Been using UNIX since the late 80s; Linux since the mid-90s; virtualization since the early 2000s and spent the past few years working in the cloud space.
Location
Alexandria, VA, USA
Education
B.S. Psychology from Pennsylvania State University
I figure: A) there's entirely too much shit to know cold/off the top of my head; B) I switch far too frequently between different types of tasks, languages, etc. to have much more than "most recently used" techniques/languages at the top of my head. If all a place is looking for is solving an immediate problem, I'm probably the wrong person for the job. If they're looking for someone who's going to be capable of long-term problem-solving, they're not going to be hung up on me not immediately-knowing something but will, instead, be happy to see that I know how to use what I know to extend my knowledge to the particulars of a given situation.
But, yeah, I've never considered myself a specific subject "expert" ...even when the people that have advertised themselves as experts have demonstrably-less knowledge in their domain than I (down side of being aware of how much you don't know).
That's what I'd like to believe about myself too. I've always been the last one in the company, and therefore I had to learn whatever was needed. Like this, I got to work with 6 different languages and yet I didn't get the chance to get good at any of them...
I guess there's an upside to this too, I just didn't see it yet.
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I figure: A) there's entirely too much shit to know cold/off the top of my head; B) I switch far too frequently between different types of tasks, languages, etc. to have much more than "most recently used" techniques/languages at the top of my head. If all a place is looking for is solving an immediate problem, I'm probably the wrong person for the job. If they're looking for someone who's going to be capable of long-term problem-solving, they're not going to be hung up on me not immediately-knowing something but will, instead, be happy to see that I know how to use what I know to extend my knowledge to the particulars of a given situation.
But, yeah, I've never considered myself a specific subject "expert" ...even when the people that have advertised themselves as experts have demonstrably-less knowledge in their domain than I (down side of being aware of how much you don't know).
That's what I'd like to believe about myself too. I've always been the last one in the company, and therefore I had to learn whatever was needed. Like this, I got to work with 6 different languages and yet I didn't get the chance to get good at any of them...
I guess there's an upside to this too, I just didn't see it yet.