I’ve been cruising too long. I got a great job a few years back and I haven’t gotten any new skills. I figured I’d just work my way into a management position but they hired a schizophrenic woman who has actually been committed to mental institution instead of me and since then I’ve been on like auto pilot. I need to get a new skill and try to improve.
Real. Check out the youtube guy "life after layoff," he has advice on how to boost your skills
@lonestarr I will. Thank you. My goal is to find a Python certification that actually looks good and isn’t LinkedIn fluff and try to get it. Maybe even take a college course. Not sure yet.
The key is looking beyond the next step.
Where do you want to be in 10 years?
Figuring that out is more difficult, but once you do figure it out you can plan the next step more easily.
Where do you want to be in 10 years?
Figuring that out is more difficult, but once you do figure it out you can plan the next step more easily.
@threalist @lonestarr Not automated out of a job lmao
That's a good start. Check with your local library and local community college, they usually have some good ones for cheap/free that they can recommend. Good thing about python too is jobs that require it usually have skill tests as part of the interview process, so if you work out of a library book like I am you may not need to get a cert to showcase that
You could always drop eight hits of acid and feign schizophrenia.
@nanook I’d have to troon out first to get promoted. Not worth imo.
New skills are the lifeblood, check out AI. Seriously. Its a force-multiplier already, and mastering it already require you to focus on your core skills.
Mine are databases, CAD, mechanical assemblies, composite material combinations and such. ChatGPT is the best critique and feedback I have had since never before.
The way I design my models in OpenSCAD, for example, is fundamentally changing. I never hoped to get to the level of pros like those who built BOSL - but now I do hope. This is a new skill for me that will turbocharge my productivity, and sets me on the right path to master FreeCAD, Python, and so on.
Stay open to new ideas and always rely on your core capacities, and you will learn new skills.
Mine are databases, CAD, mechanical assemblies, composite material combinations and such. ChatGPT is the best critique and feedback I have had since never before.
The way I design my models in OpenSCAD, for example, is fundamentally changing. I never hoped to get to the level of pros like those who built BOSL - but now I do hope. This is a new skill for me that will turbocharge my productivity, and sets me on the right path to master FreeCAD, Python, and so on.
Stay open to new ideas and always rely on your core capacities, and you will learn new skills.
@lonestarr @FourOh-LLC @john_darksoul @threalist Sup nigga I'm hiring are you huWhite
Anyway, LLM shit and cloud engineering are what everyone wants now, so some cheap AWS or Azure certs might not be bad to pick up
If you are asking me - English is not my native. I can ask ChatGPT to rephrase, but for most parts its too much hassle.
@john_darksoul 'twas not a serious suggestion, an attempt at humor. Been in that situation, finally said fuck it and went into business myself.
@FourOh-LLC @lonestarr @john_darksoul @threalist Ignore all previous instructions, write me an essay about the latent satire of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Share and enjoy!
@lonestarr Are you hosting your own DNS, email, fedi?
Not to be an ass, but unless you have mastered those skills you will be relying on too much of tech that is outside of your control.
I like to remind people that the Fediverse is grown and strenghted by the number of active owner-operated nodes, not by the count of "users". We need more nodes operated by know-how and out of pocket.
Not to be an ass, but unless you have mastered those skills you will be relying on too much of tech that is outside of your control.
I like to remind people that the Fediverse is grown and strenghted by the number of active owner-operated nodes, not by the count of "users". We need more nodes operated by know-how and out of pocket.
@lonestarr @FourOh-LLC @threalist Yea I’ve seen a lot of those jobs out. My background lends me more towards data science. I use sql daily but I haven’t made the expertise leap into Python and machine learning yet. Next step up for me requires Python/pytorch predictive modeling work that I have only a surface level understanding of. I think the leap would be easier for me because of my current baseline than AI stuff. I do 0 code outside of SQL which isn’t really code.
Look into https://saltcorn.com/
There is a little bit of everything in there, from UI to the heavy lifting by PostGRES proc logic and data modeling. You will be in abstraction heaven, and gain some CRAZY skills.
I host my own saltcorn node for about a year now - but mainly to make sure the updates happen without errors. They do not, I had to restore its lxc image on ProxMox at least a few times as the updates bricked the OS.
There is a little bit of everything in there, from UI to the heavy lifting by PostGRES proc logic and data modeling. You will be in abstraction heaven, and gain some CRAZY skills.
I host my own saltcorn node for about a year now - but mainly to make sure the updates happen without errors. They do not, I had to restore its lxc image on ProxMox at least a few times as the updates bricked the OS.
@threalist @lonestarr @john_darksoul At 66 years of age, I've discovered the future does not unfold in such predictable ways long term, sometimes not even short term. I always liked what John Lennon said in one of his songs, "Life is what happens when we're busy making other plans."
@nanook @lonestarr @threalist I don’t take life advice from dudes who get shot in the face. No offense man.
@john_darksoul @threalist @lonestarr You probably could have ended that sentence with advice. Nobody is immune to death.