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adapt - that's how Romans conquered their biggest foes. Guess that's relevant in modern career as well :)

Personally I'm looking into moving from cloud engineering & admin (been doing that for 4 years now, did 6 years of support and some projects before) to architecture. I guess I'm relatively lucky (or maybe unlucky) I know how to get round biz people. Knowing how to listen, acknowledge and translate that into actual valuable and working technology is something that I don't think AI will be able to do too soon.

Creative ideas... does updating your resume count ?

I love AI as a toolset as well, same reasons as you. It's great to help me think when I'm stuck. However, because AI does basically what you tell it with enthusiasm (unless you specifically prompt it to do the thing in a more intelligent, concise, critical way) that's often the result you experience. I'm really wandering what kind of disaster or set of disasters needs to happen before people that AI is not THE solution. It's a great tool, very helpful but it's not ducktape, a quick and easy solution to every problem. Including problems which aren't even real as you pointed out.

I never thought of that. The first enterprise I worked for was UK-based and I thought "raise a ticket" is a common English expression across the industry.

If we talk progress then it depends on how you like to learn. Having other IT people around is really helpful for getting their insight and experience, especially if they're more senior\\experienced than you. If you like being independent and are self-driven then I don't think getting solid experience and progressing your skills would be a problem. Do you ever plan going on a holiday tho? I know a guy who used to be a 1-man army for 2 years in a similar size company and taking some time off was a nightmare. They finally hired me to help him and he was able to take some actual time off lol.

"How do I even begin to convince someone like this the dangers of what they are asking" I wouldn't even entertain that question because it's users irrational behavior that's it. Maybe she's trying to power trip, whatever. If she doesn't care about technology security and compliance and she goes to the CEO, it's the CEO should at this point be fully aware of why what she asks is ridiculous. My answer in such cases is "no" because that's the policy, and since this policy if valid, end of story. If she pesters you still then go to HR. The HR care about keeping the company safe against malicious actions of their employees and that's what I think this user is doing. I remember I once had a user who wanted Steam installed on their company laptop. The cybersec policy clearly stated no gaming software on user laptops (that's what social room has an Xbox for) and I politely and professionally said denied due to company policy, ticket closed. The guy left negative feedback on the ticket and it went to the IT management. Do you think that the IT director ever brought this to me? LOL heck no!!

Just put some clothes on.

mynoise net :)

Reading and adapting scripts is very much needed. A lot of folks rely on community resources for the big picture. Writing from scratch as if you were a programmer - not so much. Although it can be a strength if you wanna take advantage of IaC as well as advanced automation.

Sounds like a security baseline policy forced by some standard company needs to follow

Read the entire post. Should I get a reward or get checked...?

Pretty much.

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A bunch of times. It was all about stumbling on right people and being willing to listen. Some of them were my managers, some of them tech people. When those competent people would all leave, I'd eventually switch jobs to somewhere I'd be able to grow.

I love used laptops. ThinkPads rock.

Intune can handle Macs to a degree. Not sure how far you need to go with securing your devices.