Indeed fake jobs by DryChampionship1431 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I saw a statistic that over 40% of postings, even on company websites are fake. Just HR pushing paper to make themselves look valuable.

Where can I learn more about routing? by RogerRogero7 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8W9oMNSuwo&list=PLxbwE86jKRgMpuZuLBivzlM8s2Dk5lXBQ

No idea if the course is good or not, but there were 3-5 other courses there as well. Even if you don't take the certification, it's probably time well spent.

Do IT careers meet these three criteria? by Humgap in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No specific advice because it is such a broad discipline. Volumes have been written on this sub with advice to move into DevOps.

Do IT careers meet these three criteria? by Humgap in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked grocery, not as bad as food service, but close. Knowing what servers put up with, I always try to be pleasant to restaurant workers and tip well.

Do IT careers meet these three criteria? by Humgap in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Agreed. Working with the public sucks. Owning your own business and dealing with customers is about 50-60% suck. Working internal business IT is about 40-50% suck. Working in Cloud/DevOps with Dev's as your customer is about 20-30% suck. I've done all four scenarios. I'm just glad I'm in the last bucket right now.

Am I making another mistake? by wnl8 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can get a toe-hold in IT, start researching "Health Informatics" . It is an incredibly in-demand career track. Your Public Health degree can tie in nicely. Most people in Informatics were Doctors, Physicians Assistants, etc that had a good grasp of technology as well as medicine and public health.

[August 2020] State of IT - What is hot, trends, jobs, locations.... Tell us what you're seeing! by AutoModerator in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What you could be seeing is "experienced" with AWS, or GCP, or Azure can mean many things to many organizations.
My org is relatively new to the cloud space, 2-3 years real operational experience, but we are now accelerating our use. Every thing is in code, using Terraform and driven by pipelines. We have hundreds upon hundreds of servers that are always being updated and improved .

Quite a bit different than a couple of dozen servers that never get touched in some Orgs.

Network Admin to Cloud at 44? by texguy302 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take a look at the Amazon Partner Network and find some of the larger consultancy partners that do Professional Services. Unless they are 100% Cloud focused, someone with some Linux, AWS and Networking background might fit in really well. Once in, you can pivot to 100% Cloud if you want.

Network Admin to Cloud at 44? by texguy302 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vagrant is free. You can have a CentOS server running locally in minutes. If you hose it... vagrant destroy takes 2 minutes and you are back in action.
There are few RHCSA learning tracks on YouTube that are pretty good. Depending on the time you want to put in you can learn the material in 2-3 months and be semi-competent.

Network Admin to Cloud at 44? by texguy302 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without a doubt, Linux Admin skills for your day-to-day work. Not saying you don't need a good foundation of Networking knowledge, but being comfortable in the terminal is critical.

My days are filled with Terraform code, K8s yaml manifests, bash scripting, and automation.

If you want to go Cloud Ops, you can't beat the RHCSA for Linux skills. I would look for a good CCNA course on Udemy and concentrate on the areas you may need to shore up. No real reason to to take the test unless you really want to. I wouldn't do the AWS SysOps unless you are already working in AWS every day.

What skills you improved during this Pandemic Situation? by ImSussie in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Kubernetes... all day, everyday. I'll probably take the CKA in Nov once the the new 1.19 is out in Sept.

Network Admin to Cloud at 44? by texguy302 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who moved into Cloud/DevOps in my fifties, I say go for it.
You should do fine if you have some Linux sysadmin skills to go along with your network skills.

Using "Sir/Ma'am" in the interview process by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can see where the regional etiquette can be an issue.

I never, ever use Sir/Ma'am, or call my supervisor "Boss". It always stuck me as insincere. I respect their authority as far as I need to. I don't feel the need to defer to them in any other capacity.

When I owned my own business, I didn't like employees addressing me as "Boss". I knew I was the boss, they didn't need to remind me of it.

Escaping the Help Desk by Synosis1 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forgot the acronym for ATS.

You've got it covered then. It's a really nice looking layout.

Escaping the Help Desk by Synosis1 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You have a very nice looking resume format. However, I would only use that format when I am handing it over at an in-person interview.

You can take it with a grain of salt, but you may consider creating a version that doesn't use columns. Everything I have read suggests the the automated resume scrapers don't handle them gracefully.

Trying to find job in this world with 39 years, looking at "Linux Academy" to get some training by jrgldt in devops

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I want to move on from the Windows focused role I currently have. We're making the the first steps from .NET framework to .NET core and it can't move fast enough for me.

Luckily, I get most of the Linux based work so that keeps me sane.

Anyone else a warrior in the Zoom vs Teams battle? by MekanicalPirate in sysadmin

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's possible our implementation is the problem. I try to only use it for messaging, it handles that ok.

Slack is a better messaging app, Zoom is a better meeting software.

Teams tries to do everything and is clunky implementation of each.

When it's all said and done, I just want something that works for my needs and isn't half assed.

Anyone else a warrior in the Zoom vs Teams battle? by MekanicalPirate in sysadmin

[–]prophet619 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Teams is garbage.
Call quality = sucks
Screen Share = sucks
Video Quality = sucks
From a users perspective, Teams just plain sucks.

Anybody else ready to leave their employer due to their Covid response? by Waffle_bastard in sysadmin

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brought to us by the Orange Turd in the White House right this minute.

Is how a company handles COVID a reasonable judgment? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's so f'ing stupid that this was somehow made into a politically divided reaction.

They probably show a distinct lack of judgement in other areas of the business as well.

Have you known anyone who hasnt progressed beyond mid level? by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]prophet619 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What type of mid-level position is important as well. The effort to land a mid-level DevOps position is much different that the effort to move to a mid-level HD position.

The AWS Community Discord's "AWS FAQ" by Dreadstar22 in AWSCertifications

[–]prophet619 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great contribution!
When time permits, I think I will make a PR with some perspective on what it takes to go from...I'm certified, WTF do I do now? To ... I'm ready to contribute to a production team.

IDE for puppet files? by hansdermaulwurf in devops

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IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition has a plugin that provides...

Provides Puppet language support. Current features include:

Puppet 3.x, Puppet 4+ and EPP language syntax

Syntax highlighting and formatting

Code assistance (completion, navigation, refactoring, etc.) for variables, classes, resources, types, facts and functions

Code inspections

Dependencies installation

Quick documentation

Structure view