Hey /g/ wanted your opinion about sysadmins and their careers.

How "easy" is it to start an administration job/career? With easy I mean without any qualifications beforehand. I'm 27 years old if that matters and I have a degree in an unrelated field (and I've never worked a day in my life).

>>59314901
OP here.All it took me to get a Junior UNIX sysadmin position in in worldwide large bank was learning linux basics for a few days. And my IT degree probably also helped. I did shit on the test they gave me, but somehow i went through.

no one else to share opinions?

>>59314914

The "Linux" experience is my least problem since I've been using it almost exclusively for more than 2 years now. I think what did it for you was the degree.

>>59314851
>UNIX sysadmin
so you own a mac, .... and?

>>59314851
You will be devops anyway or fired thanks to automatization.

>>59314914
>>59315032
Linux is the name of the kernel that Linus Torvalds developed starting in 1991. The operating system in which Linux is used is basically GNU with Linux added. To call the whole system “Linux” is both unfair and confusing. Please call the complete system GNU/Linux, both to give the GNU Project credit and to distinguish the whole system from the kernel alone.

bamp. Is there any point for sysadmin of 24yo with no programming experience to start learning Python?

>>59315241

By the time you were waiting for answers you could have finished the first chapter in this book.

https://www.pearsonhighered.com/product/Gaddis-Starting-Out-with-Python-3rd-Edition/9780133582734.html

>>59315241

Genuinely question, do you not program on a regular basis as a sysadmin already? I did a year as an admin and half of the job was keeping the system afloat by writing perl scripts to handle weird edge cases before any of the data we were processing even got the programs written by the developers.

>>59314914
>IT Degree
>>59314851
>0 programming experience
how?

>>59314851
>0 programming experience
You never had drunk programmer deploy shit? That's usually when sysadmin forced to learn debugging/profiling and to lesser extent programming

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>>59314851
>navigate filesystem, edit files
Look, Ma! I'm a sysadmin now!

>>59316781
Have the hint of sysadmin.

>>59314851
>sysadmin
>programming
???

>>59315074
>basically GNU with Linux added
Cite? That GNU exceeds MIT, BSD etc in volume on a normal Linux installation, say Ubuntu or Redhat.