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 No.762[Reply]

Hey guys just wanted to ask what your opinions are on getting a tech job without a degree (sysadmin or cybersec) I have done some of my own research into it and have found promising results and some positive points. My current plan is to get a few certs: RHCSA, RHCE, CCNA and comptia security+. Im fine working for a smaller company since I dont care to work at a souless corp like google or amazon or some defense contractor. Paying for college is also a pain, any advice or words of wisdom are appreciated.
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 No.764

>>763
I guess with a cybersec context it would by like one of those tryhackme labs. With sysadmin it would probably be homelabbing with extensive documentation and screen captures to prove it was you? Although one of the questions ive asked myself is why would an employer choose someone with no degree over someone with one. I guess just simply having extensive, high level projects could be the answer though HR is pretty shitty and ATS doesnt help the situation any. And the only option for prior work woukd be help desk or SOC analyst, maybe that would add to the portfolio.
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 No.765

>>764
>someone with no degree over someone with one.
Well for one thing they get to pay you less.

Hmm yeah you're going to have to think of something meaningful to work on. Maybe for inspiration look at this devops project: https://gitlab.com/simple-nixos-mailserver/nixos-mailserver
Email is stupid hard to self-host (IMO), and this makes it very easy. It has really good documentation as well.

You should probably learn kubernetes then, even though I don't like it if you want to do sysadmin stuff it's the industry standard. But for hobby stuff nixos is the way to go.

>and ATS doesnt help the situation any.

What's ATS?
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 No.766

>>765
>You should probably learn kubernetes then
I was looking into it and saw a lot about redhat openshift, it seems to make k8s easier. I have also seen a good chunk of job postings ask for openshift experience.
>What's ATS?
ATS is applicant tracking system, its an automated tool that filters out candidates based on certain keywords. It seems to cause lots of people issues even those with good resumes. I remeber hearing a pretty concerning statistic of ATS filtering out a high number of applicants with those resumes never even being seen by humans.

Its insane to me that we live in a society where we must slave away and even slaving away to a decent job is this difficult and competitive.
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 No.767

>>766
Oh fuck I hate everything to do with job applications. It's the most degrading shit ever. Why must I solicit whoring myself out, at least in slavery the slaves were guaranteed an existence.

Well maybe there's a way to game the system, prompt engineer ourselves to the top. I have had recruiters in the past even tell me: you need more keywords type shit.
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 No.768

>>765
>Email is stupid hard to self-host (IMO), and this makes it very easy.
Email self-hosting is a good privacy practice in general in addition to being good for your portfolio, I say it's a great idea. Though Nextcloud is better since it has other services like cloud storage.


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 No.11[Reply]

Welcome to the work day general.

Tell us about your day anon. Did you have a good day at work? Its OK we know work is horrible.

I work graves at a factory. If you have it shitty at work I can relate.

Tell us about your day under the crushing weight of the profit motive.
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 No.697

Work bump

Wish i was neet sometimes
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 No.698

>>697
n33t is unhappy too. i think i am gonna save u like 400k and retire early by getting a part time job.
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 No.758

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A year ago some blue haired manager who looked like Joan Jett chased me out of the supermarket because I didn't do a good job blocking the shelves even though I already went to the time clock and ended my shift.

My last 9-5 shift was awful as usual, customers flooding the aisles and asking me where shit is because they are too lazy to look themselves because they are old rich bastards getting sent to the supermarket by their waifus; they could just look at the signs above the aisles too…
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 No.759

>>758
Just keep trying to find something better. Those jobs suck for sure. Try getting into some low level operator positions in a factory or a plant if there is anything like that around you area.
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 No.761

>>11
Substitute teacher.
I like it actually :)
Last month I had a 3 week stint as 8th grade science teacher. It was nice to re-learn the basics of chemistry.
Today I'm high school English. They're reading The House of the Scorpion in 9th grade and Kafka's Metamorphosis in 12th grade. We read some aloud in 9th grade and that is always fun :)

Job doesn't pay very well but I like it


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 No.719[Reply]

switching from working s fuckass grocery job to a dishwasher at a local burger joint is amazing, I love a place I can work and know the guy who owns the restaurant and sometimes even visits to help cook and joke around with the staff, I respect a local owned business more honestly, you guys agree?
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 No.760

It’s nice at first but it wears on you after awhile


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 No.728[Reply]

What is your thoughts on 'gig economy'? What if socialism looked like a 'gig economy'?
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 No.753

>>752
Don't you think convenience can be socially necessary in an advanced economy? I thought labor becomes socially necessary at the point of exchange, so if someone is willing to pay for a commodity then it's socially necessary. It's not just the stuff we need for the survival of the species, even though that's part of it.
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 No.754

>>753
If we are talking about delivery of machinery parts than yea that's a social necessity.

