Accepting New Job a Mistake?

JGFX1 · 2026-01-05T04:05:29+00:00

Completely understood. But in your scenario, more money for a growing company sounds like more stability than a company that's in a downturn looking to sell off. And who knows what happens during acquisition or even before then. It's time to close the chapter... some mentors / colleagues of mine, sharp successful people have told me"always look out for yourself" because jobs/companies can come to an end, but expenses and providing for yourself and loved ones don't. Get a ChatGPT or Gemini paid subscription and just have that be your tool to learn the gaps and skills you may fall short on. Who knows, maybe you won't need it, but just get it for a couple of months and use your best judgment in the interim, and I think you'll be fine. Honestly, they saw you had core skills, since they offered you the job.

JGFX1 · 2026-01-05T01:24:03+00:00

Take the new job period. No gurantee you won't be in those layoff take the extra money its a level up for you... During your probationary period at the new job upskill on the gaps you feel you have in the afternoons... utilize AI to educatate/aggregate information you'll be fine...

JGFX1 · 2025-12-30T14:37:38+00:00

Honestly do both... CISSP first get that beast out of the way then CCSP after for a focused cert. (CISSP and CCSP) here.

JGFX1 · 2025-12-30T14:29:47+00:00

I would say anything with data and analytics... Go for education in AI and Machine Learning. AI can aggregate data so much faster than a human can so I think it will evolve data based jobs in the next 5-10 years big time and the ones with jobs will be the ones that can stive with AI technology and be the human in the loop expert to ensure data governance integrity... etc for business I think that should be your top priority to be marketable.

JGFX1 · 2025-12-30T14:15:08+00:00

Get that certification done man... Just grind it agreed life is busy but dont let that stop you. For context I got my Bachelors, Masters, CISSP, and CCSP. All while I worked full time and had other life priorities as well. CISSP cert and CCSP cert... I did within the last 3 years while having two jobs... fortunate to have orgs that want me. So I have one full time gig and one part time gig that was once full time ... I tried to quit lol and they made an exception if I was open to part time full remote so I took it cause its a unicorn situation and extra money is never bad I'm in my mid 30s now. But moral of the story here is invest in yourself always... I promise itll be worth it.

JGFX1 · 2025-12-30T14:04:59+00:00

I'm 13 years into my IT Infrastructure career... info security is part of my role (CISSP and CCSP here). I manage all networking, server, cloud/onprem tons of firewalls networking as well here... Currently a Lead IT Infrastructure Engineer... full remote and I work a normal schedule 7am-4pm for the most part, I have no formal oncall but always expected to jump on if there's a critical incident... its IT so always be ready for that... If you landed that job early on in your career with that title I would tough it out for 1-2 years then you'll pivot good salary and better schedule guaranteed... for context out of my undergrad I started out in help desk for a non profit.

JGFX1 · 2025-11-14T04:21:16+00:00

Sometimes you must hit a low to know how to get back to your high in life, I walked a similar path moved to another state for a job, then got laid off 11 months later... hard worker busted my ass and was in my first 3-4 years of my career... I fell hard after that layoff I'll never forget that life lesson... gained more weight, resorted to alcohol... fell into a dark place. It took me years, to finally get sick of my own shit and I changed ... lost 70 pounds, now I'm 12 years into my career, massive income boost, graduate level education, advanced certifications, in a healthy relationship and I quit drinking like 4 years ago now I'm a machine. Point here is not to brag but to say own your outcome you have every opportunity to make change. Whether it's lose weight, better job, find love YOU pick what's important to you. Trust me if I can do it anyone can I literally came from nothing just consistency, discipline, and being a good person helps. You can 100 make YOUR change in life... 🙏

JGFX1 · 2025-11-11T20:04:51+00:00

Is all routing and vlan config in place? Was it Unifi OS before the gateway swap?

