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Use Coursera to take a Certification in an area that interests you like IT or bookkeeping. I found it dead easy and the courses were broken down into really small units that I could finish a few a day.
Did you use those certifications to land a job?
I got my job as a entry-level tech based on Linux ability and I'm currently Junior sis admin with no certs. I still don't have certs. Just know how to Google and troubleshoot really good.
Unemployed (unemployable?) linux nerd here, I can get a job for this? What sort of listings did you apply for?
Help desk for web hosting companies I settled on one that wasn't corporate medium, large size.
So you used knowledge gained but not the actual certs themselves?
Not really. I probably learned more from having a red hat based server and playing a game that emulates a Unix terminal environent than I learned from studying for comp Tia before I gave that up
What game was it? That sounds like it could be interesting.
Hacknet
Thank you! I'm going to look into it. Also, for what it's worth, I didn't realize I was responding to a month old post until after the fact. So thank you for responding even though I probably seemed like some bot trying to build history. I assure you I am not, and I am writing this on my real phone using my human fingers, while breathing oxygen, since I am a biological creature, fellow human. Beep boop. 🤖
The internet has been dead for a while but Lemmy is mostly free of zombies
Coursera? Small units? This sounds useful (but for ADHD learning, not for jobs), I'll look into this. How widely are the Coursera certificates accepted?