Confused and Irritated

Recent life-changing events forced me to contemplate on my life and my priorities. After being a bum for a few months - with funds fast depleting - I decided it's now time to get myself a day job. I'm well rested and very much eager to interact with the corporate world again. Let's get it on!

The confused and irritated part was caused by a surprise. This shit happens, and I'm just a victim of synchronicity. But I'll also face it head on!

When I need think, I usually get a piece of paper and a pencil and write down what I can and cannot do. And since I'm stuck in front of my laptop, I'll be doing that right here, right now. I've been using the SWOT method for a long time now, but this time I'll just focus on strengths and weaknesses and my computing and management skills.

Strengths:
System Administration

• LAMP
• eGroupware and PHPGroupware
• Dovecot
• Postfix
• Sendmail
• Dancer IRCD
• Subversion
• Installation and Configuration of Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora
• IRC Bots (Eggdrop and Supybot)
• DNS Administration via EditDNS and DynDNS
  
• SSH and FTP Configuration
• Samba
• Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, e107, PHP-Fusion
• Wordpress
• Moodle
• Search Engine Optimization
• Software Testing and Quality Improvement
• Exposure to Open Source Processes
• LAN Networking
• Software/Computer Forensics
• PGP and SSH
  

Programming

• C++
• PHP & HTML
  
• KDevelop
• NetBeans
• Anjuta
• Geany
• MS Visual C++ 6
  

Management

• Managing Accelerated Performance (MAP)
• Knowledge Management
• Project Management
• Performance Management
• Six Sigma Training
• Risk Management
  

Weakness:
System Administration

• Cyrus and Courier Email Servers
• Kolab, Scalix, and Zimbra
• Jabber
• Asterisk
• BIND
• JBoss
• Novell/SUSE and Red Hat
• LDAP
• Kerberos
• SpamAssasin
• ClamAV
  
• Squid
• IPTables
• Sugar CRM (or any CRM Applications)
  
• Tiny ERP (or any ERP Applications)
• Chrooted/Jailed Accounts
• Virtual Email Accounts using MySQL
• Clustering
• Solaris
• WebSphere and Domino
• MSSQL
• LTSP
• WAN Installation and Management
  

Programming

• MS Visual C++ 6, I've relied heavily on this.
  
• C++ skill not enough, at least for Linux.
  
• PHP skill not enough
• Java
• Any Scripting Language
  

Management

• Not enough experience
  

So there it is.... based on the list above, I guess I'll have more chances of getting a Sys Admin job. But also based on the list above, there's a lot more stuff I need to learn before I consider myself qualified to be a Sys Admin.

Now the hard part, it's Baguio. There's very, very few companies who use Unix/Linux for their servers, much less for their workstations. I'll see what I can do. But for now, and the next couple of days, I'll be very busy studying and working on my skills.

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