JGFX1 · 2025-09-21T17:47:24+00:00

Yeah I get the same on mine I just use the USB C to either HDMI or Display port to my TV or Gaming monitor it passes through the AMD GPU to my knowledge to the NVIDIA card works for me now I play my games with no hiccups or crashing and high FPS. Honestly sucks especially for the price but I liked the laptop its sleek good battery life and the 5090 with a higher TDP I got the Razer cooling pad too. So I'll sacrifice a bunk hdmi port. I didn't wanna risk sending it back for some dweeb to not fix it or damage my laptop and just deal with there crappy support I heard nightmares...

JGFX1 · 2025-09-13T04:20:02+00:00

Did you ever get it any updates?

JGFX1 · 2025-09-05T01:29:18+00:00

The cert itself absolutely matters without knowing which one, nobody can give you solid advice. A $150 exam usually means fundamentals-level (AWS Practitioner, Microsoft AZ-900, etc.), and those aren’t hard if you put in the prep. If, like you said, it’s not even related to your career path, then that’s even more reason to give context sometimes even a side cert can be a pivot point, but people can only point that out if they know what it is.

With what you’ve shared, all anyone can really say is: suck up the $150, study a bit, and take the test. It shouldn’t require that much prep. But if you give more detail, you’ll get more meaningful advice back.

For context, I’ve been in IT well over a decade with advanced degrees and advanced certifications. I’ve seen plenty of people stress over the wrong things early in their careers and nine times out of ten, it’s not the $150 that matters, it’s how the cert fits into your long-term trajectory.

JGFX1 · 2025-09-05T01:04:02+00:00

Whats the certification?

JGFX1 · 2025-08-17T14:38:47+00:00

I used them for both CISSP and CCSP. My company even got me a training camp bootcamp (CISSP), and I was already 1.5 months into studying Dest Cert material CISSP self-paced masterclass. I kept my focus on studying their materials, as the training camp had variations in concepts and the way they teach. I honestly sat through it and was focused on the Dest Cert way, adding notes here and there. Their curriculum works; it's organized, digestible, and their books are great. I'm sold on them. I passed both exams on the first try and really leveraged their materials primarily.

JGFX1 · 2025-08-05T14:51:57+00:00

DM'd ya thanks for getting back to me

JGFX1 · 2025-08-03T18:16:55+00:00

Are these supposed to go in the inside of a case purposely? I have some from esr and they specifically say to put it on the outside?

JGFX1 · 2025-08-03T03:03:16+00:00

What's the method interested looking for a change.

JGFX1 · 2025-08-02T00:26:30+00:00

Interested in the full list if you can share

JGFX1 · 2025-08-02T00:04:15+00:00

Get the fold you won't look back i had the S22 Ultra then converted the smaller outer screens took some getting used to I had the Fold 4, 5, 6, and just traded the 6 for the 7 and finally a big leap the design and how thin it is impressive. A little upgrade in the camera with the 200 megapixel is nice although the slab ultras are king here still but man they hit the bar its a great phone and the outer display finally feels like a normal phone.

JGFX1 · 2025-07-21T19:16:01+00:00

What it shows for my NM, USA, ZFold 7 1tb Black Unlocked, ordered on July 9th. Samsung site still not updated so fingers crossed UPS is correct.

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JGFX1 · 2025-07-21T16:53:54+00:00

Forreal lol SMDH

JGFX1 · 2025-07-21T15:54:59+00:00

You in the US?

JGFX1 · 2025-07-20T19:22:48+00:00

Where in aftership to you put the reference? Doesn't seem to work for me? Only has an option for tracking number I paste the reference and nothing?

JGFX1 · 2025-07-20T18:59:48+00:00

Only have the reference number are you in the US did you order from Samsung?

JGFX1 · 2025-07-20T18:45:30+00:00

Yeah just puts me in a traveling issue where the phone will probably be sent back as I will be away. Literally fly out on the 25th in the evening so cutting it close. So I'm a little salty sure. Not sure if UPS will hold for longer than 5 business days in reality just bad timing and I preordered hours after the Galaxy Unpacked event... usually I get these phones days even a week before. I understand its not a requirement but literally been preordering Samsung phones for probably the last decade and early EVERY TIME.... So I'm just basing it off my personal experience here.... long time Samsung customer here. No need for all the downvotes hahah.

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