Of all places I was in a Goodwill and they had an ad for a program called LIFT IT come on over the airwaves in between some banger oldies. It was a bit competitive. I think they had over 200 applicants and only 17 made it but it’s worth checking out if you live in the states. I’m in Colorado. Not sure if it’s available elsewhere.

I have no formal training and work in real estate so I’ve taught myself GNU/Linux CLI commands, docker and basic networking stuff with the help of the Internet, YouTube and some LLM assistance. I now self-host around a dozen services via docker on an old Dell XPS laptop for myself. This did lead me to consider a career change and I applied for and got into a free study course for the CompTIA Network+ and Security+ certificates so we’ll see if that ends up just becoming extra help for my hobby or a means to get into IT more broadly.