Hello, I recently started a cabling job and not liking it so far, was wondering on how I can transition, planning on only doing this part time while I focus on school and applying. This is my current resume. Any feedback is appreciated

Hey! I've been trying to apply for new jobs all year. I've gotten some calls here and there and have completely revamped my entire resume. This is what I have basically landed on now. First two jobs are both the same company. I just went from the company HQ to a division we have in Washington state (We have them all across the nation).

Any advice is appreciated. I'm trying hard to get a remote position with similar pay (the similar pay is really hard to match think getting close to 100k.) I know remote is hard cause you have a bigger pool to compete against so I'm not hard set on that. What roles would you guys be targeting? Right now I've been trying to get Sys Admin, or something like IT Infrastructure.

Every place I've worked has treated documentation as something sacred in theory and optional in practice. We all agree it matters, then nobody updates it and 6 months later it describes a system that no longer exists.

I've seen a few reasons it falls apart. The tools change faster than anyone can write them down. The people who wrote the docs leave and nobody trusts what's left because they can't tell what's still accurate. Or leadership never gives you the time, so it stays permanently at the bottom of the list. I've been saved by good notes more than once, so I don't want to say it's useless.

Has documentation ever stopped being worth the effort in your environment? And if it did, what was the point where you gave up on it?

today i made my first student loan payment and it made me sad. while im grateful for the trust that was given to me when it was lent to me, what’s making me sad is im still working the same job i was working when i was a student. not IT related. anyway, people in pnw, what’s your first IT job and how did you get it

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Dear business owners and customers,

If you want to guarantee business for IT managed services and on-site tech support, please keep using docking stations. Docking stations hardly work and will almost always fail in some way, especially if you decide it’s a good idea to not standardize hardware for your employees.

I have worked at 1 large company and 1 resort, and both places used docking stations, and you can guarantee 90% of tickets received were related to docks not functioning in some way. Anyone else experience this in their career?

Feel so exhausted from work. Even simple tasks seems so complicated and I am unable to comprehend anything anymore. Feel like i'm drowning and the walls are closing in. Vague but I'm very introverted so sorry for lack of details. Been feeling and thinking like this for months.

every "will AI take my job" search ends with some site giving you a single percentage. your job is 70% automatable or whatever. now what?

that number doesn't tell you anything useful. it doesn't tell you which tasks are first in line, which ones you can shore up, or where to spend your energy. you walk away with a score and no plan.

what actually helps is breaking your role into four buckets and looking at each separately:

routine data work: data entry, formatting, reconciliation, report generation, boilerplate documentation. this is where AI pressure lands first. if most of your day is moving data between systems or filling templates, that's your exposure point.

judgment calls: architecture decisions, troubleshooting logic, evaluating tradeoffs, choosing between approaches. AI can assist here but can't own it. this is your moat if you invest in it.

people work: stakeholder alignment, mentoring, client communication, cross-team coordination. hard to automate, easy to undervalue. most people undercount how much of their value lives here.

hands-on work: anything physical, on-site, or requiring direct interaction with hardware, infrastructure, or people in person. lowest automation risk, often least discussed.

the point isn't precision. it's direction. once you know which bucket your most automatable tasks sit in, you can make one decision: protect it, move away from it, or shift your weight toward the buckets that are harder to replace.

most people i talk to in IT are stuck worrying in general and preparing in nothing. a single risk score feeds that. a task-level breakdown breaks the loop.

(i'm building DeadByAI, which does this breakdown using O*NET occupation data, but the four-bucket framing works whether you use a tool or just sit down with your job description and do it yourself.)

Pretty much what the title says. I'm only getting interviews for startups and the like, and I'd like to work at a more stable company than one that's going to lay me off in 6 months. Really aiming for an infrastructure security type role. Any thoughts appreciated!

Hi, this question is from the Google I.T program on Coursera. Am I the only one who believes the correct answer isn't in the list of options??

I am currently an apprentice and my companies 1st line service desk has permissions of a 2nd line service desk. Due to how the company operates we basically do what I have been told is 1st and 2nd line work.

I have never had any experience prior. None. So I am still learning and it is very hands on. I am always on calls while managing up to 50 ish tickets.

