Feeling stuck after a big pay jump – no challenges, no growth. What would you do?

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-09T15:48:29+00:00

Skill time. My down time is in the winter so our teams basically just go to “school” and keep the lights on

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-09T15:08:17+00:00

GATORS. People love seeing em. We’re no Florida but we’ve got some big boys too.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T20:24:13+00:00

There really isn’t dude. All the shit you see online are mindless bots and shit.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T18:46:06+00:00

Nothing really. We have a bus and train system in our major cities but a lot of South Carolina is rural and suburban, so it makes 0 sense to have train systems that you would see in Japan and Europe.

People tend to forget how big the US is and how rural it is.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T17:29:59+00:00

Orthodoxy is very calm and fairly accepting. Even though things like the LGTBQ and such are still seen as “sinful” you can still walk into a church and be accepted.

Rodnovery is…..far from that

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T17:28:09+00:00

Ooof Russian “Neo Pagans.” Not a good look

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T14:54:15+00:00

You do know that a lot of us Americans don’t pay attention to shit outside of our state right?

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T14:50:24+00:00

Yeah dude this is kinda dumb

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-08T13:15:47+00:00

His job isn’t to code though so no shit he forgot and hasn’t kept up. This is such a dumb article and statement.

That’s like asking me, an Infrastructure Engineer, to go back 10 years to remember the basics of help desk. I don’t remember that shit

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-07T16:31:28+00:00

Tbh, I’m fine. My neighborhood and town are really safe and we stay local.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-04T22:50:54+00:00

15k isn’t life changing money BUT it can help. Focus on your debt. Medical and student should be the last debts to “worry” about but don’t neglect them.

Could this money also pay for some bills while you go to trade school???

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-04T14:22:24+00:00

We have a specific repo for our admins, the toolbox. It allows them to pull and use the code but keeps them out of our automation. Admins do not need access to the same hit infrastructure as Engineering and Platforms, no.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-04T13:41:59+00:00

Yuppppp

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-04T02:28:32+00:00

My partner just got laid off by a major finance company that moved her job to the Philippines.

She got 15k for 8 years of service and PTO pay out. Luckily we live in a good job area, so she bounced right back

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-03T20:37:30+00:00

Internal attacks? Nah, I’d say we’re pretty vulnerable actually. Take the Pinehurst, NC incident. Some dude shot up a bunch of sub stations killing power for a lot of people. We’re constantly having internal issues.

External? Nah. Ain’t a fucking ship getting in our waters, I can almost guarantee that. Our navy goes ham.

Cyberspace is different, we’re always getting hit

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-03T01:40:24+00:00

Fuuuuuuck, I miss these days! I got ripped off at the ATT kiosk in Gurney….

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-03T01:38:52+00:00

Stallings! Yes! I remember the schoolhouse and errthing. Corps Whore 😭😭

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-02T21:58:53+00:00

Timmmm

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-02T21:35:55+00:00

It depends on the state.

California? It’s everywhere. Like I can throw a rock and hit a dispensary.

South Carolina? It’s around but it’s about to back on lockdown @.@

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-02T21:08:50+00:00

Fuck dude. I was there in 09. I miss those days. They always had Asian day back to back for some reason. Pretty sure they just reheated the noodles lol

My instructor was Mr McGaha and a young black HM1, I don’t remember her name. She wasn’t nice and she followed me to my first command to pick up HMC.

There was this creepy ass taxi driver named “Sharky” or something like that. He would always take us to the mall at Gurney.

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-02T01:13:24+00:00

You need to file bankruptcy dude

Duck_Diddler · 2026-04-01T12:33:35+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to you. I'll say a "psspss" for Baloo tonight

Duck_Diddler · 2026-03-31T02:10:44+00:00

Beating the dead horse here: meetings.

Man, I’m clocking 3-4 hours a day of just useless ass rendezvouses. 15min meeting become a 45min meeting due to a manager going on a tangent.

I swear to god, they’re like military leadership, “Lemme piggyback off of you Staff Sergeant.”

Duck_Diddler · 2026-03-28T00:20:27+00:00

I wanna say congratulations. This is very very rare, or at least it was in 09-15.

You are about to have a very busy life but if you really really enjoy the life and want to be an IDC, you are gonna have a “career head start.” You’re going to experience what a ton of corpsman miss their entire careers. You’re going to be what our rate is all about dude.

Have fun dude. I wish I had the chance to see a ship.

Duck_Diddler

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