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Better than my situation unfortunately. I work as an on-call IT admin some weekends, so I could be closing my eyes and an issue pops up which forces me to wake up and deal with it. Nothing worse.

Ivany2008 posted...

Better than my situation unfortunately. I work as an on-call IT admin some weekends, so I could be closing my eyes and an issue pops up which forces me to wake up and deal with it. Nothing worse.

I'm a network engineer and I'm on call for a week starting tomorrow. At my last job, I was on call 24/7. I'm living that life, lol.

Just leave it? It'll be there tomorrow.

At least it wasn't like one of those violent diarrhea surges.

Waxitron_Gazer posted...

Just leave it? It'll be there tomorrow.

not in my hood lol

IT Infrastructure Engineer here. On call 24/7 cause my "backup" is my boss. Thankfully we have enough safety nets in place to where most alerts can wait until the morning.

CableZL posted...

I'm a network engineer and I'm on call for a week starting tomorrow. At my last job, I was on call 24/7. I'm living that life, lol.

yeah.... isn't fun. Since I'm salary I ended up working Christmas weekend. That really irritated me, as I was on holidays to my hometown, and was forced to be stuck at my aunts house, not able to visit relatives. Mom paid for a plane ticket home, only for me to find out that night that I was off for the next week..... I was livid.

Ivany2008 posted...

yeah.... isn't fun. Since I'm salary I ended up working Christmas weekend. That really irritated me, as I was on holidays to my hometown, and was forced to be stuck at my aunts house, not able to visit relatives. Mom paid for a plane ticket home, only for me to find out that night that I was off for the next week..... I was livid.

That's terrible man. Went through several of those situations when I was first coming up in IT. Once I got away from generalized IT and specialized in a particular field, my workload and on call related work dropped significantly.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

That's terrible man. Went through several of those situations when I was first coming up in IT. Once I got away from generalized IT and specialized in a particular field, my workload and on call related work dropped significantly.

It's grunt work sadly. Part of the perks of being fresh in the field. I don't even get paid as much as other places, only 42/y CAD starting out. I'm just sticking around long enough for these things to stick then moving on to better pastures.

Ivany2008 posted...

It's grunt work sadly. Part of the perks of being fresh in the field. I don't even get paid as much as other places, only 42/y CAD starting out. I'm just sticking around long enough for these things to stick then moving on to better pastures.

Like I said, I've been there. Just tossing out some general IT career advice. I know many people who make it to the traditional jack of all trades sysadmin role and stop cause they think the only next step is management. They spend decades working long hours and dealing with the same nonsense you're currently dealing with. It's not until you specialize that you break away from all that. For instance, I went into virtualization and storage stuff which led into cloud infrastructure.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Like I said, I've been there. Just tossing out some general IT career advice. I know many people who make it to the traditional jack of all trades sysadmin role and stop cause they think the only next step is management. They spend decades working long hours and dealing with the same nonsense you're currently dealing with. It's not until you specialize that you break away from all that. For instance, I went into virtualization and storage stuff which led into cloud infrastructure.

The original goal was IT repair. Sadly, everyone and their mother has the ability to do basic repairs these days, and compared to networking, it just doesn't pay as much. I don't need a ridiculous paycheck but I would like to reach the 120k range at some point.

Ivany2008 posted...

The original goal was IT repair. Sadly, everyone and their mother has the ability to do basic repairs these days, and compared to networking, it just doesn't pay as much. I don't need a ridiculous paycheck but I would like to reach the 120k range at some point.

Ah I remember talking to you about this before. Yeah IT repair just isn't a thing anymore unless you open some podunk local computer shop. Are you looking to move into networking or some other IT field?

Sorry to derail the topic CableZL.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Ah I remember talking to you about this before. Yeah IT repair just isn't a thing anymore unless you open some podunk local computer shop. Are you looking to move into networking or some other IT field?

Sorry to derail the topic CableZL.

Don't know just yet. I literally just dipped my toes in, so I'm taking my time getting used to this job before I venture into other avenues.

