So whats next…

Well life is currently telling me its time for something different. After a relationship down the drain and then plans of traveling to london put off due to the great economic problems going on making my money worthless things are in need of a change up.

So I have started on improving my knowledge in all things computers so that my next employer can pay me more money which helps my money problem, which should then rub off onto everything else after all money doesnt solve problems but it sure makes them easier to deal with.

Looking at my abilities it was clear my linux skills needed a big upgrade so first stop on my quest for knowledge is a Red Hat RHCE book and a learning Perl one. I did consider starting with a bash or python book but after reading up on the whole sys admin thing Perl looks like a good place to start and hey I can always learn the others next.

I have also previously grabbed some books on PHP, HTML & CSS to read at my own pace but given I enjoy working in sys admin type roles and the like they come second to the linux skills I need.

I started with the Perl book and while all I have learnt so far is how to input and output text and manipultate data a bit its rather enjoying. Takes me back to when I was in tafe and enjoyed programming things in VB.Net. I don’t remember an ounce of that stuff now but I do remember  the challenge in working out how to make a program do a certain task.

I think programming fits well with my way of thinking so to speak. I’ll spend all day fixing a computer at work purely because I love to work out how it got that way in the first place. Format and re-install might seem like the easier option but going through backing everything up and re-installing everything (providing the client has all the disks) it would take just as long and not anywhere near as fun.

With the xmas break coming up and a new year almost upon us its good to heading in the right direction. Anyway back to this programming thing….

Tags: learning, programming