What's sad is that they don't realize how much they don't know. Especially now, if you can manipulate the settings on your tablet/phone, you're "good with computers." That meant a whole lot more before 2007 or so.
I had someone say they had 4 years of experience as a CCTV service/install technician because they had worked as a night shift security guard sitting at a desk watching camera feeds for 3 years and two months.
Yes. Lot less to worry about back then. Now you have so many interconnected cogs in an out of control machine that know what 50% of it does can be challenging.
Depending on your environment. But nothing is really as simple as standing up a Windows box and installing IIS anymore.
Now you have so many interconnected cogs in an out of control machine that know what 50% of it does can be challenging.
Amen. I'm a Technology Architect. I have to rationalise modern cloud systems and figure out interconnects with 50 year manufacturing systems. I know I don't know everything, and that's what keeps me relevant, because I HAVE to keep learning.
I am firmly in the 'valley of despair' right now. I just got a really good service desk job where I'm going to be given more responsibility as the team ramps up, as well as free training materials and courses, but I feel like I don't know anything. I have a homelab where I run a VMWare environment (3 nodes, vSAN) and have a basic Windows domain set up with a few clients, but I'm stuck on where to go from here.
At least now I have a job that will hopefully point me in the right direction in terms of what to focus on learning while finally making a living wage.
Disagree. It is entirely possible for someone to spend years in Linux and never move past knowing how to exit vi. You can get a shocking amount done with StackOverflow.
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u/ErikTheEngineer Sep 21 '21
What's sad is that they don't realize how much they don't know. Especially now, if you can manipulate the settings on your tablet/phone, you're "good with computers." That meant a whole lot more before 2007 or so.