Ivany2008 posted...

yeah.... isn't fun. Since I'm salary I ended up working Christmas weekend. That really irritated me, as I was on holidays to my hometown, and was forced to be stuck at my aunts house, not able to visit relatives. Mom paid for a plane ticket home, only for me to find out that night that I was off for the next week..... I was livid.

Yeah, one of my big reasons for leaving my old job was that I was constantly working 60 - 80 hour weeks and they did not give two shits. They had some "rule" where it you're constantly working 60 hours or more, they were supposed to hire people to help. They wouldn't hire anyone to help me. After a lot of begging and pleading, they finally brought on a contractor. There was so much work to do that we were both working 60 - 80 hour weeks. My dad died in late 2018. I was working on the way to his funeral.

The system administrator and the security architect both quit on the same day in 2019. Then I had to manage the firewalls by myself. I started looking for another job because I had had enough

CableZL posted...

Yeah, one of my big reasons for leaving my old job was that I was constantly working 60 - 80 hour weeks and they did not give two shits. They had some "rule" where it you're constantly working 60 hours or more, they were supposed to hire people to help. They wouldn't hire anyone to help me. After a lot of begging and pleading, they finally brought on a contractor. There was so much work to do that we were both working 60 - 80 hour weeks. My dad died in late 2018. I was working on the way to his funeral.

The system administrator and the security architect both quit on the same day in 2019. Then I had to manage the firewalls by myself. I started looking for another job because I had had enough

my current job I'm just bored. I work from home, but its more switchboard than anything else. So I might take 3 calls a night, I don't really like playing games while I'm working but that's mostly what I'm doing these days.

Ivany2008 posted...

my current job I'm just bored. I work from home, but its more switchboard than anything else. So I might take 3 calls a night, I don't really like playing games while I'm working but that's mostly what I'm doing these days.

So why aren't you using that time to learn new things? You're wasting an opportunity to self learn during company time in order to move on to a better paying job.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

So why aren't you using that time to learn new things? You're wasting an opportunity to self learn during company time in order to move on to a better paying job.

Because I'm a moron with really bad ADD lol. I get distracted extremely quickly. I really need to start making a list of things that I can touch up again.

Ivany2008 posted...

Because I'm a moron with really bad ADD lol. I get distracted extremely quickly. I really need to start making a list of things that I can touch up again.

Certainly not making it to $120k like that. Lol
Might need to change up your work space at home away from the game systems to prevent that temptation. My home office is in a separate room from my video games.

BlazinBlue88 posted...

Certainly not making it to $120k like that. Lol
Might need to change up your work space at home away from the game systems to prevent that temptation. My home office is in a separate room from my video games.

Wish I could. Not really an option where I live. Moved in with my parents after a health scare, so I don't really have room for an office. Later the year when I move out I will probably turn a second bedroom into a proper office.

Ivany2008 posted...

my current job I'm just bored. I work from home, but its more switchboard than anything else. So I might take 3 calls a night, I don't really like playing games while I'm working but that's mostly what I'm doing these days.

That's what I was doing at first when I worked graveyard shifts in a network operations center. About 6 months into that job, i decided to get serious and go for Cisco certs. Things really took off from there.

CableZL posted...

That's what I was doing at first when I worked graveyard shifts in a network operations center. About 6 months into that job, i decided to get serious and go for Cisco certs. Things really took off from there.

I have completed some Cisco certs, but hell if I could tell you which ones I actually completed. Our college was really unorganized. All online, and as soon as college ended they blacklisted us from all of our learning material, so even if I wanted to go back and review what certifications I finished, I can't. I would have to do them all again anyways, simply because I'll be honest, more than half of them I YouTubed. It was the only way to keep up with our material, as they kept pushing assignments on us.

That does remind me that I do have a bunch of online books that I forgot about that I should go back and review. Something to think about over the weekend.

Ivany2008 posted...

Wish I could. Not really an option where I live. Moved in with my parents after a health scare, so I don't really have room for an office. Later the year when I move out I will probably turn a second bedroom into a proper office.

Wasn't really talking about you having an office. Just saying to maybe work in a different location of the house away from your games if possible. That or spend more free time studying since you're spending your work time gaming.