* Make concrete goals and plans to attack them:

      * What career do you want?
      * What do you want your day-to-day to look like?
      * What are your chief professional / technical interests?

   * Areas of general skill-expansion focus:


      * Linux

         * Linux From Scratch
         * Beginner's Bash Guide / Advanced Bash Guide
         * Review your RHEL materials
         * Tons of great RHEL materials on their site

      * Programming

         * Python
         * Bash
         * C (maybe)

      * Security+ (I can get the book for you)
      * Cloud

         * Depends on your focus
         * Puppet is great to learn
         * AWS is a must to learn
         * Make a free AWS account and play with it
         *



   * Areas of specific skill-expansion focus:

      * ?
      * ?

   * Things to avoid

      * Specific knowledge without direct career application

         * Not good for when you have other specific things to learn; you only have so much time; save that for later
         * Domain-specific knowledge when the domain isn't widely used
         * Additional Windows knowledge unless incredibly specific to your problem domain


   * Specific projects to expand skills:

      * Linux from Scratch
      * Build ACTUAL SOFTWARE THAT DOES THINGS

         * Green Tea Press
         * Google for Python projects to build skills
         * Try to replicate all the GNU utilities you can in Python
         * Write a port-scanner in Python
         * Replicate a Windows application  in Python
         * Try similar things in Bash, to a lesser extent / lesser time committment (language isn't as deep)