weirdly I'm still a Linux administrator but with way more fun services to maintain.
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Can I ask how you got a job as a Linux administrator?
Easy, you mention you want to use BSD and the other IT guys give you that look.
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I'm not a Linux admin, but I think there are certifications you can get and exams you can take to show you understand stuff about shell scripting and related topics, if that's what you're interested in.
I think they have questions like "Make it so a welcome message and the time display when someone logs into your Linux server", among other, harder things.
I don't know a huge amount about the job market, but just saying you have those kinds of skills on your CV along with a bit of experience in some other tech/coding/data stuff might even be enough.
Been using Linux for 25 years so i don't know if it's comparable to today but ironically it was setting up game servers for fun. Then i applied for a game sever hosting provider. i think they have mostly died out now. Then just kinda jumped over to web hosting this was before cloud was a thing. Then kinda moved into internal IT running corporate IT. The nice thing being 100% Linux admin i don't have to mess with AD and FSMO. Even though I know how to i keep quiet about that.
Huh, I now get paid to waste time staring at the internet. Neat, I guess?
'office/M365 tutor for geriatrics'
Compared to actual title
"Director of Information Systems"
Every day makes me understand Marvin from HHGTTG more and more.
I feel that in my soul. I'm a sysadmin, however it's mostly password resets ๐ฅฒ
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RN = Refreshments and Narcotics
Are you me?
Director of building Magic the Gathering commander decks but not actually playing them
I feel you. Moxfield is my greatest enemy.
Greeeeat, now I'm jerking off someone for money.
Jokes aside, writing is the predominant single activity I engage in that's in the spirit of the question, and I've made some money doing it here and there. But it was never my job.
As an Uber driver, I do everything I can to put people at ease. I end up in many deep, heartfelt conversations with my passengers. I introduce people to new music, and spread information about homeless assistance programs and other resources around the Denver area.
Uber is the platform from which I do my work as a community supporter.
I do Uber my own way, according to my vision. I am an Uber Mensch.
Professional slanderer of programming languages.
I've spent more time than I care to admit
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You guys have time for other things? I do my job and can fill my day with that. I sometimes have to stand my ground to make other people understand that no, I cannot do this additional tasks everyday, I don't have the time for that.
95% of the time it is busy. The other 5% I use to catch up with the stuff I have no time for when it is busy.
If I didn't make time to do anything besides work and sleep like that I would literally go insane after about 2 weeks
Well that is when I am at work. My work times are clearly defined and when the time is over, I go home. So I am limited to about 8 hours in a day, with a very rare exception of 15 minutes longer.
After work and in the weekends I still have time to chill, but at work I have no downtime except for breaks. Luckily my boss also knows how busy we are and doesn't complain if I cannot get everything finished, he just tells me what is a priority and what not.
That is really helpful for the stress levels, but it is still a pretty stressful job.
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Professional Cat Petter! ๐ป
Professional YouTube Watcher or Professional Hobbyist Language Learner.
Guitarist/cross stitcher, with a side job as a professional TV watcher lol
Professional manual analysis of herbal terpinoid content (ignition-form expert).
I'm a professional social media browser.
I think I'd actually kill myself.
Professional sleeper.
That should pretty much be the answer for anyone with a full-time job.
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There was this Russian developer who got jailed for something a couple years back. I've looked up his website and it was a giant field of mines. Up to the challenge, I've proceeded for weeks to try to clear it during work hours. Finally managed and all I got was something akin to a laugh.wav as a reward.
Guess I'm a minesweeper.
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Sleeping
Power point archivist and people tracker downer!
~~I really don't want to play Arma professionally~~ I misunderstood the question
I basically do farming at the level of a second job, so I suppose it would be that even though I don't do it commercially (yet).
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Human Lemming
Sysadmin cosplayer or Barista.
Linux Sysadmin. Funnily enough, that's the career I'm in after procrastinating a lot during my ecology studies.
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Current Job title: programmer
Effective job title: Sysadmin.
VR game level designer. Neat!
Well, I would be a comic book creator... With video game screenshots.
I'm a pro TTRPG think-abouter... Or a pro Pathfinder prepper.
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