[TriLUG] Linux Careers in the Triangle

[Sean Korb via TriLUG]

One of the best sysadmins I ever met had a degree in History.

What do you like to do now?  I like to watch TV so I set up a MythTV box.
Strangely, that had the same systems that were needed for a Biotech
Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).  A way to ingest data,
schedule the ingest, transform the data, refactor and store the data, keep
track of metadata, provide web and API services and keep all the good stuff
in a database that you can upgrade when the next release comes out.

It has all the things.

I work in Biotech and we always need more people that know how all the
things work.  Now I get to work with Hadoop, Mongo and all the flavors of
the month.  And I hang out with cool scientists all day.   It's not
watching TV, but it's fun.

sean

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:10 AM, Greg Pubill via TriLUG <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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