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Selfhosting got me a job offer (alien.top)
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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Showing interest in tech or programming was always the number one hiring criteria for me.

IT is so a fast changing job that you want to keep up just with your job alone, so if your company wants innovation they need people that do stuff like this in their free time.

This doubly applies for people fresh out of school, cause honestly you don't learn nearly enough to do the job there. So every little extra gives you a lead against your concurrence.