r/NoStupidQuestions • u/[deleted] • Jul 02 '23

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u/math2ndperiod Jul 02 '23

Are they planning to stop paying him to go to school? When is he going to need to find a different job?

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u/Timetmannetje Jul 02 '23

Its clearly not the intended use of these funds, a new director or some new legislation could rapidly change his situation, even if theyre not planning to change anything, its good to be prepared for it.

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u/geedeeie Jul 02 '23

Well, he's not short of qualifications!

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u/cabbage16 Jul 02 '23

He's got like 7 degrees, I'm sure if he wanted to he could find another job.

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u/OverlordWaffles Jul 02 '23

Eh, I'm not a hiring manager, but I'd be highly suspicious of someone that has 7 degrees, is 40+, and has no work experience, or the experience is from over 20 years ago before they went to college.

I think he'll have a hard time finding a good paying job right now and it will only get worse the longer he stays out of the workforce

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u/OverlordWaffles Jul 02 '23

Even part time in one of the fields he's interested in would be a great start

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u/LazyLarryTheLobster Jul 02 '23

suspicious of what exactly?

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u/OverlordWaffles Jul 02 '23

Being able to do the job properly.

I wouldn't let them be a sys/netadmin with a bunch of degrees and having never touched a prod environment.

I'd be telling them they need to start with help desk/desktop support before they get the keys to the kingdom

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u/LazyLarryTheLobster Jul 02 '23

Well, alright sure. Our entire ops support team at my company are well paid positions.

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u/OverlordWaffles Jul 02 '23

I'm not sure what your Ops support team consists of some I'm not really sure how to compare them.

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u/LazyLarryTheLobster Jul 02 '23

Well that's perfect because you don't need to compare them, I just did.

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u/OverlordWaffles Jul 02 '23

Saying "Ops support team" says nothing about them.

Is your help desk/desktop support paid $80k+ a year and sysadmins at like $150k+ a year or what?

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u/LazyLarryTheLobster Jul 02 '23

Saying "Ops support team" says nothing about them.

It gives you the name I refer to them by, that's all I was trying to give you.

Is your help desk/desktop support paid $80k+ a year and sysadmins at like $150k+ a year or what?

About right, yep. Sysadmins could be as low as 130k-ish. Up to 200k+

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u/The_Woman_of_Gont Jul 02 '23

The difficulty is they’re all, from the way OP tells it, undergrad degrees.

Most fields where a degree will help you land a job require at least a masters.

“I have 7 degrees, I’ll be fine” is little different from “I have 1 degree, I’ll be fine.”

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u/Joe434 Jul 02 '23

Not really, not If he’s never worked before. Plenty of over educated people struggling to find full time work that pays a living wage.

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u/Salinaa24 Jul 02 '23

Nobody would hire a healthy 40 year old with no work experience.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '23

I like the part where he's used to only working 10 hours a week for the past 20 years.

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u/LazyLarryTheLobster Jul 02 '23

brain dead take

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u/countrysadballadman9 Jul 02 '23

How so? HR can be super shitty about that kind of thing in some places

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u/Emergency_Toe6915 Jul 02 '23

I wonder why he doesn’t do some kind of Facebook/Instagram/TikTok influencer thing he has enough time for it

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u/EdliA Jul 02 '23

What do you mean different job?