SCREW A RECAP, YOU KNOW HOW THE INTERNET WORKS
So, a combination of three significant things prompts today’s post…that nobody will read:
- The main laptop I use to manage my homelab has encountered its first major hardware malfunction.
- I have my first official job interview this Friday.
- Boredom from all of this forced free time.
BEING UNEMPLOYED REALLY PUTS A DAMPER ON A LOT
For the better part of the last 4 months, I’ve been playing with a homelab. I’ve repurposed a lot of hardware, spent a little bit of money on new toys, and the more I build this thing out, the more I feel I need to spend on more devices and components. But while working with what I have, and the time I have available, I’ve been updating a rather large music collection. I’m taking my original collection saved on an external hard drive, using Beets-Flask to correct metadata, and saving the updated files to my NAS. It’s. A. Slow. Process. Once completed, the collection will be further managed and played through Navidrome and Lidarr.
BUT…! If this process worked as expected, that would be easy, right? And easy is never fun, RIGHT? Well, in the process of migrating my Led Zeppelin collection over, my laptop crashed. I powered back up and click… crashed again. After running diagnostics, no issues were found, and I was later able to power back up and continue. I’m going to play ignorant for now and just pretend this never happened. Thankfully, I don’t use that laptop as storage in any important capacity, but I should, at some point, back up my Docker and other configs to my NAS so I can easily rebuild if needed.
Oh yeah, and I also want a lot of money to properly build out my homelab to do all the things I am aiming it to do. So there’s that. But I guess I have to be gainfully employed first.
SPEAKING OF GAINFULLY EMPLOYED
In a few days, after all of the applications and resumes I have submitted, I have my first honest-to-goodness interview. To say I’m terrified doesn’t even scratch the surface. To be clear, I won’t be completely demoralized if, at the end of it, they say I don’t fit what they need, but it will suck a little, and I’ll have to start pivoting to something else. Namely, Project Management. I recently took the Google Project Management Certificate on Coursera. I still plan to go further with this, but the how of it is still a bit of a mystery. As a forty-five-year-old, starting at the very bottom again does not sound appealing.
RANDOM THOUGHTS TO WASTE TIME
I wonder if I should kill my homelab and rebuild it. This time, documenting every minute step. Make an absurd amount of videos and put them on Youtube and TikTok. If anyone out there in the wastelands of the internet think that’s a good idea, hit me up. Maybe the insistence of a random stranger on the internet can convince me.
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