@Itachixkurosaki Between school and your activities, that is quite a list.
Perhaps when you have more time you could pick one or two of those activities and create a topic or article and discuss them in detail. I believe that would be quite interesting. Meanwhile, welcome back; I’ve been out of town myself visiting my daughter and my grandson!
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I think my career may look funny and curious.
Metalworker at my sixteen, woodworker somewhat later, student and post-graduate student on industrial automation, sapper lieutenant, columnist/stringer on IT at weekly newspaper, computer graphics (3d/2d animation and ads) artist at private TV company, software developer, Windows/Linux server and IT infrastructure administrator, network administrator, deputy IT CEO, IS CEO at financial…
Really funny, eh?
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Me here imagining how much money I would save if I had even just a little of this experience! 
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@ugnvs That is a very impressive collection of skills! I hope you’ve enjoyed the many things you have done. I know when you rise to the level of CEO of any kind the “money” is usually “there”. A better question is if it’s funny that you can do all of that, and are you still enjoying what you do? Hopefully the answer is a resounding yes and that you resonate well with the people you lead. Hopefully that is the case because you have such a broad background!
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Thank you!
I think it is funny because I surprised myself having followed that track at all 
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As a “boss” do you get any decent opportunities to chat with “average” employees? Some of the best leaders I’ve seen during my past career did enjoy interacting with others, but meetings and stuff like that did tend to limit those opportunities to either quarterly meetings or encounters at the “coffee nooks”!
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Yes, I do have and I do. Frankly, the team is not that large. Due to the fact I am as much a manager as a player. And managerial activities not that often demand more than a half of my time.
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Dominic, we’re still happy to have you around. When you have that bootable image working, tell us a story about your adventure if you can spare a few minutes of your time. Best wishes in getting that bootable image working.
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@markjason I wish you success. I’m glad to read that you are studying about how Linux is built internally. The more you learn the better you’ll do.
In the mid 1990s (yes, decades ago), I read as much about Linux as I could, then I went to a bookstore, looking for a good, in depth book about installing a solid Linux system. I read it, earmarked and notated a number of things before trying it, and when I did so I had success in my first attempt. Granted I was already a senior software engineer working in a UNIX Operating Systems group at the time of doing this; I did not build kernels, but I did check in localization and internationalization code, mostly either defect updates to the I18N stuff or additional locales that I checked in to our code base after working closely with language translators to do the language and user interface changes. I also wrote tools to expedite this process, so that learning was fairly applicable to my Linux inauguration.
I hope whatever you’re doing helps you to gain a really solid understanding; best wishes!
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Eugene, that’s awesome. In that case you must love your job!
Congratulations on your numerous accomplishments and your friendly, helpful attitude. Often these characteristics are as useful as other skills; if you have these, plus the attributes you clearly have, you are a “rock star” in everything you do! Glad you mentioned this; huge hurrah!
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Will do, I have a personal investment into trying to get it working since I can use the said image to fix my own mistakes.
Because it will happen regrettably.
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Hello everyone. I work in IT and have been for the last 20 years. I started off in healthcare IT and then moved on to other various industries ranging from a global real estate investment firm to local small MSPs. For the last 10 years I’ve ended back in healthcare IT and currently am a SysAdmin that manages servers for hospitals all over the US. My first distro I ever touched is Debian. I have a pretty nice home lab with a 3 node ESXi cluster that I use to learn and keep my skills sharp while hosting some things for my personal use. I run various different distros in my home lab such as Debian, Ubuntu, RedHat, Fedora, Rocky, and obviously ESXi. I don’t really have an all-time favorite distro, but I do lean heavily on the Debian based ones. I have a Docker Swarm cluster running on Ubuntu and another one running on RedHat. I’m comparing the two I suppose but it’s been fun learning Docker and Linux.
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Welcome! 20 years in IT and a 3 node ESXi cluster at home, you’ll fit right in here.
Curious how the Red Hat Docker Swarm compares to Ubuntu for you, especially with Red Hat pushing Podman so hard. Looking forward to seeing you around the forum! 
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I’m Fishman and I have been using Linux since 2010. I’m a retired computer tech not I.T. which has nothing to do with being a Tech. I built my first PC in 1976 when I was 11 years old. Since then I have worked for I.B.M., myself and other minor PC Shops. Linux means software freedom to me and total system control without any intervention from the developers.
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Hi @fishman64 you built your first PC 3 years before I was born. I tell people about that distinction as well. But you know IT is slung around like a one size fits all cap.
If you get a chance check out some of the threads where we share our setups, interests, projects, etc.
Welcome to our community!
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well definitely give thought to this once i get everything working the way i want it lol
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So happy to see more of you joining in and introducing yourselves. Quite a few of you have fascinating stories to tell, and not ALL of them involve just work with computers; we have quite a few people with fantastic, multiple skills, so if you’re not a guru with computers, that’s more than okay; many of you have awesome skills that I lack.
What I treasure here are the collective skills of the group who choose to join and communicate here. I’ve seen people who can make dish or clothes washers hum and work properly; those are skills that I do not have. There are skilled people who maintain equipment; they may get their hands dirty but they have valuable skills. My typing is perhaps “okay”, but given the number of years I’ve used computing machines it’s terrible, yet some of you can probably type over 100 words a minute; my point is that our diverse skills are all worthwhile and valuable and I look forward to reading many of your stories!
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I’m a Linux system administrator in the Solar System Exploration Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. I probably won’t be too active here (I’m terrible about online communities these days); I joined because it’s always good to have people to bounce ideas off of.
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We would be honored to bounce ideas with you also. On average most forum members are not very active, but all play a role and there’s no activity required.
Make sure to adjust your profile email preferences. I believe by default it’s set to weekly. You can change it to monthly or disable it:
Welcome!! 
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How cool! I am a space nerd!
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