Today I work as a process supporter (client operation service, 2nd level) for a service company with [a service manager software ITIL framework based][1]. The job is good regarding the IT environment: Everyday new topics coming from first level problems, a lot of (third level) guys involved but I do not have to be on top of the details. There is the third level that knows the details, and I need to know what problems are hot, have multiple tickets and need to put these problems in a process chain. I admire people working in a remote, Unix Environment knowing that people there are "technical" intelligent and creative. Am I this person? Or am I the chilled 8 to 5 worker who likes "IT"? Anyway, the more difficult the problems you can solve, the more job freedom you gain. As an experienced guy with many IT projects behind me I know it.. anyway let's move back: When I was a child and a teenager, computers never were important for me. I did not have any patience for playing computer games or programming. But since I can think I always had a computer at home, as my father was interested in hardware. But me not. I even did not play `Lego` nor watched `Star Wars` and the like. But I always admired games like `Pirates` and `Populous`. Time passed and as a young adult, from one day to the other, I was not happy anymore with the client based MS Access database and server-side html homepage my mother had, updated by me with Macromedia Dreamweaver and MS Access. She represented artists and I wanted to have a php and mysql database solution with one template loading artists on a website, throwing away `Access`. So I contracted my friend and he did a php site without javascript. I was envious of his skills and wanted to learn this as well and started with copy and paste JS and PHP code from the Internet... ... a dilemma which took quite long to understand that it is not ok for my learning. Just copying code and understanding nothing is not at all fruitful to make money with IT. Even if you use the top of art tech stack which back then was Jquery! My first IT job was at a [webshop company][2] in the "Oberpfalz" in Bavaria, Germany, back in 2012. I was in my younger thirties and was eager copy and pasting Php/JS code and run Mysql databases. I was so eager copying that I even realized a CRUD Web App from scratch with Jquery and Php. It should have resulted in a steep learning curve, but in my case: not that much. During this time, I got a Laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed. I then changed from Php to Python/Django (using the built-in Django Admin). In 2015 I wanted to learn more IT and looked into university IT courses, such as FernUni Hagen, Germany. I also got the chance to leverage my `Github` know how especially with `oh-my-zsh`. I took some free time and spent it with my Ubuntu Laptop, Git, [Cygwin][4] and [Termux][5]. I did a lot of research regarding `sed` and `regex` and came by here quite often. After that I did several projects, most of them giving service as Windows System and Apple Mobile Devices `Admin first and second level`. I could learn `Powershell` and `VBA` which both are great languages. My visits here are - learning about [scraping][6] - [Display Manager][7] Definition - [Sed][8] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Service_Manager_software [2]: http://www.electronicsales.de [3]: https://www.hof-university.de/studieninteressierte/studienangebot/informatik-bsc.html [4]: http://cygwin.com [5]: http://termux.com [6]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/92461/capturing-screenshot-of-terminal-application-via-shell-script/585149#comment1175976_585149 [7]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/20370/is-there-a-simple-linux-command-that-will-tell-me-what-my-display-manager-is/ [8]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/105569/bash-replace-space-with-new-line/105581#comment1173683_105581