>It's not just the stuff we need for the survival of the species, even though that's part of it.


This is not a bad argument but it's a terrible justification for why unskilled service jobs became the common job type of the average person
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 No.755

>>754
>It's a terrible justification for why unskilled service jobs became the common job type of the average person

We can talk about why they became the dominant sector, and I believe we can fully figure that out with facts, by looking at the history. I'd like to put a pin in that because…

What I'm actually trying to justify is service workers having a place amongst the proletariat. If we think that service workers, the predominant kind of worker today, are inherently not revolutionary because of their relation to production or whatever, or simply put if they aren't really contributing anything to society, then the consequences of that kind of freak me out.

Hear me out, that would mean that we as revolutionaries don't give a shit about them, that would mean that if there was any kind of revolutionary working class movement then it would be a minority of the population who would be the dictatorship over the rest of the urban, city dwelling, service working population, which might have a problem with what the conservative blue-collar "true" working class want to exert on them.

So how I see this is a contradiction potentially, and I'm not sure how that would be resolved. How could it be a popular movement without actually needing the majority of workers?
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 No.756

>>754
>>755
Anon let me know if I'm not making any sense…
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 No.757

>>756
You're making sense I'm just bemoaning the fact that most prime age adults are wasting away in service industry work instead of more contributive fields like mechanics, agriculture, medicine, etc.

I think part of the reason why our economy sucks is that people nowadays have to beg corporations for a job scraping grease off the griddle for a living.

It's no wonder why work ethic is low and mass shootings are at an all time high.


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 No.706[Reply]

Hey anons,
I'm currently an archivist and (substitute) teacher in the US. It's time for me to get the hell out. I know that Taiwan accepts substitute teaching licenses for public schools (most other countries require a real teaching license for public schools)

I know Taiwan was founded by the KMT, are they still fascist? Or Fascist Lite like the US? I'm just starting the process now and it's not like my heart is set on Taiwan or anything.

Has anyone else done this or heard good/bad things about it?

Comradely,
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 No.712

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>America is only Fascist Lite
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 No.713

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>only Fascist Lite™
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 No.714

>>706
>>713
>>>totally missing the point of the post and derailing it with a bunch of gore images
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 No.740

I've never taught abroad but I did work at a university abroad. I was in the Middle East so I can't comment about Taiwan, but make sure you vet the school you work at. Private universities are notoriously shitholes that violate labor laws among other things.

If you don't want to work in Taiwan, why don't you just go to China? Again, I've never been a teacher, but I'm pretty sure all you need is a bachelors and TEFL cert to start teaching English. If you want to break from that, I assume you could study for whatever cert you need online while already abroad.
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 No.741

Check out an IELTS if you can


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 No.683[Reply]

Unless you find your dream job and strike it rich, what is the point? To eventually get a house which you don’t even really own? Yours always paying shit anyways. Would rather play Overwatch.
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 No.726

>>725
>There will always be a job and if there are no jobs, that just means people are not looking hard enough.
No it doesn't.
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 No.730

>>725
>I want them to have more kids so we can eventually live in a utopia.

>That's true, but everything always happens. There will always be a job and if there are no jobs, that just means people are not looking hard enough. Or my kids can get their own jobs.


These two paragraphs contradict each other.
How can your kids be fruit full and multiply if there aren't enough jobs for everyone?

Are you aware that in small towns, unskilled labor is gatekept single parents?

