I'm on the business side, and am relatively young. Have dabbled with computer stuff since middle school (built desktops with my Dad, internet privileges revoked

I'm on the business side, and am relatively young. Have dabbled with computer stuff since middle school (built desktops with my Dad, internet privileges revoked for a year in middle school for hacking the Oracle system, have run linux on my non-work laptop for the past ~5 years, etc.), but never pursued serious study whether solo or in a formal setting. Both with tech and non-tech related learning, my autodidact process (largely determined by growing up through the late 90's and early aughts) was the following: (1) Google search or Amazon search (2) Blitz-read some website I thought might be relevant from the Google search results or Blitz-read for author and subject matter info. I thought might be relevant from the Amazon search results (3) Stop at (2) because I had pieced together a solution or had gleaned a sufficient amount of information; or repeat (1) and (2) until piecing together a solution or gleaning... This rather clunky but speedy (notice I did not say efficient) process likely accounts for far more of my knowledge and skill base then I'd care to admit to friends and colleagues. All this to say: management's response to you is representative of a default mode of thinking determined (to a non-trivial degree) by the environment in which they grew up. This default mode of thinking has a number of short-term benefits, but often results in many long-term headaches. Indeed, you really can teach someone the command line in a day. However, this someone will end up doing stuff I do with the command line, such as using ls 100x more than is necessary or almost always changing directories one at a time.