JimmyChezPants 🇨🇦<p>Hey uhh <a href="https://growers.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://growers.social/tags/Sysadmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sysadmin</span></a> folks</p><p>Summary: looking for recommendations for MS365 certification training materials - Udemy, best current books, etc. </p><p>I have decided to acquire a couple of Microsoft certs after making to finalist for an IT job this summer and someone with better MS xp got the job, cause let's face it, they own the business world, which is the place where I will have to find a job, most likely. I still love the school bus, but the pay just ain't there, even with a new contract and a hefty raise on my daily rate this year.</p><p>So if anyone else out there has been working on any certs and like the material they're using, I'm keen to know. I have watched a couple of videos on YT as a starting point but you never get the whole story for free on YT, but you can often get a fantastic Udemy course for $20, which is the ideal outcome I'm seeking. We can't afford to spend hundreds on a single book, but I'd prefer not to pirate from an individual creator of training materials. </p><p>Microsoft, I'll steal from them till the day I die. Or I would if they had anything I wanted. Other than access to a job...</p><p>I'm also available freelance for IT & DevOps work, at highly reasonable rates, especially if you contact me through the Fedi. Do you have a semi-broken thing that forces you to do something tedious every day, like walk downstairs to power cycle a thing? I can probably solve that for you, with the application of some scripts (Bash, Python, Powershell) and possibly an Arduino and some bits and bobs.</p><p>But mainly I need a full time job that uses my brain rather than my switftly-rusting body.</p><p>edit: What drives me up the wall about these training courses for corporate systems is the degree to which they demand you join one cult or another. When I was doing a CCNA, one guy spent five minutes on the heading, "Fall In Love With The Technology!" </p><p>I know how to setup databases, move data around a network, manage a RAID file server, etc, all the stuff computers and networks can do, I know how to make that happen, for free in nearly every case. What I am learning from you, Microsquash, is your massive layer of unnecessary, power-sucking cruft with which you justify your monthly pounds of flesh.</p><p>You know what I really need to do, is get back to <a href="https://growers.social/tags/Animation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Animation</span></a>, cause we were using Linux desktops at my last friggin TD job...</p>