gunsandnachos

I'm 49 and find that ageism is alive and well. I've been a *nix admin since the late 90s, and my last couple of interviews it was obvious they were shocked I wasn't in management. I will never be in management. To be honest, I don't like working with people. I prefer and have always preferred being in the data center basement or in the data center proper.

My age, coupled with with the fact that I prefer machines over people doesn't endear me to this newer generation of techs. I have been asked at my last several jobs why I don't use Facebook, LinkedIn, or any other social media.

I'm a greybeard and I like it that way. I'll gladly ride out the terminal windows job and light programming until they show me the door. Meetings and budgets are for others...

And neither product (I used both) compares to a Mac. There is an elegant simplicity in using a Mac that isn't there when using a PC or other.

Having been a *nix admin for a hair under 20 years, I prefer only Free & OpenBSD to macOS.

It so easy to get admin rights on a Mac anyway.

- Boot into single user mode...

# mount -uw /

# rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

# reboot

Reboot the machine and it walks you through a re-run of setting up the OS X set up assistant, which allows creation of an admin account.