Interview with a Linux System Engineer

0:00 Intro
0:49 Early tech interest
2:20 What did "the tech industry" look like to you before you got into it?
4:55 Chasing the chill tech life dream
5:51 How to get into Linux
8:03 How to really learn tech skills
9:59 Learning with a busy life
10:48 Getting your loved ones to use Linux
13:51 Working at a web hosting company
15:54 Surprises at Cameron's first tech gig
17:05 The Hell of Datacenters
20:10 On-call discussion in interviews
22:25 SRE, DevOps
26:50 From Ops to DevOps
29:35 Targeting the right company culture
33:06 Mid-Career Mentorship
40:15 Recognizing mentors
43:27 "Passion" in job ads

[@ABShinobi]

"Everybody loves to have Engineer on their title"...felt that

[@nontraditionaltech2073]

Thanks for the great talk y’all! As mentioned, I’m also knocking at the mid-career door. Trying to make the move to level 3 in a good way. Since my time interning and being full-time at my current company, I feel my career would transition nicely into a devops role. That’s the goal, we’ll see what happens 😎

[@davidd8355]

thank you I've learnt alot from your conversation

[@MarkBajcar-xh9bk]

Good video guys - Great advice. Stay rad 🤙🤙

[@nathanielnderson]

This video hits me heavily. I feel as though I'm such an odd state at my job where I'm leading a new implementation of Rancher. Started fresh off the platter 2 years ago and I feel like I've come such an insanely long way but I'm at the point now where I don't know what direction I want or should head. It's just a shame because my work place is incredible for growth but I struggle to want to stay here due to the amount of money I know I'm losing out on. But also with only 2 years under my belt I feel like it's really difficult to get my leg in the door in other places handling similar things that are as hands off as my current place is. Talk about mr. bones wild ride.

[@Herbertech]

Great interview! Lots of similarities with my career!

[@bobbylopez4431]

Thanks!

[@Alexithymiander]

Relatable... I have fond memories of teaching my grandma how to e-mail me using her new Linux (something debian based) laptop.

[@UrinTrolden]

Had no idea ninja brian was a system engineer!

[@Bazowat]

30:19 - lol Seeking coding ninjas and out of the box thinkers 🤢

[@softwareasafun]

Thanks!

[@tutoriaLinux]

Woot, you're my first super thanks (just turned it on)! Appreciate it