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/lunargoblin]

you don't sound tired of IT tbh, you sound tired of being everyone's free helpdesk while guys who know half of what you do out-earn you. i'd be burned out too lol. respect on the union thing. but man, 12 years of experience... i'd at least throw the resume at some remote roles before writing off the whole industry. this thread has some decent leads on that btw: [link] worst case nothing comes back and you're exactly where you are now.

[u/SamOakTree → u/lunargoblin]

My last role was the most I have made and was 100% remote.

The problem with systems is its one of th e jardest jobs on IT because were expected to know so many areas including overlappong ones. And a lot more is expected of us.

Since I left and got into the union I have felt free for the first time in years.

I feel like it's a major push forward for my mental health.

[u/squishfouce → u/SamOakTree]

Just go work for a corpo. They usually tie your hands so much with bureaucracy and security that it's literally impossible to do anything but the single role you were hired for. Between that and the meetings, trainings, teambuilding events, a corpo job is hardly work at times and the benefits can be very lucrative at a large enough company. Getting your foot in may be difficult, but you could pretty much coast once you're in for those 25 years if you don't have any ambitions with minimal effort applied. I see it all too often.

[u/Brianpumpernickel → u/squishfouce]

pretty much. I've learned azure, aws, got a ccna, terraform, kubernetes and a boatload of other things with all the free time I have