Article: 0001en Date: 2025-01-19 Source: https://gweep.eu
My SSP (Self Study Plan) 2025 is the result of the last year and my "planless self study" in the last years. I don't know, but in the last years I started so many interesting themes, read, watched so many stuff but I had finished less.
Since a time I worked to find a 'route' for me, that I learned stuff that I maybe can change my job. My favorite is the IT Security (Ethical Hacker/Pentesting) but I don't have a big chance to change in this category as a job. I work actually as a Application Manager, a interessting point to see what is going on in other departments in the IT (Production Management, Solutions Management, Developers, Operations, Testing, Distribution and so on). I worked as System Administrator, Helpdesk and Sales since I started my carrier after the military. Last year I had started to learn something about databases and in special PostgreSQL.
I build up about this themes my main plan:
Linux - learn more about it and repeat my know (I attend some trainings, watched videotrainings and read books about that). But I use linux at home since many years, also in jobs. And I want also learn Ansible for my own servers in my network to safe time.
Scripting - write more scripts for my tasks and I want also use Python for it.
PostgreSQL - queries, optimizing, tuning, etc.
I should also learn more about OpenShift and some deployment tools that I need for my job as a Application Manager. I can combine with Docker and Kubernetes. One of that both I want to use at home. At the moment I have a Docker Swarm but I don't use it. LaTeX - I want to learn it from new to use it for my documentation. At the moment I use only Markdown (and I love it). But a finished document looks much better in LaTeX than in Markdown. PHP/... - I want to create GUI's for my databases. I'm not sure if I do that with PHP/HTML/CSS or in a Python CLI or what ever. But I want to create a solution that is not only to put information with SQL commands. Hacking/Security - will be always a theme in my SSD because I loving it. All what I do and learn is to know more to be a better, I don't know if I call it correct, hobby hacker? If I get a job in the security, I would change but I don"t push myself hard like the last 2 years to get a job into this because I like it to much to kill my love on that to get a job into. But if I get a chance, I would take it :)
I have so many interests in IT, there are so many themes to learn but there is not enough time. I have a family, a job, I should do something like they call sport and learn new stuff and sometimes I'm tight before a brain-buffer-overflow. That is the time where I watch movies/series or play some computer games because I can"t memorize nothing.
And there is one point that I had forgot to list: I want to learn english because I have forgotten so much about that. On the 13. March 2023 i wrote on twitter/x: "I will start to write some tweets also in english. It's not my mother language but I want to do my best :)". Since this day I watched many Videos in english, read many articles, read some books, watched some series and movies. The most books that I buy for PostgreSQL and other themes I had buyed in english and read them. But some books are hard to read, because the use so many vocabulary that I understand, so that I need much time to read only one chapter :) As a example that is the book 'Hackers - heroes of the computer revolution' from Steven Levy. The last time that I test to read it, is one year ago. Maybe I should test it again. One point is a problem: talking in english. The only people with they I talk sometimes in english is in Counter-Strike. But that is not much and I can not really learn something about that. I need a person that speaks good english and can understand my bullshit and tell me what I do wrong.
So, now you know my SSD (Self Study Plan) for 2025. It is not chiseled in stone (I don't know if that phrase is also used in english), but that is my plan at the moment. Better one plan than no plan.