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   okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 23:28:21 JST okasion
   Coffee bros,
   Yesterday I got rejected from another job, the third job I applied, and got to the interview process.
   The last one was for a "pure" sysadmin position, hard mode, but still, sysadmin, what I have mostly done all my life.
   "they decided to continue with another candidate".
   I knew the interview went so so. Most of my answers were answered by "brain muscle" instead by thought - this made some really good and fast answers for some questions, and too little too late for others.
   It didn't help that I spent all the day before practicing Kubernetes with K3d. As I said, I totally missed their target, they didn't ask a single question about it, not even about Docker.
   
   I have been sulking for an entire day already, and I thought it might be better to stay away from Sysadmin/DevOps for a while, and try focusing on something I see everyday in local jobs hiring, like PHP/Laravel. While I have used PHP for 10+ years, I only know the basics of Laravel and composer/artisan. The only framework I can say I know it's Python/Flask, but there are little to none jobs for it in my area.
   I have also spent the last 3 weeks making projects based on what I see employees are searching for and uploading them to Github, https://github.com/leokasion.
   
   Could someone with some time help me with some words? What do you recommend should be my course of action?
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     waifu (waifu@mai.waifuism.life)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Apr-2026 23:44:21 JST waifu

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     @anokasion@cawfee.club Sadly I cannot give too much advice, how are your social skills on those terms? I know that it's classic to ask that but most people don't push themselves into knowing the soft skills before going into the interviews