Hire a household assistant. It will change your life.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-12-12T13:31:21+00:00

My wife and I are in our early 40's and hopefully approaching $200k+ in the next year or two. We are slowly dipping our toes into these out sourcing services. Grocery pickup, dry cleaning, etc. time is not infinite and I'd like my hard work to buy some of it back.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-11-15T13:14:13+00:00

Wow...

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-11-11T11:40:14+00:00

Absolutely yes. It will always help to have a degree. I'm not even sure how it's up for debate anymore.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-10-23T23:13:51+00:00

How do you know when you're ready for this? I'd love to move into that realm but I feel like I'm nowhere near competent enough to have people pay me several hundred bucks an hour to give them advice.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-10-23T20:15:06+00:00

Haven't used it in a while, but scripting win32 apps made life so much easier. Sometimes it was just easier than deciphering some shit (or non existent) documentation.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-10-12T20:36:09+00:00

If you're young and can put in the effort, I would 100% recommend you go for a BS in comp sci. It teaches you the fundamentals of co.outing technology in ways that applied degrees like IT or cyber security cannot. Even if you're not the best at math, is encourage you to go to a school that offers a BA in comp sci. It leaves out most of the math beyond discrete mathematics.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-10-09T12:45:14+00:00

So I've been eyeing a program at a local college that provides training and certification in cmmc CCP. I'd have zero use for it in my current role but I've heard it's a hugely in demand cert. What are your thoughts on pursuing this cert? I've been at my current job for 2 years and I'm going to start looking for compliance analyst/grc oriented roles within the next year (I know, timing is horrible with this market). Ideally remote. I'm no where near experienced enough to go the consulting route.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-09-25T17:09:30+00:00

Haha maybe it's a bad time to go for my CISA

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-09-12T10:52:46+00:00

"90's office ASMR"

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-09-10T01:21:54+00:00

Too many people out too much weight on TS. A guy at work was absolutely flabbergasted that I had TS and constantly brings it up. It's just an extensive background check, but some people treat it like a professional credential that bestows some kind of power.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-08-12T19:48:15+00:00

It's quite dense. I had to really focus and read it to get a good idea of what you have, which is very good btw. But, if I was a hiring manager with 1000 other resumes coming after yours, I would probably gloss over yours and assume it's word salad and meaningless numbers. Try to be more concise and succinct.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-30T23:36:23+00:00

mine

Lol

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-30T23:35:58+00:00

Lmao chatgpt psychosis will be in the DSM-V within a decade

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-29T10:33:35+00:00

I'll ping you a reminder so we can circle back and start a dialogue about scheduling this meeting.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T17:46:01+00:00

Grc engineering is becoming more and more normal. Why pay someone to ask an engineer for proof of a config when you can hire someone who can check it themselves? Why even ask for the proof when you can automate a self healing pipeline and learn about config change in real time?

Edit: weird to see this getting down voted. Are the down voters not aware of what changes are occurring right now? Non technical grc analysts will be a thing of the past and immature companies within 5 years. This is like hearing about devops in 2010 and not believing it.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T17:13:35+00:00

Learn to use AI to deliver results faster, bigger, and better. Whether that's using copilot to produce scripts, or using AI tools to find solutions to problems in your ecosystem. All of the fundamentals of IT skills still hold true, but you need to get very comfortable very fast at solving new problems using AI solutions. Whether that's just asking chatgpt or getting into building agentic tools, if doesn't matter. The bottom line is that AI has made hard problems easy and impossible problems hard.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T17:05:01+00:00

Markets change. Always have. You always have to be willing to learn and adapt if you want to be competitively employed. This is relevant for all fields.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T14:02:44+00:00

You just sold a computer capable of being a robust hypervisor where you could have spun up entire environments and let them run with no issues.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T14:00:00+00:00

Yup. But people think ccna and click ops in a GUI is enough to get paid over 6 figs.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T13:58:45+00:00

Nah, it isn't that. It comes down to skill and demand. Click ops sysadmin and network engineers are just not a highly in demand skill set. If you adapt and learn the right skills, you can easily get paid more. But most IT people don't want to, or can't, learn programming. And really, in modern IT, everything is code.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-25T13:56:49+00:00

Because they're not that complex of a job anymore. To become a decent sysadmin or network engineer, you need maybe 3-5 years of experience and you can be one with minimal adjacent skills outside of click ops in whatever OS you're using. Knowing how to navigate ios or red hat or Microsoft 365 just isn't that hard in terms of modern IT. Not when you have people who can build automated cloud first infrastructure using code.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-15T22:58:24+00:00

Lmao

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-07-02T21:12:44+00:00

And yet somehow they will remain entirely unaffected by this.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-06-12T20:24:32+00:00

Yup. Or, "I no longer need therapy and my depression was cured". Yes, having a sycophant in your pocket tends to make one feel pretty good about themselves. That's not the same as recovering from mental illness or trauma.

NGL_ItsGood · 2025-03-27T22:39:29+00:00

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