Intrusive Digital Dreams
TL'DR - I'm tired boss, i go from talking tech to just fuckin' ranting about shit
Have you ever dreamed a SQL query?
It sucks. You know it is a dream, because the surreal view of living as an embodied consciousness staring at a screen is pretty clear, it isn't a normal, natural view. It's said that text is unrecognizable in a dream, but that doesn't appear to be accurate as I distinctly remember seeing a SELECT statement at the top of my doc.
SQL, databases, cloud services, migrations, disaster recovery, all this jargon, getting burnt into my brain. I've been drowning myself in taking courses and modules at Coursera (use my referral link pls). I'm not entirely sure how the industry views these certifications, but I also sorta don't care. I've been struggling to care lately, really. It's ironic I type that, as I'm tearing through these courses, but it is sort of true.
Completely Nose-Deep in Technology
I wanted to add to my small pile of certifications, so I looked up what google used for certs and went with that. Coursera isn't bad, but some of their courses are pretty damn dated. Oh well, those I tend to skip some material just to get the completion. Maybe not the best thing to admit, but again, I'm sorta jaded right now with the IT Industry.
My current collection of certifications from Coursera and CompTIA include:
- A+ Certification (grandfathered)
- Network+ Certification (grandfathered)
- Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate
- Google IT Support Professional Certificate
- Google Cloud VMware Engine Certificate
- IBM Data Science Professional Certificate
- VMware Networking and Security Architecture with VMware NSX
- AWS Fundamentals Specialization (Amazon Web Services)
My Goals and Aspiration Towards Web3
I've been leaning heavily into Data Science as I've mentioned in a previous blog but I wanted to elaborate a bit more. My overarching goal is to separate myself from the corporate world of drudgery and ascend into an idealistic world of Web3 and decentralized technologies. I've always been a proponent of decentralized technology which uplifts and supports all.
I'm tired of the current, modern world. I think there are so many better ways to run things, and the current doldrum of societal progress feels lacking for a better term. More like absolutely shit, a complete catastrophe for another term. Everything is fucked, hence why I wanna go web3. I seriously can't take the complete lack of loyalty anymore.
I've Lost the Spirit of Company Loyalty
I suppose I should have never had it in the first place. Old timers giving bad advice, saying stick with a company and the company will treat you right. That's just simply not true. Its obvious at this point if you aren't nepotistically installed, you are a cog. How easy someone can be tossed aside by shitty middle-management types who couldn't tech their way out of a fucking 1950s barn. It stumps me how upside down this shit is, with base idiots distributed within upper halls of systemic corporate governance.
There's got to be a better way than this. And there is. Decentralized.
I'm not risking my future with some company that doesn't care. That's silly, what sane intelligence would do that. The brain drain companies will see when they lose intelligence will only cascade, and their hope of linear-algebra driven LLMs saving their asses is a stretch. You hoity-toity bastards need us lest we go feudal again. Don't think your AI will save you.
So yea, that's where I'm at. I'm feeling extremely defeated at the moment, resting and hopefully leaning on my CompSci skillset I've been developing for a few decades. Sure, I've not be as engaged and involved with increasing my skills every single day, but I have worked the industry for the last 2+ decades. So I got that behind me. Now it's time that I apply this and take full responsibility for how I live.
