It's Never Too Late to Reinvent Yourself
summary
A personal career-transition story about moving from a support technician role to a systems administrator specializing in containers and Kubernetes. It describes making this change during a pandemic and economic crisis, learning many new terms, and how the author succeeded and rediscovered themselves along the way.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:24First talk
- 3:30Early systems career
- 7:03Linux and software freedom
- 10:14First tech job and SQL
- 12:22Public sector open source
- 14:54Technical support years
- 15:36Migration to Argentina
- 17:26Job search myths
- 20:14First sysadmin role
- 22:19Learning containers/K8s
- 24:03Pandemic study struggles
- 25:49Western Union sysadmin
- 26:53International K8s role
- 27:36Future advice
- 29:04Q&A
- 31:15Q&A: First talk
- 32:19Q&A: Age prejudice
- 34:31Q&A: Impostor syndrome
- 37:42Q&A: Future plans
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