[TriLUG] Linux Careers in the Triangle

[Jonathan Mainguy via TriLUG]

I got my degree in accounting, I wouldn't worry too much about what your
degree is called. There are alot of job opportunities that get presented at
the various meetups around here, TriLug, Triangle Devops are two good ones
for networking. RedHat user group is another

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Greg Pubill via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> 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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