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Perhaps a dumb question but why are these folks spending their personal money building a personal lab in their home to do testing for work? Shouldn't their work
by pc86 5y ago
Perhaps a dumb question but why are these folks spending their personal money building a personal lab in their home to do testing for work? Shouldn't their work be paying for all of this? I would never spend my own money for my employer in this way.
- grepfru_it 5y agoSometimes they won’t but you still want to learn. In my case we only had 5 sun servers and they were our dns infra. We did not have any additional hardware for test nor were they paying for my aws account. Either I sit around and collect the same paycheck everyday or I spend $10 on a vps to learn in my spare time. End up using the dns solution to host some websites for people. Vps wasn’t powerful enough so I rented a dedicated server for $30 (still have it 13 years later). We started running VMware at work but again no hardware for testing. So I picked up another dedicated server to run my own hyper visor. Then I started selling VPS systems. That is how I turned a $10 vps my Job didn’t want to pay for into a $80k/yr business which led to big jumps in pay and titles as I took new jobs. You can sit at home and stick your nose up at the idea but then you are also not learning or pushing your career to the limits