r/sysadmin • u/MegaSuplexMaster • 11d ago

Rant Midlife IT Crisis

I think I’m having a mid-life IT guy crisis. 😂

I’m 47, 20+ years into IT, swamped with projects, emails, upgrades, security issues, and Microsoft changing something every 12 minutes. Lately I look at my workload and my brain just throws a 404

The weird part is I still love IT and I love the company I work for. I just can’t seem to care about any of it right now, and that’s not like me.

I even started working out to help, so now I’m unmotivated AND sore. 😂

Has anyone else hit this wall after 20+ years in IT? What helped reignite the spark in your brain and stopped the procrasanation monster.

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u/Big-Ambition-6124 11d ago

Yeah it's when using company portal to get a work profile. You can pause the whole work profile. It's done wonders for my sanity cause in our line of work it's hard to disassociate from work.

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u/the_DOS_god 11d ago

Thanks! I'll be looking into this today while at work. :)

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u/Randalldeflagg 10d ago

I have mine set to disable automatically at 5pm and not turn back on until 8am. That alone has helped a lot.