ShadowDV

County IT here. Straight chillin' on No Change Friday. County 911 dispatch got hit on their phone system, but they had redundant systems in place and were back up and running in about 30 minutes.

Sysadmin who quit the field last July and became a locksmith, AMA

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I assure you it is true LCOL. Median income in the county is 35,000. 4 bed, 2 bath apartments for 1400 ($350 per person) are a dime a dozen here. 55k is not overpaid for our support people. If they were just phone support, maybe, but they go do desk side troubleshooting, printer and laptop deployments, etc. They make it so me, one of the network guys, never have to interact with end users. That itself is worth the pay

Sysadmin who quit the field last July and became a locksmith, AMA

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ShadowDV@reddit

I live in a lcol area in the Midwest and work for local government. We start help desk at 55k

Dealing with Unreasonable PC Request?

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Then it’s time to be the asshole. I say this as an admin with a father with dementia who I look after quite a bit. WFH is still work. Are they working for your company or are they a caretaker drawing a paycheck from your company? It can’t be both. They need to fit their needs around what the company can provide, not the other way around.

Dealing with Unreasonable PC Request?

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ShadowDV@reddit

If they’ll accept a USB number pad, that opens up your option considerably.

I really feel like the entire cert/educational apparatus for cyber security is basically a huge grift

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ShadowDV@reddit

easiest way to get cage nuts out without bleeding is have the junior guy do it. Second easiest is use the $10 cage nut tool.

Do companies actually find qualified admins for 50k?

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ShadowDV@reddit

Not previous poster, but we do here as well; MCOL area, Midwest, local government.

Do you ever feel like you are on the wrong side of history -rant-ish

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ShadowDV@reddit

There is a huge ideological difference between working for DoD vs your local county gov.

Do non-Microsoft enterprises actually exist?

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no shit... but total comp packages for a team of 4 can easily be over that.

What's the average amount of people in the IT department for a large corp?

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ShadowDV@reddit

Handling servers, firewalls, email admin, AD/Entra, account provisioning, switching and routing, SQL, website, wireless, compliance, backups, storage, DR? Everything? Fuck that

AD? What’s that?

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100% I’ll design, implement and upgrade network infrastructure all day long; but I’ll plead ignorance on anything involving Windows Server, storage, or backups

AD? What’s that?

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If it can’t be configured in Putty, I don’t want anything to do with it.

MSP to in house IT.. Still struggling years later

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You aren't paid for how much time you spend pushing buttons. You are paid for knowing what button the press when the time comes.

Is networking the hardest part of sysadmin job ?

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ShadowDV@reddit

screenshotted and posted into my team groupchat

Is networking the hardest part of sysadmin job ?

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ShadowDV@reddit

I work for local government level. We use /25, /24, /27, and quite a few /28 and /29. But primarily /24 though.

Is networking the hardest part of sysadmin job ?

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ShadowDV@reddit

Most of the non-cisco branded stuff you can get from Net+

Im going into my first IT job soon; terrified honestly

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Dude, I’ve been in network infrastructure for 20 years. Even when we hire on someone experienced, it’s accepted that it takes them 3-4 months to really get up to speed on a new network. You are in an entry level network position. No one is gonna expect much out of you the first 6 months. Learn, ask questions (but don’t keep asking the same ones). Don’t be afraid to tackle stuff outside your comfort zone. Let ChatGPT be your friend. In fact, spend the 20/month to get ChatGPT plus. It is a surprisingly competent network engineer and good at answering questions.

Im going into my first IT job soon; terrified honestly

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Tesla Model 3 for $20K? New norm?

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Tires on my last wrangler went 85k

Tesla Model 3 for $20K? New norm?

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10 year/100,000 bumper to bumper on my Hyundai

ULPT: The person at the DMV mistakenly gave me Veteran status on my Driver’s License. How can I use this to my advantage?

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Ignorance, show thyself!

ULPT: The person at the DMV mistakenly gave me Veteran status on my Driver’s License. How can I use this to my advantage?

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We clearly won the military battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan. But you can win every battle and still lose the war due to politics. The failure in both those instances were in the administrations, Congress, and the State Department. We were in both countries long enough to build infrastructure and schools, stim tide of fundamentalism, and educate an entire generation in both countries. But that doesn’t get votes or $$$. So we fell trap to the same thing that happened in ‘89. Create power vacuums with no plan, and let the crazies roll in and take control.

ULPT: The person at the DMV mistakenly gave me Veteran status on my Driver’s License. How can I use this to my advantage?

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Because no real vet would ever say that. It’s a brother(sister)hood. And anyone who doesn’t want to be identified as a vet isn’t going to get the designation on their license anyway.

Oscar Pistorius was granted parole —10 years after killing his girlfriend. I was shocked.

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ShadowDV@reddit

He wasn’t sure he would be granted parole, but he took a shot in the dark.

Wasted $$$ - What was the most expensive item you ever bought for IT that did not get used but you ended up getting stuck with?

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ShadowDV@reddit

Cisco’s network management platform that doesn’t really work as a network management platform.

Wasted $$$ - What was the most expensive item you ever bought for IT that did not get used but you ended up getting stuck with?

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My boss just ordered DNA licenses, so there’s that.

Wasted $$$ - What was the most expensive item you ever bought for IT that did not get used but you ended up getting stuck with?

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ShadowDV@reddit

Ivanti; for when you feel like your monthly server patching isn’t taking long enough.

Wasted $$$ - What was the most expensive item you ever bought for IT that did not get used but you ended up getting stuck with?

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That is an issue…

Wasted $$$ - What was the most expensive item you ever bought for IT that did not get used but you ended up getting stuck with?

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ShadowDV@reddit

And now, as long as you have line of site, that issue can be fixed with a few hundred dollars worth of Ubiquity airFiber gear.

An Airbus 380 is on its way across the Atlantic. It flies consistently at 800 km/h at 30,000 feet, when suddenly a Eurofighter with a Tempo Mach 2 appears.

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