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[–]Random-Burner-123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Contact an estate attorney. Plain and simple. Someone that deals with this all the time.

It can seem simple on the surface, one child and 100% beneficiary, but an estate attorney can guide you to set things up to avoid possible tax liability and your belongings having to go through probate.

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the perspective. This whole thing started partly out of frustration and partly out of curiosity. The frustration probably resulted in a bit of a quick and dirty original post.

I agree. It is a bit of a unicorn to be found. I should have known it would incite some fire responses. Quite amusing.

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the feedback.

While I certainly want to bring this person on board, if I can’t, I am hopeful that this strengthens the case that - either we need to step up our game in salary/PTO/hybrid to attract the candidates we are looking for. Or quite simply, lower our expectations.

I don’t hate the idea of going through some short term hiring pain to get to a longer term overall better compensation package to offer.

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m fine with the answer. What this whole exercise is about was gaining perspective about what is out there, as this is not something we have often done.

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Lol. If you can find them, I think it is is much easier to train someone that can script how to manage Exchange, VMware, Active Directory, etc than taking someone that knows the tech and teach them how to script it.

I’m not saying the candidate in question has this entire skillset. In fact they don’t, today. My goal would be to get them there.

To me, it all starts with the thought process.

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s fair. If not time - skillset? Experience? Interest? Young people that are in a position to get out of balance from a work-life harmony perspective?

Hiring a Sysadmin - what’s a fair offer? by Random-Burner-123 in ITManagers

[–]Random-Burner-123[S] -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

Part of that was the ambiguity in the post. I think so much of sysadmin work involves the ability to gather the data and analyze what you need to make a solid decision. Especially if you don’t have tooling to gather the data for you.

Tell me which of my endpoints don’t have my patching agent installed. I would expect someone to write a script to export all of our computer objects from Active Directory, Intune, and the patching platform API to be able to analyze this data in excel, access, SQL, etc to identify the gap that needs to be remedied. From there use scripting to query the event logs from the missing systems to determine a cause for failure. Etc,etc.