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Selfhosting got me a job offer (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by Anejey@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I still barely believe it honestly. I'm a student "freshly" outta school with no experience, and I've been struggling finding a job for a while.

I had an (first) job interview recently and while I didn't have much to offer, I seemed to somewhat impress them with my home labbing. I run Proxmox at home for my self-hosted things and got a decent amount of experience with it, and it's what they use a lot as well. It's not that common in my age group to be interested in stuff like this, apparently.

Anyway, this is barely worthy of a post, but I'm really excited. I don't really know how it'll work out as I still got plenty to learn, but it's a big step forwards for me.

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[–] yakk0@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Many of us in IT have similar starts with our interests overlapping with our career goals. My one piece of advice is to be careful about work/life balance. I’ve done a lot of “work” stuff at home over the years without getting compensated for it. Use your homelab for your projects. The skills will transfer over, but let the work projects stay on work hardware.