At the highest level, this feels like it could be pretty easily compressed to two pages.

@scottalanmiller said in First Resume Critique:

@bbigford said in First Resume Critique:

In the end, the degree doesn't fit the title, but the experience does.

It exactly fits it. It's a degree for exactly what he is doing. That's where I am confused.

I'm saying I consider the experience to be the determining factor, not the degree. I consider the degree to be a bonus, and a study on theory. But the experience is where I place the title; less experience being a junior sysadmin title. The current experience exactly fits, the Master's in IT is just a bonus to me but doesn't automatically qualify a higher position.

@coliver said in Resume Critique:

@kelly Yes, that section is still a work in progress, it's the current job so still trying to figure out how best to highlight the projects and responsibilities. That's a good suggestion and I'll work on incorporating that in that section.

Just because you don't like something, doesn't mean you shouldn't put it on your resume. I would include everything. When talking about projects, say what you did not what you participated on. When in an interview, you can talk about what you did but more importantly you get to talk about what you're most interested in. The resume isn't really about what interests you, it's about what you know. Character and interests get displayed in an interview.

@danp pay range is a bit hard, that will be really variable depending on people applying. And I don't want that our lack of expertise hiring in US, combined with a poor pay range choice, make us miss opportunities.

I'll update the work days, but it's pretty standard: M-F, no weekends.

Ya I'd just move to KVM on Ubuntu. it will perform better being a type 1 and you can leverage all of the extras (things like libguestfs, the virt tools, etc).

@rojoloco said in PMP (is too short a title, so I'm adding this text):

The PiMP certification I have is worthwhile, but that's a different animal than PMP...

You ANIMAL!

@wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros:

@wrx7m said in Comparing IT Buyers and IT Pros:

What if you are both? lol

That's a hard aspect of it, there is almost always overlap. Not always, but especially in the SMB there is often quite a bit. Any SMB IT Pro will have to buy regularly. Many buyers do IT work on smaller scales so as not to have to go through the process of buying something simple.

Yeah, I am an IT pro that has to buy.

At some point, all pros have to buy sometimes. Heck even General Motors buys some of their parts from the outside!

Then the question obviously becomes - how do we compare SMB and enterprise to medicine? That's pretty simple. Obviously the SMB might attract "doctor level" IT people. This is basically the equivalent to choosing to be a small town general family doctor. Yeah, the pay is going to be way lower, but you accept that going in because you like the atmosphere or the people or the pace or the variety.

Enterprise and "IT location" cities pay the most and are similar to surgeons in major facilities like Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, or Johns Hopkins. Like any profession, there are hot spots and locations that pay better, and ones that pay less. But there are other factors that make those other things desirable. Maybe doing heart surgery all day would be depressing or gross or too much stress. Maybe helping kids stay healthy makes you happier at the end of the day.

Money is hardly the end all of a job. There are so many more things that really matter.

I'll try to keep updating the list. Want to have a good place to ask questions or have discussions on each individual topic.

@scottalanmiller said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video:

@flaxking said in The Difference Between IT and Bench Work SAMIT Video:

@scottalanmiller It is interesting that bench/IT cross discipline experience is so common, but it often happens from convenience/budget constraint or ignorance. (though sometimes it happens as a hobby) And thus being cross trained won't help you that much in advancing your career.

However IT/Dev cross discipline is super useful and there is an ongoing spike in demand for it. As well as being well paying. But Bench/IT is more common. That might be changing though. With the cloud providing another layer of abstraction from the hardware, and with learning Powershell scripting meaning you're starting to cross into Dev.

My personal belief is that DevOps is not the future of systems administration, only a stepping stone along the path. System admins aren't attempting to do something bespoke or unique, like developers are, so the use of development methodologies doesn't make sense abstractly within IT circles. Right now, a lack of advanced tooling for what admins need creates a need for DevOps, but only to fill an existing gap - one that I know of at least one company working to fill. Once the power of Devops exists without the need for developer knowledge or experience, I think that we will rapidly see that category disappear again.

I think you're probably right, when we're talking about interdisciplinary IT/Dev skills and the misnamed 'DevOps Engineer' role. Eventually that will be automated and abstracted away. At which point mixing IT and Dev will as inherently valuable as mixing any other discipline with Dev, and it would make more sense to be talking about the value of Bench/Dev vs. IT/Dev.

However the 'power of DevOps' is a whole other can of worms.

Getting the Server+ can help encourage companies to hire you for higher level bench work. Almost no one has it, so it can be a huge differentiator.

Youtube Video

I hadn't even thought of mentioning that, but it actually came on in the background as I was posting the last post, so very good timing.

@tim_g said in Visual Resumes?:

I followed the format LinkedIn uses. Skills & some Certs at the top, current/previous jobs below, with each having my main responsibilities for each job, then any education/cert clarification.

Yeah, I've never seen the project listing outside of SW. I'm sure it's out there, but it's not something I commonly encountered until finding it on SW.

I think the technology experience you list depends on whether it is 1) relatable to the technology the new role requires you to use or 2) is specifically the technology the new role requires you to use. Anything else is just noise. I'd encourage you to watch the video here
titled A Recruiter's Advice to the IT Pro. It has some good advice for LinkedIn, etc.

Make sure LinkedIn is updated with all of your skills and experience (and I mean all of it). Then take that and whittle down to those items that can be highlighted to get you the new job.

@jaredbusch said in SaltStack State: DNF-Automatic:

@tim_g said in SaltStack State: DNF-Automatic:

@jaredbusch said in SaltStack State: DNF-Automatic:

This would be the default one that comes down with the package. So that means there is nothing to grab.

Correct. I installed it on something first to get the config files, so I know what I'm working with.

That is more work and does nothing to help you when the file is updated upstream.

I did find how to easily modify files with SaltStack: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.file.html#salt.modules.file.replace

But I think I would still rather host my own config file(s) at least for now. If they change in future updates, I'll just modify the config files on GitLab.

Anyways, link above for future reference when I come back to this later.

@scottalanmiller said in Arg! XenApp!:

@dbeato said in Arg! XenApp!:

@scottalanmiller said in Arg! XenApp!:

@dbeato said in Arg! XenApp!:

@scottalanmiller said in Arg! XenApp!:

@dbeato said in Arg! XenApp!:

@travisdh1 said in Arg! XenApp!:

@dbeato said in Arg! XenApp!:

See below:
https://www.parallels.com/blogs/ras/what-is-ica-citrix/

So, basically, it's expensive RDP with the same latency issues. Why companies, why? Guess it's another "I'll tell you it's a bad idea and then you'll pay me for all the extra time it's going to take" situations. That assumes they can find anyone who will touch it.

Yes, you can do the same with VDI and remote apps.

Well, ICA is one way to do VDI and remote apps, lol.

I meant native VDI

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/rds-supported-config

What does Native VDI mean? VDI only refers to something being virtualized. RDS is as much native VDI as any other remoting technology. VDI is just one to one usage, instead of many to one. VDI predates any modern VDI associated technologies.

Okay, in my case not involving additional software or application to set it up that is not Microsoft.

RDS is all Microsoft. But MS and VDI have no tie together. You can do VDI with nothing but KVM and Linux guests.
I get it... trying to place a standard into a box, ny bad.

My first smartphone was a Palm Treo 650 I picked up around 2005, and I even had a GPS bluetooth adapter and SD card filled up with a map of the US and Canada during my truck driving days. You can put the geek in a truck, but you can't make him any less geeky!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treo_650

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