[TriLUG] Linux Careers in the Triangle

[Greg Pubill via TriLUG]

Hi,

Thanks for asking, my degree is called "Technical Management" from 
DeVry, and quite honestly I would have preferred Computer Science or 
Information Systems but that was the program that accepted most of my 
aging credits.

I did however, made sure I took Networking courses for every elective I 
took and just last month I passed the CCNA exam. But really I would love 
to stay focused on Linux, I took the CCNA because some advisors really 
talk it up as a "hot cert"

I know my degree sound more like "Project Management" but I really don't 
want to be the guy working from Gantt charts :-)

I would rather work towards becoming a subject matter expert in Linux, 
which I know platforms are moving to cloud computing and VMs so I think 
the network background should help too.

Thank you,

Greg



On 07/23/2015 10:41 AM, R Radford wrote:
> What degree did you just complete, from where, and what prompted you 
> to get that degree (ie: what did you want to do with it)?
>
> Those are all important questions to aid in understanding what your 
> next steps could/should be...
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Greg Pubill via TriLUG 
> <trilug at trilug.org <mailto:trilug at trilug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Hi TriLUG,
>
>     As a recent arrival to the group I would like to ask for any
>     suggestions/comments/advice from senior members which may help
>     focus my Linux career path.
>
>     I'm at a stage where I have recently completed my degree, which
>     took me a while, my daughter is in college herself. I have worked
>     with several Linux distros but I don't feel I've gotten so much
>     experience out of if because my responsibilities were install,
>     edit config files and ship it out. So this was a little repetitive.
>
>     If you were on my shoes; where would you go next?
>
>     For example, would I want to learn programming (C, C++) or; would
>     I want to focus on cloud computing (Hadoop, OpenStack...) or maybe
>     web development?
>
>     I have more time these days, my contract recently ended. I could
>     use this time to prepare for a cert, or audit a class, or follow
>     some online training course to sharpen my skills.
>
>     Any thoughts you can share would really help me personally, and
>     who knows it might even serve to help others thinking about
>     careers in Linux and open source.
>
>     Greg
>     -- 
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