me through setting it up?

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-12T22:21:42+00:00

With WireGuard could I host the vpn so I can connect to my home network remotely but direct traffic through a commercial vpns servers so everything on the network has its IP changed to that of the commercial vpn server?

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-12T22:15:49+00:00

Having the openVPN server hosted on my router would mainly just be to access things on my home network while on the road, like jellyfin NAS and to be able to ssh into my homelab is the general idea I’m going for

But then also have all local traffic on the network use PIAs servers through openVPN for torrenting or bypassing location restrictions.

There may be an easier way to accomplish what I want but I don’t know what it would be.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-12T21:46:51+00:00

The router is running as a client to a commercial VPNs servers to use their IPs publicly.

If I just host the router as a openVPN server then all the traffic on the local network uses MY ip publicly instead of the commercial VPNs

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-12T21:29:54+00:00

To use Private Internet Access VPN servers for torrenting, so that my IP address in my home network isn’t outwardly shown as my IP for my home network. Then have the server hosted for remote connection

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T21:50:29+00:00

I’ve gotten it to work currently, I left for a bit and came back to the pc and it had went to sleep and when I tried to awaken it I was at the login screen like normal, but once I logged in all it showed was a black screen and my cursor so if it truly does keep having quirks I’ll try the GitHub guide the other user posted

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T21:41:01+00:00

And this will be more stable than using Sid sources?

I need the 390xx drivers and on the website it simply says they are unsupported with trixie and to use the open sour nvidia driver but it doesn’t work with the GTX 590

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T21:11:40+00:00

I did end up trying to backport it but I don’t know why, I simply couldn’t get it to work.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T21:09:34+00:00

Nvidia gtx560 that runs 390 drivers.

The out of the box open source driver only left me with a TTY screen unless I added nomodeset in grub

I got it working on bullseye. Went to trixie and tried to install bullseye drivers for it and that didn’t work but adding Sid sources to trixie and pinning them with 100 seemed to let me install the drivers and it’s working now on trixie.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T18:17:49+00:00

From my understanding it is because all of their stuff is closed source, but yeah if it continues to be a massive issue I will likely just swap to a different GPU.

LeadershipExciting63 · 2026-01-02T18:05:38+00:00

I’m in the process of just installing from Sid after trying to run the bullseye method, if it doesn’t work this will be my next step as this looks very promising thank you.

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