Nicely done on the certificate-earning! Hope you find a bunch of local companies that need a soothing voice-on-the-phone tech support person, or an in-person gig where you can show up and make things better.
I'm a bit of a credential-lover myself... if I know how to do something and enjoy doing it, it's even BETTER to have a piece of paper/pile of pixels that SAYS I'm qualified. Like, my own competence just isn't quite enough - better get a few more acronyms on my resume. 🙂
Hey Jeremy, thanks for writing this newsletter - I've been doing some similar chopping and changing and struggling (less guitar, more tech side projects and meditation and home improvement), and it's cool to read along. It's been damn hard to swap out some of the stones in the brickwork that makes up our day-to-day life during this godawful pandemic time, huh? I really admire you documenting it all, and it's nice to read about someone else's enthusiasms and projects and figuring-out.
I got into IT as a self taught person 7or 8 years ago now. In the three different places I've worked over that time, being able to listen carefully to a person with a problem and take satisfaction in solving it has always seemed like a huge part of the job.
I am not in the USA, and I landed straight in systems administration without ever really doing front-line tech support, but if it would be useful to talk to someone in the general tech ops/admin field I'd be happy to.
Wordle: How about you give a similar, 100% guaranteed definitely non-timed game a try. It's called word master and can be found here: https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/
Nicely done on the certificate-earning! Hope you find a bunch of local companies that need a soothing voice-on-the-phone tech support person, or an in-person gig where you can show up and make things better.
I'm a bit of a credential-lover myself... if I know how to do something and enjoy doing it, it's even BETTER to have a piece of paper/pile of pixels that SAYS I'm qualified. Like, my own competence just isn't quite enough - better get a few more acronyms on my resume. 🙂
Hey Jeremy, thanks for writing this newsletter - I've been doing some similar chopping and changing and struggling (less guitar, more tech side projects and meditation and home improvement), and it's cool to read along. It's been damn hard to swap out some of the stones in the brickwork that makes up our day-to-day life during this godawful pandemic time, huh? I really admire you documenting it all, and it's nice to read about someone else's enthusiasms and projects and figuring-out.
I got into IT as a self taught person 7or 8 years ago now. In the three different places I've worked over that time, being able to listen carefully to a person with a problem and take satisfaction in solving it has always seemed like a huge part of the job.
I am not in the USA, and I landed straight in systems administration without ever really doing front-line tech support, but if it would be useful to talk to someone in the general tech ops/admin field I'd be happy to.
Wordle: How about you give a similar, 100% guaranteed definitely non-timed game a try. It's called word master and can be found here: https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/