Also the majority of the current job market is customer service. Blue collar jobs are lacking skilled quantity due to academic propaganda
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 No.731

>>730
When my children will grow up, they will get a job. The world will not remain static. My children will be better than other children.
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 No.735

>>731
So you're delusional.
Good to know.
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 No.736

>>731
not sure if satire


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 No.699[Reply]

I haven't made a resume in years. I am looking for a new job because the mill has become an oppressive nightmare and i refuse to work there. Can you guys help me with my resume? What website can i go to to use an outline?
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 No.700

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>>699
What I would do is just get yourself a LaTex template for a resume on a site like this: https://www.latextemplates.com/cat/curricula-vitae

unzip it, edit the .tex file (it's a bit like editing html, shouldn't be too hard) and then make a pdf with the pdflatex command.

(You can edit .tex with any text editor, or Gummi will render the document on one side for you)
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 No.733

>>700
Not OP, but thank you anon! I'll try this for my resume, it sounds useful!


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 No.715[Reply]

I have been a NEET for about two years. I dropped out of school at like 9th grade. I have no idea what I should be doing now. Is it over or should I just make up experience? Do employers even care?
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 No.716

Where have you applied?
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 No.717

>>716
Haven't applied to anything yet. I don't know if there's hope to get any sort of position. Not in this economy. Don't know what to do, at all.
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 No.718

>>717
Alright.
As a first step, I recommend making a day of going out into town and applying at every place you know. Retail, bars, clubs, restaurants, etc.

Make a resume to take with you, just write it down on a piece of paper - you dropped out in 9th grade? Did you get a GED, and, if not, do you think that you would be able to pass a GED? I'm asking strictly because it might not make that much of a difference if you simply write down that your highest level of education was "high school" and just say you graduated. Regardless, your highest level of education (we'll say 9th grade for now) goes on your resume.
Did you get any experience in anything extracurricular?

Whatever school experience you have goes on the resume, and if you've had any extracurricular experience you might want to include that, too, if you haven't had any jobs. Any gig work should also go on there.

If you aren't regularly going out into the place where you'll be looking, look at places in that area online - write down phone numbers, email addresses, etc. of the places where you're looking for work. Make a personal list for yourself of businesses where you will apply, and include whatever contact info you can find with this list.

If you know anyone who has a job, reach out to them, too. They may be able to put in a good word for you if you ask them, and they can tell you if there are any openings at the places where they work.
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 No.720

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>>718
Thank you so much for the advice anon!
>Did you get a GED, and, if not, do you think that you would be able to pass a GED?
No, I think I would be able to pass it, but with the bare minimum.
>Did you get any experience in anything extracurricular?
Not much, I developed games, and composed music, but I was an amateur at both. I wrote a lot in my blog, but I have a tendency to delete a lot of what I created. I also have created websites and own domains, and made a bunch of videos.
>Any gig work should also go on there.
I'll put it on there, should I just create a blank account, and see if it'd work out?
>If you know anyone who has a job, reach out to them, too. They may be able to put in a good word for you if you ask them, and they can tell you if there are any openings at the places where they work.
Thank you so much! I'll see if I can get in contact with some people, I've lost a lot of my hobbies recently. It's hard to be into anything.
Is retail the best? A lot of the stores I see already look to have all the employees they possibly could.


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 No.609[Reply]

idk if this is the right board but

how do i overcome laziness / procrastination? please


relating to things such as assignments
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 No.654

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asdfsadf
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 No.655

>>611
I know it sounds stupid but it's the only way.
If you think there's medical issues impeding you then you need to do something like see a docter for example.

Make sense?
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 No.656

>>609
I've never found a good way to stop procrastinating. Might as well focus on things you can actually do.
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 No.690

Stop doing assignments.
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 No.704

If you want to stop procrastination: -

1) change your environment. Go to a library or something, leave all your entertaining shit at home.
2) turn your mobile off, or lock it away
3) break down your tasks, and keep breaking them down smaller until you actually make progress. Just opening the document can be one, or working for 2 minutes, whatever it takes.
4) try the pomodoro method - agree that you will do X task for 25 minutes and then reward yourself with a 5 minute break. I find this very helpful.

The more you procrastinate, the more pressure you feel because the task gets bigger or more tasks get added to your to-do list. The more pressure you feel, the more stressed you are, the more you want to avoid the task and do something that feels enjoyable. It is a very difficult cycle to break, but you have to start somewhere, no matter how small.


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 No.693[Reply]

is this /WRK/ culture?
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 No.694

Allahu Akbar
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 No.695

such a fucking classic


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