Is it possible to make money using your Linux knowledge if you’re not a developer? I know I can become a professional devops or sysadmin if I take some courses and master advanced networking. But is there something I can do now as an average, moderately experienced linux user?
If you like teaching/training that could be an avenue to make money with some of that knowledge.
You would need to consolidate that knowledge and show that you have a good enough understanding of that topic to teach it but it’s a pretty good way to learn more and make some money along the way.
Not every training needs to be kernel level types of expertise, a lot of people train on the basics of Linux and could use some training. For instance many business will send admins that are knowledgeable on Windows to learn also on Linux so they can do both at the same time.
This is a brilliant idea. I love teaching and writing howtos.
I don’t get how one can get to teaching without provable certifications or experience. I mean who will hire Joe from his basement just because he claims he’s “good at Linux”. Unless you’re talking for something else. Like him preparing a whole course in an online platform that will give it free in order to get some traction and hoping that this will attract customers
Do you know if OP has certifications or experience?
Do you know how knowledgeable he is on Linux ?
Beside I will say it again, you can totally teach introductory courses on some subjects without being an expert on it.
And in practice, I have definitely seen people teaching with tons of certifications and alleged expertise on the topic but who couldn’t teach anything. And that was of very expensive courses on rather specific Linux topics.
I personally would much prefer to be introduced to a new subject (like BASH101) by someone who has zero certifications but some experience and a real ability to teach.
Because I have seen a lot of super certified teachers who ends up unable to teach anything and who are recycling the same course without any practical experience in the last decade.
Lol
Are you sure you’ve read the OP?
I don’t disagree with that, but again I think you’re in a wrong post. Op never said that they’re so experienced but just lack certifications. What I’ve understood is that OP is just a power user with no other experience, neither from a job, nor from personal hobbies but on production live environments
And that being said, please explain me how you end up making such assumptions about OP’s skills and what did they say that made you feel that you know about their level of knowledge.
It’s the opposite, I don’t make any assumptions on OP’s knowledge but my understanding of your comment is that you are assuming that he is just the average Joe that likes Linux but might not be able to teach on the subject.
I just told him that teaching is an avenue he could look into and he agreed. Nothing more here.