I wanna know how to get one of these damn jobs; I currently play with shit like Proxmox and high availability clusters at home just for a laugh, and because I enjoy it; but with no formal education - and I’m making peanuts at work rn. I wish I could break into this somehow.
Find a decent MSP and grind there for a few years. It’ll suck but you’ll touch a ton of different environments in a short time, and get exposed to all sorts of broken things.
Find someone (online) that can guide you. Make sure you do all the work though, and just let the senior put you KB the right track and only help you with things you’re really stuck at. That’s one way to get the experience you really need
One way is LinkedIn, another would be to ask for a mentor in a small online community where everyone have a shared interest. I think the most safe bet however is to do this through the people you already know, they might know someone who knows someone who could take on the role of a mentor.
I wanna know how to get one of these damn jobs; I currently play with shit like Proxmox and high availability clusters at home just for a laugh, and because I enjoy it; but with no formal education - and I’m making peanuts at work rn. I wish I could break into this somehow.
Find a decent MSP and grind there for a few years. It’ll suck but you’ll touch a ton of different environments in a short time, and get exposed to all sorts of broken things.
Are even MSPs hiring? Seems like everyone everywhere is getting laid off without respite.
Not sure, I’ve been out of that space for a long time.
The industry is pretty bad right now everywhere, it’ll pick back up… eventually.
The one I work at is, but it’s a smaller operation with about 250 clients, from 4 separate offices.
Lucky
This is my 3rd data center. Mainframe experience helps.
These guys claim to want a degree, but really will take a warm body:
https://careers-tierpoint.icims.com/jobs/2572/operations-technician-i/job
The pay is still peanuts, though.
Find someone (online) that can guide you. Make sure you do all the work though, and just let the senior put you KB the right track and only help you with things you’re really stuck at. That’s one way to get the experience you really need
How do you go about finding the mentor sort of person? I’ve never been able to develop a relationship like that online.
One way is LinkedIn, another would be to ask for a mentor in a small online community where everyone have a shared interest. I think the most safe bet however is to do this through the people you already know, they might know someone who knows someone who could take on the role of a mentor.
Discord channels can also be useful for that