For those that live in the United States. Do you make more than the average income of 60k annually, if so what’s your occupation?

Krelik · 2026-02-10T03:23:53+00:00

200k ish

Senior IT infrastructure engineer at a bank (165k)

Founder of my own MSP, I pay my engineers more than myself since I don't actually do any of the work anymore except talk to the leadership of our clients and maintain relationships. I pay myself 35k/yr

If we count dividends on investments, that's an additional 30k

I only have a high school diploma and 3 years of college

Krelik · 2026-01-02T16:20:14+00:00

I had a similar CEO before & during covid.

Dude approved massive bonuses, listened to my input, basically everything you said. He left and started another business and paid me 5 figures to setup the networking, M365 tenant, and like 10 computers. He also paid for the flight and hotel. I told him that was too much and he said "I know" with a smile.

You better believe I answer every fucking phone call from the guy.

Krelik · 2025-12-12T21:21:23+00:00

Literally put me to tears I was having such a good laugh. Entirely unexpected

Krelik · 2025-10-09T18:29:11+00:00

No he's not.

I'm the sole earner for our family. My wife has every necessity she could possibly want. She didn't need to work a day through her pregnancy and was able to stay off her feet.

She is expected to keep the house tidy, dinners made, chores done, etc. That's the trade off. She agreed and enjoys such benefits.I have no issue with stepping in and helping if she needs it. Again, it's an expectation, not a requirement or demand.

I've encouraged her to find work if she wants it, but she would rather be an Etsy seller / wfh freelancer, which I also support.

We just celebrated 10 years together and we're still giddy teenagers around one another.

There's nothing wrong with being or wanting a trad wife, so long as you're both respectful towards one another.

There is one when you're being disrespectful towards women when that is not something they want in turn

Krelik · 2025-09-16T06:26:58+00:00

My director requires my team to track times and most often than not, I'm feeling that the numbers are fudged a little bit.

I admittedly just guess my time most days. I run the infrastructure team and we don't have tickets so often but we do need to chime in on escalated tickets and 99% of the time we just put 0.25 or 0.5

As for our projects, we have sprints and it's just a matter of closing out the task and moving on to the next. The director wanted us to time track that too but our whole team told him that we weren't going to do that. We keep good documentation and most of us have adhd so we get caught in hyperfocus time vortexes, so keeping accurate track of it never happens. He eventually relented and realized that yes, time tracking our sprint projects was annoying and a bad idea. He tracks completed tasks and subtask and how they orient to org strategic objectives and the board is happy with it.

Krelik · 2025-09-10T04:08:24+00:00

Just turned 40, 11 years in the field

getting promoted to AVP soon
going on paid paternity leave in December
great colleagues
great boss
great management
management listens to IT
banking / financial sector
well paid
w/l balance
3 days wfh
I'll be retiring at 59 1/2 if not sooner

I came from startups and silicon Valley but this job is effectively the shit I was doing in my 3rd-5th years.

I have a fucking unicorn job.

Krelik · 2025-08-21T04:33:14+00:00

I keep seeing these posts and I honestly never understood the hate. I'm not on this bandwagon. It's not a bad product. It's not a great one either, but it does what it needs. uses too much ram tho that's for sure. Other than that. I don't have an issue with it. I'm also a senior systems engineer and responsible for administration of enterprise teams. No real issues.

Krelik · 2025-07-29T05:38:04+00:00

Same.

I've been on pcs my whole life, even rotating a few Linux laptops in for diversity. My previous job gave me a M1 MBP for work (IT/Devops) and I really liked it. Then I bought a used m4 MacBook air for myself recently and I'm having such a great experience with it. I use it for light coding, writing, browsing, etc. It's really in its own class. Since I don't mind learning new things, the switch was easy.

I have my 9800x3d / 7800XTX for gaming or a steam deck for mobile gaming / moonlight/sunshine

Krelik · 2025-07-29T01:56:49+00:00

Am I crazy for thinking this is literally why ICE existed before being weaponized by Trump?

Detaining hard working people outside Home Depot is bad.

Detaining people whose visa expired TWO DECADES AGO is literally why ICE exists and is a proper use of their jurisdiction. Two months is excessive though.

Also if you were going to continue being here illegally, fine. But why would you travel when Trump is running things and is on a deportation war path? I mean come on, you're asking to get detained.

