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When do they learn this stuff? More weekend reading and side projects? Aka free overtime.

• Rapzid 10y ago
  There is pretty much no Uni track for this stuff so, yeah, on the job and after work. I have no degree so everything after high school(which I was very fortunate to have had C++, CCNA, etc classes at).. FREE though? Man, my current salary doesn't make me feel like I gave my time learning this stuff away for free..
  • Jtsummers 10y ago
    Learning isn't about your current salary. It's to qualify you for your next salary.
    • jonaf 10y ago
      I find this to be just a little bit oversimplified. Indeed, I find that learning on a daily basis keeps me employed, whether I am physically in the office or not, or what time of day it is. So, learning may be about your current salary -- keeping it, that is.
• sigil 10y ago
  Not sure exactly. Tinkering, curiosity, free reign to learn new things at a few lucky jobs, guilt at throwing problems "over the wall" to ops people, and the fact that we're all operators sometimes (we all probably run personal servers and local networks) -- these were all a factor for me. I mostly build, but running things is also fun, and building things with a knowledge of what's downstream is the most fun, imo.