Sometimes 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 fo

Sometimes 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