Sudo Show 8: Our First Live Ask Me Anything

We finally pulled off our first live event for the show. Episode 8 of the Sudo Show is the recap of our first ever AMA, where folks hopped on a video call and threw questions at Brandon and me for two hours straight.

This one bounces around a lot, which is honestly what made it fun. We get into the eternal entry level career question, how to break out of help desk into sysadmin work, and Brandon shares his story of landing a job partly by admitting he didn’t know MySQL instead of bluffing his way through it. We also talk Linux certifications, home lab hardware, and whether CentOS is good enough for RHCSA prep. Somewhere in there Brandon walks through his bus factor plan for his home lab and passwords, which is a more important conversation than most people realize until it’s too late.

My favorite moment is admitting on air that I got hired at Red Hat only to discover my own RHCSA had expired. Brandon and I also dig into the GitHub portfolio question that comes up constantly, whether contributions actually move the needle for hiring managers, and how to migrate a business off proprietary software without starting a riot among your end users.

If you’ve got career questions rattling around, this episode is basically us thinking out loud about most of them. Give it a listen.