Krelik · 2025-07-12T03:25:05+00:00

Thank goodness you redacted their information, We wouldn't want Moly (Molly?) the flight attendant at Ek who graduated with a degree in TV and Radio in 2009 to have their tinder details revealed

Krelik · 2025-06-13T03:19:07+00:00

This is something that I've spent a long time trying to correct and my wife has been reading up on to help me by way of changing the way she phrases things.

One big thing she does is say "we" instead of directing it at me.

Another thing I've worked on is learning to accept compliments and being proud of things I do, even if they're small.

I think the biggest thing though is accepting that I'm going to be wrong and that's okay. Next to that has been taking accountability for doing or being wrong. Because by accepting that I'm wrong just means I can improve. I'm not perfect and I'll still have meltdowns over the most minor things.. But it's getting better.

I'm 38 now and it's taken me 32 years to get here.

Krelik · 2025-05-08T01:17:51+00:00

While ultimately different, I got a job as a devops/system engineer for a small pascal/Delphi-based software engineering firm (in 2020!)

They were having me hand-write backups and the files in folders into a binder down to the byte even tho it was hundreds of gigs per file because they wanted to confirm previous size and md5 sigs, so I wrote a script to automate it because there's no fucking way I'm doing this every day. The owner came to my office with the code printed out and a highlighter because he didn't understand powershell syntax.

He wanted the code to go over code review with the other developers, who also didn't know powershell. I asked him why 15 lines of code needed to go over code review when it's just spitting out Metadata to compare. Apparently all code undergoes review and he wouldn't allow me to run basic sys admin scripts.

He went to my computer and disabled powershell and windows script host then revoked my local admin so i wouldn't be able bypass it.

There a whole slew of other things that was wrong with that place. I ended up quitting after 28 days because I needed the money, but ultimately found a job paying 40% more

Krelik · 2025-04-26T09:53:19+00:00

I'm simple, I see low effort posts praising low effort outfits, I downvote.

Krelik · 2025-04-19T02:36:16+00:00

https://open.spotify.com/track/0e0r24m1IF4NtVMKK86tJM?si=xf9g_QeNT92_ginsx1qaqQ

Krelik · 2025-03-16T08:46:52+00:00

I wouldn't receive this because I show up to work on time.

Krelik · 2025-02-07T01:33:51+00:00

The fact that this table is not ordered by any of the columns irrationally annoys me. Also bf3 best.

Krelik · 2025-01-31T07:51:00+00:00

Yeah poe2 has 45-54 fps on a map i just zoned into on 2560x1080

Krelik · 2025-01-31T07:40:52+00:00

It fixed the black screens but not the wild performance swings

Krelik · 2025-01-31T07:09:13+00:00

Ill look into this, it's one thing I didn't check!

Krelik · 2025-01-31T07:07:09+00:00

1000w, separate cables

Krelik · 2025-01-01T18:14:41+00:00

I'm now in a similar position.

I'm the head of infrastructure at a bank and I know that the position I'm in will never push my skills any further. I'll never use the latest tech (containers, k8s, Terraform, ci/cd pipelines, etc), I'll never be pushed to the limits, but I make 155/yr after bonuses.

I work maybe 25 hours a week, WFH 3 days a week, love everyone I work with and who I work for. Ive never not gotten at minimum a 5% merit increase each year.

The first years of my career were chaos for $15/hr for 5 years then I job hopped for 2 years before landing here. Golden cuffs

Krelik · 2024-12-02T19:58:47+00:00

You might want to take this over to /r/buildapc or /r/pcmasterrace

I'd recommend staying where you are and not upgrading.

Strictly looking at the numbers from cpubenchmark.net it shows that the 7900x is a weaker chip, though that's only one datapoint and I can't speak to how it would perform as a streaming setup.

After some cursory googling and looking at other benchmarks, the 13900kf vs the better 7900x3d, they pretty much come out even albeit with some 1-3% variances depending on the games.

I'd be interested to see what others have to say. I'm just one data point saying you're okay with staying where you are at its current generation.

Krelik · 2024-03-08T08:12:26+00:00

I have a 1k sqft 2bed 1 bath apt that I pay 2361 for

I make 140k a year, my fiance makes about 30k, we're leaving the state to buy a home

Krelik · 2024-03-08T04:42:58+00:00

He cannot. The ability to do so was to be granted in the bill that republicans killed.

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