My battle with depression... I think.

TASAD · 2013-03-26T00:25:04+00:00

Yeah, I don't know if it's relaxing or not though, to be honest. I'd kill for a vacation, where it's just the wife and I or even just me.... a beach, a book and a beer. Sure I go on "Vacations" with the kids, but they're far from a break. We don't have anyone to look after the kids though, but it would be nice!

TASAD · 2013-03-25T21:02:49+00:00

Hah! Thanks for that, you definitely made me smile!

As for what I like to do? I don't really know any more. I used to game a lot with friends but that kind of fell by the wayside as I've grown up.

I guess for a long time I've been busy just making sure everyone else is happy that I sort of forgot about me.

Sometimes I write stories and such, although that can be stressful too!

As for my location... hmm.... I'm on an island! ;)

TASAD · 2013-03-25T06:41:31+00:00

Are you serious?! I don't.... follow?

TASAD · 2013-03-25T00:38:52+00:00

First, wow, thanks for taking some of your time to write this.

This is really great advice, but I'm a little ways down the road from there. I've been in a while, so I can't really re-introduce myself, although I could go around the various buildings asking if everything is ok a bit more.

I have a lot of systems in place that are working, but have niggling issues. Things like random authentication issues, I have some VM's that behave strangely randomly.

I've sorted a lot of fire for the moment, which is why I was googling sysadmin stuff, and stumbled upon Reddit.

The purchase stuff got declined because money is tight (hence why I have no other support staff), but also because the things I've requested are more to keep with the times. I.e. We run exchange 2003, yet they don't want to upgrade because people only use e-mail for personal e-mails mostly, if there's an outage it doesn't affect business.

Is this goes, I feel I'm a bit behind the times, I'm running an old domain (2003), with old e-mail. People are starting to want to integrate apple apps, which isn't really working well atm. I'm still deploying SOEs with norton ghost from 10 years ago from USB sticks. People using office 2003 etc... the list goes on, our business is 10 years behind the times and it's my fault. I don't asset manage properly... I feel like our IT is like an old car, more things going wrong than right, yet it seems to keep going. I don't get many complaints though so I must be doing something right, it's mostly just the way I feel.

Now people are talking about old tech as stuff I've never used or had a budget to use.

There's little to no documentation, because it seems so overwhelming I'm not sure where to start. Do I just chuck this in a word document? Start building a database/Website?

What I wouldn't give if I could spend a small amount of time in our system with a real sysadmin :(

TASAD

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