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I spend a lot of my time delivering training for Microsoft certs. After 20 years as a sysadmin I still learn new stuff while preparing training materials. Microsoft Learn provides a lot of excellent, free resources/labs.

It tickles me how loved up Microsoft are these days over Linux and open source. I teach Microsoft certs while running Linux on the desktop (running azure tools, vs code, dotnet, sqlserver and teams).

Certs won't guarantee you a better job but you will learn something new and there are worse things you can do with your time.