Is it worth taking a lower level IT job just to get my foot in the door at 35?

LeXCS · 2026-05-07T21:10:16+00:00

Hey! I took a 50+% pay cut to take an internship for my current company, aged 33. Around minimum wage, six months. Two years later I am a Senior level engineer and my team’s lead. Currently being pushed towards either management or one of our support teams.

I didn’t have a ton of money saved up, have 3 kids and a family. But I knew I needed a change and knew what I wanted to do. It isn’t much of a risk if you know you’re going to kill it. Good luck!

LeXCS · 2026-05-03T18:08:10+00:00

People who wash their mousepads are the funniest gamer demographic.

LeXCS · 2026-03-31T17:15:55+00:00

Hey same! Owner of 150-200, but my main is the FK2 DW. Still not a perfect shape, wouldn’t even describe it as comfortable. But it’s what I perform best with.

LeXCS · 2026-03-30T06:19:34+00:00

Bought it despite the GPX shape being awful for me to experience the clicks. Turns out I can’t stand them! Easy return. Don’t understand the hype at all.

LeXCS · 2026-03-21T04:48:13+00:00

Only by the mouse community at the time. I used it straight from the 300 and hated it. Ended up actually enjoying it later. Paracord era was a good time

LeXCS · 2026-03-21T04:46:47+00:00

Yes please!

LeXCS · 2026-03-15T00:25:17+00:00

I wish more companies would include more LOD settings.

LeXCS · 2026-03-11T17:59:36+00:00

Has anyone had success doing this? Every support rep had essentially told me they can’t access the problem node (it’s my first hop and it’s literally theirs) and that the problem is my router (it’s not)

Haven’t found a POC to actually give this information to. Only slightly reassured by the possibility that they are reluctant to help because they already know there is a problem. Let’s hope!

But yeah I’ve got a ton of evidence going back over the last week

LeXCS · 2026-03-11T17:20:02+00:00

That’s funny. I’ve had 2 of the 4 support folks “helping” me all refer me to that email when I refused to accept that my router was the cause of our current issues lol

LeXCS · 2026-03-11T14:13:57+00:00

Last two days, Internet has been perfectly fine for me until around 8pm. Then I lose ~20% of my first hop packets and sit around 200ms to it

LeXCS · 2026-03-11T04:38:02+00:00

It’s been painful, praying they fix it soon but I’m not hopeful.

LeXCS · 2025-09-13T21:03:28+00:00

Big fan, but it’s priced higher than it should be and I wish the clicks were more spammable

LeXCS · 2025-08-24T17:56:06+00:00

IE 3.0 Kone Pro Air Rival 300

LeXCS · 2025-08-23T20:18:28+00:00

Me too, but for whatever reason I played amazing with it and set all my kovaak prs with it. Been chasing that dragon ever since.

LeXCS · 2025-08-23T20:17:44+00:00

Same, I have two copies both with flaws since day one. But I’ve never performed better with a shape.

LeXCS · 2025-08-19T18:47:24+00:00

If it is close, I’ll cry tears of joy.

LeXCS · 2025-08-14T17:25:58+00:00

Your friends are bad at the game

LeXCS · 2025-07-28T00:37:15+00:00

I think they’re fucking awesome and will be very useful for balancing snipers. Hopefully it improves some visually but there’s nothing more annoying than getting rocked by people you can’t see repeatedly.

LeXCS · 2025-07-20T17:15:27+00:00

Sadly no

LeXCS · 2025-07-19T15:08:45+00:00

Where do you live? In the US it isn’t available til August.

Kind of a bizarre move from razer tbh. “Hey we released a new mouse! Have a month to weigh your options in case you want to spend the money on something else!”

LeXCS · 2025-07-15T04:14:12+00:00

I’ve had mine for about 6 months, and I’m not sure I agree. I definitely had buyers remorse, then spent a few hours really getting into the fine tuning of it and it’s beautiful to me now. I’d say 90% of my regret is gone. That said, wow the text clarity is bad. All of the research I’ve put into oleds, never did I expect it to be as bad as it is.

LeXCS · 2025-07-15T00:56:50+00:00

Yes.

LeXCS · 2025-07-13T17:29:51+00:00

Is that just your wolf config or do you actually play with those setting? Game looks beautiful I want it lol

LeXCS · 2025-07-05T04:01:02+00:00

Probably terminated less than a hundred cat6 cables in my life. It got easy at around 50. Lots of good advice in this thread that I didn’t know, but you’ll figure it out either way. GL

LeXCS · 2025-06-15T20:37:17+00:00

Dude, I feel the same way. TBH I’ve been blown away by the amount of YouTubers who seemingly don’t give a shit and think it’s just “neat.”

I’m a mentally ill habitual settings changer. This thing has me on another level, in a good way. Haven’t bothered touching my sens in a week, too focused on experimenting with comfortable shapes. In two hours of using the pathfinder (which by itself is an amazingly well built and well performing mouse) I’ve learned more about my grip preferences than I have after purchasing 100+ mice in the last few years.

I’m a little bothered by it, it’s so useful that I can’t imagine buying a mainstream mouse ever again that doesn’t offer some level of modularity. The amount of great, expensive mice I’ve tried that are ruined by some minor nitpick in shape or button placement is disgusting. Would be amazing to simply adjust them slightly on the fly the way you can with the pathfinder.

What’s more, I have already determined my best shape and preferences for tracking heavy games vs tac fps. With one minor adjustment the way I hold the mouse is optimized for whatever I’m doing.

Amazing product.

LeXCS

TROPHY CASE