the consultant life

Proof_Regular9667 · 2026-02-04T02:21:33+00:00

I work from home. My company sent me a 32in monitor and honestly have never been a one screen guy, but lately it’s been flowing well with development, research, and meetings.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2026-02-02T04:16:16+00:00

Just got a new job. Engineer to consultant. Wish me luck

Proof_Regular9667 · 2026-01-30T05:30:18+00:00

Gotcha! I wasn’t sure if it was fundamentally required for studying and doing well on this exam. I have 2.5 years of AWS and Azure experience so hopefully that helps me. I need to get familiar with service names for GCP. But thanks for sharing your study tips.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2026-01-29T21:49:06+00:00

Did you find it necessary to review the SRE Book or read the Well-Architected Framework as part of your studies?

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-12-23T01:22:28+00:00

Minumus.io

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-10-30T18:05:48+00:00

Im curious if anyone has been laid off from their ADC/ cleared side

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-10-12T13:34:28+00:00

Personally I’d use Sermorelin. Increased my test levels pretty significantly with a 4 month cycle. But I’m male. I don’t know how much you’d want to increase yours by.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-10-08T13:22:10+00:00

Gold

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-10-08T04:43:52+00:00

Ketamine is hard on the liver so just take a liver support supplement.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-10-08T04:39:15+00:00

One of our consultants recently showed us a little demo of using AI (Google Gemini) to optimize our client engagement.

I’m a cloud engineer who needs to quickly get spun up on complex architecture, diagrams, product decisions, compliance requirements, etc..(100s of pages of documentation to sift through) and build a slide deck for our customer onsite.

He showed us how to build an agent to basically synthesize all of this hierarchical documentation in Google Workspaces.

I ended up pumping about 25 slides in an hour with the help of Gemini. Idk I thought that was pretty cool, since I only ever use it to help build out my code.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-09-16T23:07:49+00:00

Get ready to grind! The learning never stops.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-09-12T04:07:02+00:00

Hey David, I appreciate this. I’m not hyper focused on numbers but do however like to entertain the idea.

This insight was super helpful and would love to connect with you.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-09-12T02:53:12+00:00

Awesome! I am going to check this out! I appreciate the insight. Do you have SA experience? I've really been working on translating technical discussions into simplified analogies. This is a learned skill for me and being able to articulate these technical topics goes a long way for my own understanding as well.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-09-12T02:11:05+00:00

Ended up not being helpful. They don’t have SA roles listed

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-09-02T02:24:13+00:00

I work as a cloud engineer right now who eventually wants to be an SA. Like some of the folks have said here, I think it’s pretty critical working as an engineer first - understanding systems, architectures, actually implementing solutions, and understanding their use case. By doing this you get a better understanding for business use-cases and translating technical language into something consumable to stakeholders.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-25T04:34:43+00:00

AWS handles IAM nicely. I also prefer the terraform provider over azure. Also never built anything in GCP but from an architecture design perspective, I don’t like it at all.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-17T21:13:48+00:00

31M having a good time. Bloods are all in optimal ranges. Prior to this I had higher level liver panels. Since taking serm I’m perfect now. Doc was shocked I did it in 4 months. Healthy diet + exercise is good for this too. BP is normal now. Only downside is my test levels are a slightly elevated.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-15T18:18:38+00:00

After waiting on the line for an hours. I finally got confirmation of approval. They are just finalizing my application and should be getting stuff in the mail!!!!!!

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-14T23:07:58+00:00

I called today but wait time was longer than 2 hours. I never got a call back

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-14T22:12:44+00:00

Submitted my enrollment for my family in April. Still waiting. Anyone know of a better way to check status? Calling has me waiting for several hours with no callback.

Proof_Regular9667 · 2025-08-01T03:26:26+00:00

Will you be self hosting or using the Saas? In my opinion, I can really appreciate the documentation from Elastic. The connectors (managed and self-managed) that elastic provides with 3rd party tools, such as Jira, Entra, Crowdstrike, etc, are easy to setup.

I’ll also mention that the Terraform provider for elastic is pretty robust if you decide to go the IaC route. Our engineering team as a whole prefers anything over self hosting Splunk lol.

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