I have gone back to school – currently seeking a AAS in Linux System Administration. I am very hopeful for 2018 and what adventures (fun and/or challenging) that it might hold. So those experiences aren’t as broad or deep as I would like.Īnd good riddance 2017!! You were a very bad year! Unfortunately, unless you pay extra or work in the field, modern web hosts don’t generally give you console access. It also helps that I have experience with command line in several other contexts (Putty and mySQL). I make a lot of comparative connections between the two. It turns out I have a really high recall of old MS-DOS which is not the same as LINUX commands but the quite similar. Our testing has been lightweight so far and most of it is stuff I know already. I was pretty torqued when my VM was no where to be found the 2nd week of class! This means that I can log in from home and do homework and labs and see all that progress when I login at school.

We do most things in the console provided through a separate company and not the college.

Other students in the class are really nice (YAY! and YAY!).

The traffic is crazy and parking is wack (BOO!).He doesn’t mind if you do though (YAY!).The professor is very passionate (YAY!).The pros and cons of my current Linux class – four weeks in: That gamble is too risky.I am currently enrolled in community college pursuing a AAS in Linux Sys Admin. Maintain the power, which lies in your network and networking skills, instead of passively giving control over 100% of your income to your boss. I’ve tried it more than once, both times it stung me. No longer can we sit back and think “If I just do a good job, I’ll have a good job.” No. And if the employment landscape continues to change, and as the gig economy (aka side hustle) becomes more important to our financial security, we need to be more serious about our career management. We need to figure out how we are going to make a living. I don’t want to sound like all I’m focused on is jobs and careers. Once you land your job, you continue to use JibberJobber as you network, meet new colleagues, etc.Īt any time you use JibberJobber to organize your prospects and clients and past clients for your “side hustle,” whether that is car detailing, photography, art, baking, consulting… or a mix of side hustles. It is the tool that can become more important than LinkedIn (good for leads) and Facebook (good for entertainment). Here’s where JibberJobber kicks in: you might have thought of it as a job search tool… something you ignore after you land your job. And as bleak as my job search was in 2006, my 2018 was okay, even after losing a six figure job. That was the “job security” I had been writing about since 2006. The depth of that impersonal business decision would have been devastating if it weren’t for my side gigs. Nothing personal, of course, merely a business decision. I was making six figures at a salaried job and because of stuff outside of my control I got the boot. And then you start thinking “You know, I should monetize my hobby.” Or, “I should start consulting,” or a catering business, or a photography business, or start selling real estate, or walking dogs, or whatever it is that you think of that you would like, and could do, to generate a few hundred to a few thousand dollars on the side.īecause one day “the side” might be “the main income.” That happened to me last year. You don’t worry that you will have zero income, until it happens. Because having multiple income streams is career management.īut when you are working in your dream job you don’t think that anything will happen… until it does. Then, as I got further and further down the entrepreneur (rabbit) hole, and I became enamored with creating multiple income streams, and I saw my users getting frustrated with switching jobs every 2 to 5 years, I realized that JibberJobber could serve them well not just in a job search, but in all of their income stream endeavors. I was a firm believer that no one would land a dream job and keep it for the rest of their career… unless, of course, the rest of their career was two years away. When we launched the tagline said something about job search, but within a week we changed it to reflect that it was a career management tool. well, make that 13 years ago, when I was starting JibberJobber, I had a vision that this would NOT be a tool for your right-now job search, but that you would use it for the rest of your career.

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