This is very cool, and this is how I have approached my sysadmin and programming work over the years. When I started, I had very little experience, but a willi

This is very cool, and this is how I have approached my sysadmin and programming work over the years. When I started, I had very little experience, but a willingness to learn. My boss hired me anyway, and it moved from pushing paper to labs to "OK, we need to update this web application" and "I need you to learn how to deploy a very customized Windows image for 300 computers, and learn to maintain them." Since I was much younger, first as a student and then a full-time employee at uni, it was easy to ask my bosses (the first, if you can believe this, actually wrote his own code to hide a password in the bootloader to run some admin task on the first boot after imaging and then delete after completion; with Windows installations and incosistency, it took him months to get that write; he now is a full-time lit nerd and author, talk about renaissance man) and tell them everything I did and needed help. Not only did that teach me to solve the problem, it taught me how to approach computer problems (kind of like the OSI stack, but more general than networking, and not as shitty as "turn the computer on again and off again") and then onto "how do I debug stupid coding mistakes in scripts with the least time possible" (answer: it might not be a production app, but make sure your scripts have good on-and-off logging infrastructure or you will be sorry). Unfortunately, I moved on from that job. And if this long-winded post is any indication, I am now seen as too chatty and annoying with this approach where I work. Some people get it, while as the other more senior infrastructure people see it as me questioning them when I ask for explanations or better tips to troubleshoot issues I could see (not that are there, but potentially could see) from my end and know when to leave them alone. As others pointed it, it is essential to enforce this on everyone, and in many institutions, that is seen as being chatty and nosy. I learned a lot through my mentors, and I wish this could be imposed everywhere I worked and work, but many oppose this as questioning authority. I wish it was different, but oh well.