Ask HN: How to get back to Unix after a sales job?

2 points by iapetos 14 years ago | 2 comments

I am currently working in Marketing /Sales. I do have a bachelors in CS and how I got here is a whole different story. However, I do feel left out of the IT race, for the lack of better words. So to sum up I had an IT background wherein I had a month or so of UNIX admin mentoring/training. It was Solaris mostly and I loved it. But I moved on to seek a challenging opportunity. That being said I still want to do some Unix Admin on the side. What would be a good resource or who will be willing to hire me for remote work or something of that sort ? Please advise

shaunxcode 14 years ago |

just do it? I'd suggest spinning up a few flavors of *nix on aws/linode or what not (which you can probably do at the free tier level) and just get to grips w/ the different package managers and what not. I'd also say brush up on your bash skills and probably pick up python and node js while you are at it.

iapetos 14 years ago | |

so when u say free tier level are you referring to linode or AWS ? because I do not see any free subscription on linode and I am still browsing AWS. Can you please let me know what you are referring to since what you suggested sounds like a good idea to me.

EDIT: I found it on AWS. This sounds good I am about to signup. Thanks again.