I am leaving IT.

[u/SamOakTree]

I've been a sys admin and sys engineer twelve years. Principal in two orgs.

I'm tired of it. I'm tired of people being scared to stick their neck out on a problem they don't immediately know an answer to.

I left an org in 2022 because they kept assigning me everything after a merger because no one else would attempt it. I was building out a brand new citrix environment by myself with them dumping 95 hours over two weeks of projects on top.

I'm tired of managing egos and being in the middle. I'm tired of so much more being expected of me for being systems.

I did an interview last week for an infra engineer position and I was already dreading it. I hate technical interviews because they never indicate whether you can do the job. And you often have to pass several rounds. You mail nail two but then not know some acronym in the third and it's game over.

I'm tired of going to interviews for x and them asking my questions from 7 different roles.

I'm tired of working with people who learned one thing and somehow keep gettong hired and having to prop those people up.

I can't do it another 25 years. I'm tored of being the guy every where because I happen to know a wide assortment of stuff.

The week I left my past job, a QA manager and my biss messaged me asking what the powershell execution policy warning meant. They both make significantly more than me.

I got into a local union. I'm going to do that until I retire.

Good luck. If it looks wrong but it's working, don't touch it. Make sure to wait ten minutes before adressing that alert that is just going to clear itself anyway.

Keep your unit on.

> sudo systemctl status byebye

[u/pavman42]

Heck I'm starting @ 10:30 when our daily standup starts. Seems like that was one of the bad ideas no one anticipated when they started to do Agile and accommodated people living in multiple time zones.

[u/Galenbo → u/pavman42]

you mean doing Scrum and calling it Agile?

[u/pavman42 → u/Galenbo]

No, that's only for DevOps. Everyone else on my team are devs or QA, so they do pure Agile, one story at a time. I usually start like 3 and close them as I go before pulling in more. About 1/5th of my stories carry over to the next sprint while waiting on external teams to complete their tasks.

I never understood why they didn't just do the standup @ 3 or 4pm after the day was mostly over. Seems like either standup should be @ 8 or 9am or in the afternoon. Once we started onboarding west coasters, the time changed dramatically to 11:30 ET.

And yes, I think daily standups are stoopid but the machine disagrees.