Is it possible to get a job as an assistant unix administrator on the evening shift?

Question

linux

I want to become an administrator (well, and then a programmer), but I can’t find anything. The console does not seem to be scary, I can install Debian, share a printer, roll up a web server, and so on. But one problem. I am a full time student. I finish at 17:20. Is it possible to find something at this time? Maybe I’m looking in the wrong place, but I see only offers by the call center operator. I wrote to the organization, but they did not answer. What to do? where to look? What else needs to be studied?

Answer 1

I want to become an administrator (and then a programmer)

You have a logical error. Administrator and programmer are two practically unrelated professions. If you want to be an administrator, go to administrators. If you want to be a programmer, become a programmer.

Answer 2

It’s already hard to become a developer after an admin - brains work differently, and you start to consider the lion’s share of developers to be armless (and then you edit the code after them, yeah).
But in general, the profession really discourages the desire to write programs from scratch.
And so - hosting support (especially a small one, where support is given root after a test one) and let's go. That's exactly how I started. And the schedule for supports is very different.
Admins in Moscow try to work from 12 to 20, if the schedule allows - so that you can drive past traffic jams and in the morning after nightly repairs it is not so hard to get up.

Answer 3

Have you already joked about the pilot, and then the surgeon?
No kidding: if you see yourself as a proger, go proger. It is very difficult to grow from admins (Linux) to developers (I honestly tried).
If you want to be an admin - determine the direction: if you want to administer the OS and servers - go to work in a hosting provider, if networks - go to an Internet provider.
If we are talking about commercial enterprises, there are practically no evening shifts (such cases are rare), and responsible administrators are "in touch" around the clock. If I were you, I would go to work in shifts for the first line of support, and then, as the teaching load decreases, move on to the second line of support.

Answer 4

I want to become a surgeon (and then a pilot) ... first figure out the professions, then look for where to attach yourself, there is nothing unrealistic, for a system administrator - an evening FLS for hosting or an Internet provider, for a programmer - out of the question, maybe someone will tell you.

Answer 5

The fact is that if everything is in order, administrators usually smoke in the evening shift. If some pipets is full, then you need to be able to eliminate it. Why do you need a formal job? You wrote that you already know how to do everything simple (console, roll up the OS), now you need "difficult cases", take a few problems on freelance, solve them and earn extra money at the same time. Help to reflect DDOS in any way (in principle, this is more work for a system administrator than a programmer) and all you will have is the experience of non-trivial situations. Further, if your heart desires - learn to be a programmer.

Answer 6

no, all admins go to sleep after 6.
There are of course night shifts but this is rare.