prepositions
Imagine you're being interviewed for a job and you're asked to tell about your profession. You're a professional, let us say a teacher, because you studied in a pedagogical university. What is the right way to say that?
I'm a teacher by/according to/based on my education.
What preposition should be used while using exactly this word order?
Thanks!
The most idiomatic and common way to phrase this would be “I use Linux.”
If you need to keep the “Work ... Linux” phrasing, you would say “I work with Linux.” But without more context, this sounds like you are a programmer who modifies the Linux operating system. It would be an unusual way to say that you just use Linux on a regular basis. It could be understood that way if you are having a conversation about whether Windows or Linux is better, for example.
If my friend lived on a college campus like this one:
then I would ask:
If the university had more than one campus (say, an east campus and a west campus), then I might begin with:
Best Answer
I'm a teacher because that's my job. That's precisely what makes me a teacher, I do it for a living [or for free, but nevertheless I do it daily/weekly etc].
I became a teacher through education & specific teacher-training
So, I'm not a teacher because of my education, although I couldn't have become one without it. I'm a teacher because of my career-choice, enabled by the relevant education & training.
Had I gone from teacher-training college to a job in gardening & home improvement, I would be fully-qualified as teacher but I would not be a teacher.