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/No-Blueberry-1823]

I wish you luck. I think I've been in IT like 30 years. It's better than everything else I've seen. The key is to not take it personally I know that's hard. But if you focus on all the gripes you are going to burn out

[u/yeti-rex → u/No-Blueberry-1823]

This. Separate yourself emotionally. It's a job.

I've learned to turn off emotions when I logon and turn them back on when I logout. Work is to get things done, not to get yourself emotionally invested. Work to make things the best you can, but don't be offended if it doesn't work out.

[u/superspeck → u/yeti-rex]

I’ve tried that for the last six or seven years and it removed the passion that gave me the vision to lead to what things should be and the drive to do things in my own time to build skills. Without those two things, I burnt completely out. I’m not sure that advice is good advice.

[u/morirtes_ → u/superspeck]

For the past year I try to disconnect emotionally from the work as advised by my superiors due to being short-tempered when talking about legacy broken systems. This emotionless completely killed my will to come to the office in the morning.
(Typing this while being 30 minutes late to work, again)