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.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      My entire devops career started with writing stupid E2 programs in GMOD and hosting a private Minecraft server (IIRC it was Bukkit or something similar). This is the real pride and accomplishment.

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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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.