The blog owner works as a senior IT-Consultant. They have worked for small, as well as larger international businesses, both inhouse and as a consultant. As a consultant they work mostly for larger companies. They have had a love for Linux, opensource and tinkering most of their life. Here are some of the tech that I use in my job or in private (not a exhaustive list):
Linux, AD, VMware, Powershell, Bash, Ansible, Kubernetes, Terraform, Azure, Python.

I belong to the part of the population that did not thrive in the public school system. I found it too rigid and boring. One of the big problems I had was that up until the last year of high school I breezed trough all tests and assignments I needed to do. That did however meant I never had to struggle and learn good study methods. During the last year of high-school my confidence and grades were destroyed due to the sudden spike in difficulty. Reading the chapter and doing a few practice assignments the night before the test was no longer enough. With no grades and no ambition I ended up working whatever jobs I could find just to not be a leech on my parents. I had no ambition, no money and no hope. I found it very hard to get out of bed some days. I was fortunate to have family and close friends that absolutely were the light of my life and kept me moving forward. When I turned 25 I spent some time considering my future. I felt despair at considering being 35 and in the same position. I realized I had to give myself a chance. To do that I needed to focus harder than I ever had and learn a marketable skill. I ended up doing several free but great programming courses in an attempt to either be employable or become good enough to have passive income from some project. After that I programmed some personal projects as well as a stint for a small startup. None of the projects or the startup went anywhere but I did get a lot of experience with programming and Linux along the way. I applied for multiple junior programming positions but none were interested in someone without formal education and more experience.

This period of self-study and applying took around two years. For someone who was used to not trying very hard, suddenly having to focus for many hours every day on difficult problems was brutal. I had to make several adjustments. I sold my gaming computer have fewer distractions. I spent almost all my time off work and some on work to study. I spent hours every sunday and saturday at a lokal coffee shop to better focus on the task at hand. For someone that is not used to trying, not used to struggling it was hard. I had to make a tremendous effort to push my eyes back to the problem in front of me. With time it got a little better. But I still struggle very hard with focusing to this day unless the problem is interesting. Thankfully I did end up with enough Linux experience along the way that a small business hired me as a Linux Technician and that was it. Around 6 years later at time of writing I no issues finding work. This is still a career where you frequently have to take a deep dive into something new and difficult. But it is rewarding an fun for the most part.