John Wilkes Booth

honestly i dunno if sysadmin is even what i was studying for... here the job ads i see seem to call it network administrator. basically i was studying maintaining and troubleshooting company networks.. which for the most part translated to working with windows servers and clients and cisco networking equipment and protocols.

mostly it's learning arbitrary details about specific software + learning how to apply that knowledge to general troubleshooting. which i would guess you could do tbh batlord.. it just comes down to whether you are disciplined enough to force yourself to get it down.

i was originally interested more in computer science but they told me in terms of getting a job i was better off learning this. for computer science you really want a bachelors and possibly even more. so out of cheapness/impatience/low expectations, i settled. actually, truth be told, even computer science is a compromise for me... i prefer the biological sciences.. i just don't know how to pragmatically make that a career at this point without going into the medical industry, which doesn't interest me at all. mostly cause i just dislike being around sick people. but i can usually at least find some interest in anything that involves logic and science and engineering... assuming that i can grasp it. so i thought computers seemed like a safe choice in this era... cliche as it may be.

but even those basic IT jobs are mostly in cities that are too far from me atm. there is one place sorta nearby hiring people with software engineering skills, so i might just go that route instead, but first i have to brush back up on my programming first cause i really didn't focus on that for the majority of my time studying. and i have to learn a language i'm unfamiliar with.

basically it was good moving out here to go to school cause it's cheap as ****. but now that it's time to find a job i'm wishing i was back in fl. or at least charlotte or somewhere like that. after i leave this place i'm done with the country/small towns for a while.