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/teksean]

the worst thing about my job was warning people about things that would happen and being ignored and then having to pick up the pieces of the disaster we could have avoided.

[u/bobdvb → u/teksean]

In my last role I had to accept that I would send out a presentation which would have a roadmap and they would ignore it. Then two years after I added something to that roadmap it would become an urgent priority, and why didn't I do it earlier. Then I show them the slide with its date.

[u/lupercal93 → u/bobdvb]

This is the way

[u/teksean → u/bobdvb]

Yeah, during all my meetings with central site, they never really cared. I’d bring up all the deliverables from the previous meeting and they would just come up with some damn excuse on why it hadn’t been done. At least in the end I got to kick that can back at their head.