[Linux4christians] Feeling overwhelmed...

[Raphaël Pinson]

Hi,

I don't have much to advice, but I'd like to add my 2 pence on my personal 
experience. 

I've been very bored in school. So bored and desperate about where I had 
gotten that I left my school, a year and a half ago. Back then I was studying 
aeronautical and mechanical engineering mostly - bits a computer sciences 
too, obviously.

For a year, I did things that had not much to do with computers as a job. In 
March 2005 I started a distro project - Ichthux, some might remember, and 
it's not dead btw ;) - and got a bit involved in Debian this way. I started 
to work on a project of a pedagogy company, that might have been aimed at 
teaching computer stuff through open-source software. I stopped that project 
in December 2005. 

From October 2005, I started to get involved in Ubuntu. As I had lots of time 
since I was not working, I spent a lot of time on it, voluntarily. I then 
became a developer, then a core-dev of the distro. I began to search for a 
job as a technician, since I have no engineer's degree.

In May 2006, I got hired by a company in Paris as an IT consultant, and sent 
here on the French Riviera as a Linux System Engineer, based on my experience 
in Ubuntu. I now work as a sysadmin there, together with about 40 engineers, 
mostly open-source enthusiasts, working on websites server administration and 
all that goes around it (FAI/cfengine, etc.).

What I want to say through all this, is that your life is not frozen with the 
diploma you get or the studies you chose. I believe I am where I am today 
because God led me there, and I believe He will yet lead me to other places 
if I'm willing to follow Him. The degrees I have and the choices I have made 
technically don't really matter. The greatest way to decide the way to go is 
prayer imo.

<>< even when it comes to computers :)


Raphaël


Le vendredi 16 juin 2006 09:50, jasonite at comcast.net a écrit :
> Right now, I figure you guys would be the best people to talk to about this
> stuff.
>
> How did you know that IT was for you? Right now, I'm just feeling very
> overwhelmed by everything. I've spent two years in school and I feel less
> focused now than when I started going to school, and I didn't even know why
> I was going to school when I started. I enjoy different aspects of
> networking (what I'm doing now), but I wonder if I should go ahead now and
> switch to development while I still can (at the age of 27). It just feels
> like networking is going to eventually fade away as things become more
> automated. A lot of people see security as the new hot job, but one glance
> at my ex-boss' ReadyARM appliance and I can't help but think that old
> fashioned hacking is sooner or later going to go the way of the dinosaur as
> well.
>
> I know everyone goes through times where they feel like they've made a
> mistake, but I really do enjoy working with computers and technology. I
> just never feel like I'm making any progress with it. At times I don't even
> know if IT as a whole is for me. I'm just too scatterbrained. I start one
> thing, and then immediately get distracted by another...
>
> Anyway... whatever. Anyone got any advice? (if you do, please e-mail me
> directly as well as the group)
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Raphaël Pinson
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