[Cialug] 10 years experience

[Matthew Nuzum]

Do you remember that funny job posting we had a while back that sparked the
debate about needing a level of experience that wasn't possible?

I just had a funny thought based on some banter with cloud folks on twitter.

If you need cloud experience for a job, you can fast track it by just
running multiple instances and measuring your experience in instance hours.

So if a person with one year's experience worked 50 weeks at 40 hours per
week and 50% of their time on the task that they're reporting experience in,
that is only 1,000 hours. You can fire up 125 EC2 nodes for 8 hours to get
equivalent experience in a single day for the low of $85.

Take two weeks off from work and dedicate them to cloud computing and you'd
be a seasoned veteran when you return. It'd be cheaper than getting almost
any tech certification.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
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"Never stop learning" –Robert Nuzum (My dad)
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