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To Linux admins: What certifications/degrees do you guys have? (lemmy.world)

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I'm trying to decide whether it would be worth spending an additional 2 years upgrading my associates to a bachelor's in CS or not.

I don't see much of a demand for the RHCSA in my area (Toronto, Canada) but I see that basically every job posting has a degree requirement.

I'd be 25 by the time I finish school with the degree but I honestly just want to start applying for jobs I don't want to waste time.

I have the A+, CCNA and LFCS. I get my associates next week.

I'm aware that I'll probably get a bunch of responses of people saying "I don't have a degree or certifications!" but I'm genuinely confused as to how you're in IT without either of those things unless you knew someone or got in very early so some elaboration would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

See a lot of "no higher Ed, just learned from experience." any tips on things to do to gain more experience in sysadmin adjacent skills?

I like to think I'm quite competent with Windows/Linux, been a computer geek since I was really young, in a senior "tech support" position, but the kind of things I do at work are usually less advanced then the random side projects I do for fun... I'm basically the Linux guy for our group but that's not saying much as the support is next to 0 until you get to an actual product role.

It feels like you'd have to have the job to get the experience, but maybe I'm just not aware of what/if there are any particular projects or things to do that could help with more sysadmin side knowledge.

To give a quick easy example, I have a friend who just started a server maintence type role at a different company and was tasked with setting up a Linux server, she ran into several snags trying to set it up with the documentation she was provided by the company, I asked what distro was it, and what commands was she running? Turns out it was just that she waa given instructions for YUM rather then APT (it was Ubuntu) lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did like one semester of computer science, does that count?

Honestly I just google shit until I understand it. Linux has great documention, and where it fails you can just read the source code.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same, I do mean moreso building particular skills that businesses are looking for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If it helps, 80% of the work i do when wearing my sysadmin hat is just ensuring that all of our systems are communicating properly.