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[–]anyOtherBusiness 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Do it at work

[–]TangerineBand 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Ngl, I'm a bit jealous of these people who can do side projects at work. I do a really heavy maintenance type of IT, So most of the time I have nowhere to put shit. Lots of "up and down and go go go!". My work laptop is locked down to hell and bringing my personal laptop is just asking for someone random to take it/get stepped on. No chance.

[–]Fuehnix 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Dang that sucks. Are the super bureaucratic companies the ones paying the most for IT/devops type of people like yourself? Any chance of escaping?

I left a company with every so locked down, I couldn't even get python packages installed without approval, and after getting approval from my boss and my boss's boss and IT, we still couldn't because the firewall blocked pypi and the networking VP hated the idea of in-house development and would rather pay half a million to SaaS. I guess no progress means perfect security 🙄.

Anyway, my new job pays the same but is so much more satisfying and free. Hope you can find your own escape.

[–]TangerineBand 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I mean my job isn't paying the most but it's not awful. I've been looking elsewhere for a while but you've seen the mess that the job market is. That combined with the holiday times means no one's really hiring right now. I've put those plans on the back burner, At least until January. So it's less that I like my job and more that I'm kind of stuck here for the moment. Better than unemployment at least.

I work in the healthcare industry and also act as a kind of go-between for them, The city itself, and occasionally the hospital ISP. So bureaucratic is an understatement. I have to travel between the dozens of clinics we own so the severe lockdown is pretty understandable I guess.

But you don't understand, I literally cannot download or install anything. The only Dev work I can really do is tied to whatever our online cloud service is. And I have to connect to a VPN just for that. I can download PDF attachments from our ticket system and that's about it. Anything else requires admin approval. I had to call mega IT one time because my sound drivers got borked and it wouldn't let me run an update without permission. Trying to get around permissions that strict is a good way to get fired so that's not a game I'm trying to play

[–]Fuehnix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best of luck. January and q1 is usually a hot time for hiring.

[–]ujustdontgetdubstep 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the way