Canopyflyer

Dungeons and Dragons miniatures and all the paints I want to paint them. When I was a kid, I couldn’t afford more than just the characters I was playing.

Now I have hundreds and my wife, who has a lot of artistic talent, has taken to painting them with enthusiasm.

I just saw my last sentence and cringed. I meant to say there’s no reason for you to NOT crack a book and start learning. Sorry about that.

Programming, or Software Development is not Sysadmin work. While becoming a Software Developer will give you some Sys Admin skills, that’s the long way to go about it, if your primary goal isn’t to be a Developer.

Experience sells in Information Technology. Next in line are Certifications. Getting a helpdesk job would be your first step. While working on the helpdesk, start studying for certifications. It is said that Microsoft Engineers drive their Chevy’s, Network Engineers drive BMW’s, and Linux engineers fly their private jet to work.

If you have no experience, then start looking for low end help desk jobs and start studying ASAP. There are many online study guides and courses.

Self study here, but I’ve been in IT for almost 30 years now.

For someone that is determined most of the certifications out there can be attained through self study. That’s how I got my MCSE, CCNA, Red Hat Linux, and CLP (Certified Lotus Professional, yeah I know, no one has ever heard of it). I studied while working a helpdesk job and was hired by the sysadmin department of the same company. I attained the CLP, because at the time 2002 or so, there were not many Lotus/ Domino admins and there were a lot of companies, particularly insurance companies and Coca Cola, used it extensively. Being a Lotus/Domino admin got me a lot of attention at the time, but today it is worthless.

Knocking door to door with a cert and no actual experience will be a much tougher route to take, but it is definitely possible.

If it is what you want to do, there is no reason for you to crack a book today and start learning.

Is that the view from the post surgery Cat Scan?

A friend of mine told me all about just how better she felt after cutting gluten completely out of her diet.

I was shocked and asked her when she was diagnosed with celiac.

She asked what is celiac?

Oh for fucks sake. Up till that moment I thought she actually had two brain cells to rub together.

The problem with all these idiots, while they have caused more gluten free options to market, the costs have skyrocketed for people that actually require a gluten free diet.

Boeing’s quality processes have shown to be very lacking and are not engineering driven, but rather cost cutting and profit driven. They could not even catch bolts MISSING from a door plug on a brand new air frame.

That is the antithesis of flight safety.

MBA’s are making decisions regarding complex engineering problems that really should be left to their betters.

Boeing richly deserves every bit of backlash heading their way. They have killed hundreds of people by slapping band aids on a 55 year old air frame in an attempt to keep it current. When they should have been working on a clean sheet design 20 years ago.

I am friends with someone that worked at TSR during the 2e days (he’s not mentioned in the video). The only thing he had to say about Gary Gygax, was this: “Gary owes me money.” He did not have a lot of positive things to say about his time at TSR.