Reply to: How many hours per week do you self train?

[GillsMan]

Most of my practical knowledge I learn on the job. But I recently decided to get a degree to aid living abroad permanatly (outside EU) so I spend all my commuting time on the train (2 hours on the train) + a few hours over the weekend. Probably 10-15 hours a week, max. And I'm a fast learner so I'm blitzing it tbf.

23 months ago, I started my first ever job in IT, and I've already been contracting for five months, so I must learn fairly quickly.

[Sysman]

The reason I liked IT in the first place was that there was always something new to learn. Even when I got stuck on one platform in pre-internet days, there were plenty of dark corners of the manuals to read and experiment with. In years gone by I'd read while end of day processing and backups were churning, not to forget the times engineers were trying to get the hardware working

I definitely learn better from dead tree books and manuals than staring at a screen.

[kandr]

I usually just catch up every few years when ms releases new .net stuff.

[NotAllThere]

I get the impression kandr doesn't like me. But she's confusing me with some who gives a damn.

[SupremeSpod]

Self-training would imply that others have something to teach me. Which very rarely is the case.

But were talking about work related stuff not , it's obvious you are elite in that area.

Way to go mate, piss off the mods... Here, you may be needing this

[kandr]

Self-training would imply that others have something to teach me. Which very rarely is the case.

But were talking about work related stuff not , it's obvious you are elite in that area.

[MarillionFan]

Self-training would imply that others have something to teach me. Which very rarely is the case.

Thanks. I feel I've just learned something there.

[NotAllThere]

Self-training would imply that others have something to teach me. Which very rarely is the case.

[shaunbhoy]

0

Haven't learnt anything new for years

FTFY

[oracleslave]

0

Haven't learnt anything new for years that's work related.

[MarillionFan]

At least it ensures I'm not full of sh!t.

This is getting tedious and boring.

I'll take my last comment as gospel then.

[SupremeSpod]

In your case.... Thats the 10+ hours a week option.

At least it ensures I'm not full of sh!t.

This is getting tedious and boring.

[MarillionFan]

Where's the "I learn on the bog" option?

In your case.... Thats the 10+ hours a week option.

[SupremeSpod]

Where's the "I learn on the bog" option?

[cojak]

I'm going through a data modelling phase at the moment.

I'm planning on tackling ITSM and it's relevance to cloud computing next.