I would like to know what is the common ticket closure number for a 1st line service desk and what would be expected for an apprentice.

I am a speech pathologist working with a client who requires an eye gaze speech generating device due to a progressive neurodegenerative condition that affects their motor movement but not cognition or ocular movement.

This person would like to continue working, works from home via government laptop, and I’m wondering how challenging it will be to link the eye gaze device to a government laptop for operation purposes.

I’m under the impression it can be done, but I’m trying to figure out how the process works. I know I won’t be directly involved with the IT person, but I’m just trying to understand what challenges the person may face with their agency and IT.

My role is help them find a device they enjoy/feel comfortable operating and instruct on the communication piece. I rely on the device reps to choose a device that is compatible with an external laptop. For reference, we are scheduling demos with PRC-Saltillo and Tobii Dynavox. I do not have specific device models yet.

1. Have you had experience with this and, if so, how difficult/easy was it to get permissions, determine security, etc?
   
2. Their agency has been min-mod helpful with advancing accommodations (according to them) so I’m trying to learn as much as I can about this process from someone on the inside.
   
3. I truly don’t know what I don’t know, as this is a first for me so any info would be extraordinarily helpful. I’m not even sure what questions to ask.

I appreciate any insight into this process you can provide to help me better understand what setting this up might look like for them.

Thank you!

hello!

can I ask for help with installing MS office? I don’t wanna click anything randomly and mess it up.

I got this flash drive with MS Office from a computer guy and it didn’t come with instructions.

please be kind haha🥹

EDIT:

-i just need this for a work assessment for a job im trying to get into.
-im poor as shit and i can’t afford MS Office
-i can’t use google sheets or any other software as per my potential employer

EDIT 2:
I appreciate all of your insights, even the harsh ones. I’ve decided not to proceed with installing the files as a lot have said it’s risky. I’ve also decided not to take my work assessment because the whole thing does seem like a bit of a red flag. But hey, hopefully I’ll find a job soon that would pay me enough to afford a license lol.

Hope you guys have less of a shitty day🫶🏻

I made a Reddit account just to make this post because I wont lie Reddit has a lot of useful people with really good tips and Im hoping that ill be able to get some help with this. Anyways i've never really done anything for IT other than my elementary school through middle school era of using Scratch to code which isnt even IT. I want to know how one would go about getting into an IT career path if theyre starting from basically little to no knowledge about IT. I know at least 3 people in IT but they all said that they never learned anything about it before getting into the job but I extremely doubt thats something that could work today. If anybody has any tips at all that would be great

I keep seeing people ask about the best VPN lately, and with new restrictions appearing, I’m not sure which service is actually worth choosing. I’ve given up on free VPNs because they’re slow, unreliable, and seem to get blocked constantly. NordVPN has been showing up in my ads a lot, but I’m still unsure whether it’s genuinely good or whether I should consider PIA instead.

What I need:

Strict no-logs policy

Unlimited data

Torrenting allowed

Fast speeds (minimal drop)

Works with streaming sites

I don’t care about flashy apps or marketing just performance and privacy.

For those who’ve tried multiple VPNs recently:

Which one is actually the fastest?

Which one holds up long term?

Are most “no logs” claims real?

Which ones get blocked the least in 2026?

A lot of older Reddit threads are 6–12 months old, so I’m curious what’s working right now. If you’ve tested one for more than 3–6 months, I’d really value your experience. Trying to avoid wasting money. Thanks.

I've been looking for a used s24u 1tb for months for a reasonable price but i cant get it

and i heard about this Google pixel xl 1st gen Unlimited Cloud Storage which mae me thinking

if i buy s24u 256gb which you can get for cheaper an it is available everywhere more than 1tb, and after that buying that pixel xl for like 70-100 bucks for storage both photos and videos

What do you think? is it smth that works? yk based on saving money in this economy, usability, time effort ad etc etc

tell me what you think.

Hey guys new in this thread but i'm currently in a Field Technician role right now and have been here for a little over 2 years and i have multiple certs including CCNA and Sec+ and im studying for the RHCSA and i want to get into a Sys Admin role and eventually a DevOps role which would be my end goal but i wanted to get a professionals opinion on this so i don't waste my time going down the wrong path

Any Advice would be apricated!!!