How I Became a SysAdmin | The IT Guy Show Ep. 13

Before DevOps, SRE, and the cloud were the whole conversation, there were sysadmins, the generalists who kept the lights on with bash scripts, cron, and plenty of caffeine. This is a solo episode where I tell my own story: how I broke into system administration, from my earliest tech gigs to becoming the go-to Linux guy.

A few things worth carrying away from this one:

• The early days shape you. I go back to those first gigs and the messy, hands-on learning that got me started.
• You learn the ropes by doing. A lot of what stuck came from tools I loved, tools I hated, and the mistakes in between.
• The role keeps evolving. I reflect on how sysadmin work has shifted and share the advice I’d give anyone getting in today.

If you’re new to IT or just a little nostalgic for the days of cron, this one’s for you.