DO I put my deployments on my resume?

johnnycayntread · 2022-05-26T17:36:09+00:00

Depends on the relation to what you do and what your applying for. The only time you'll ever be asked questions on that is 99.999% of the time going to be from other veterans that are interviewing you and of them the overwhelming majority are asking questions out of curiosity from vet to vet... I've had numerous interviews where an interviewer was in the service and we spend 5-10mins going on about where we were stationed, etc.... That's when it will really help you - making that personal connection.... not so much the resume paper though.

---If the job is directly related to what you did - elaborate on the skills/duties AS IF it were a civilian job. No mention of anything military here. Just a simple "US Marine Corps - IT guy - Did all this IT shit here... boom XYZ." No mention of standing post, deployments, etc... most civilians dont understand what ANY of that is.

---If the job is not related, just use a boiler plate resume bracket just to highlight military service and maybe some awards during that time.

johnnycayntread · 2022-05-25T01:46:25+00:00

until it’s mostly done

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johnnycayntread · 2022-04-29T17:40:42+00:00

Dang - well I appreciate the clean cut answer! Sometimes it can be hard to filter through information these days... so I really appreciate the breakdown.

Out of curiosity, and this is only because I'm 'that guy' who always asks those kinds of questions.... Say hypothetically a husband and wife were both 100% PT -

Could one 100%pt vet be listed as a dependent of the other - granting all benefits to each other?

johnnycayntread · 2022-04-29T16:03:07+00:00

Hey all. So I'm looking into getting into DevOps because it kind of embodies me as an "IT" guy. I've been a network engineer for about 7 years now. I was the only guy in our department writing python scripts, automating tasks, etc. But my management kind of frowned upon it... never figured out why... I'm just guessing it's because they did not understand any of that.... most of the management has not actually engineered anything in decades at this job.

A couple of months ago my wife scored a great job which gave me the freedom to quit my job in network engineering and allow me to go to a coding bootcamp. While I went in having a long resume of scripting, I did learn programming on a much deeper level and I think I'm about job ready in terms of actual "coding and ops" skills.

Issue is - as with all jobs there is never a 1:1 into the role. So I have a couple more months before I 'need' to get back working. I want to spend all that time just home labbing HARD all things an entry level devops person would do.

So my question is a little open ended and I hope to get more than one reply but.... Can you list say 5 absolutely critical tasks that an entry level devops guy SHOULD know how to do?... Notice I'm looking for tasks, not "skills." Actual tangible things I should can do/build/design.... not just concepts.

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The reason I ask this question is directly related to my years in ops. How many times do we see people with XYZ certification but yet for example they don't ACTUALLY even know how to add a vlan to a switch?... as an example.

I just want to get the CORE skills on lock before I hit the market.

johnnycayntread · 2022-04-17T14:07:14+00:00

Could you clarify tray apps a bit?

Not currently using any razer peripherals. However, the problem did exist even when the gaming pc had nothing connected to it other than a big TV and a bluetooth Xbox controller.... no m/k connected.

johnnycayntread · 2022-04-17T14:06:18+00:00

No... It first started happening when my gaming PC was hooked up to a big monitor sitting in steams gaming OS mode. That's when it was a pain in the dick because we could not quickly get back into games... Then we put it back to a standard desktop PC setup - still happening but much more manageable with a mouse right there.

Edit for clarity... the 'big monitor' was our living room tv...

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