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  • In addition to what everyone else has said: internships.

    You’ll understand a bit more about how to play the corporate tech game, and there’s an absolute fuckload of stuff that school just straight up does not touch on. Also, it’s a great way to start off your network. Also also, since “entry level” jobs commonly have “required” experience, you can say that you’ve got a year or two experience with a straight face (and not be bullshitting about it, because you do at that point).






  • Just get an old 1L class dell/hp/lenovo, a riser to adapt the proprietary expansion slot to standard PCIe, and an old x520DA2 nic. You can find all of this on eBay. Then, just slap pfSense or OPNSense or whatever you want on it.

    Source: running an old Lenovo m920q with that exact setup. 2.5G copper module to the modem, fiber to the SFP+ port on my switch. Works great.

    Edit: and the switch is the 9-port version of the one you posted.