By employed I mean get a job in the industry either offline or online. Ideally something that would highly likely remain in-demand in the near future.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I work in cybersecurity now, though I spent about 15 years in Systems Administration. I credit my career to my father buying a computer and letting me tinker with it. There were two factors that taught me a ton about computers:

    1. Creating boot disks for games (this was back in the heyday of MS-DOS).
    2. Realizing “oh shit, I had better fix this before dad gets home.”

    Nothing teaches how to work on computers quite like working on a computer. And much of that “working” is actually figuring out how to un-fuck the computer you just fucked up.

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      9 months ago

      The last part is a gem I will forever love.
      Nothing quite like the oh fuck.

      The job equivalent for the customer is us saying “That’s unusual” :)