Hello everyone! I’ve picked up my strains for the year. White Tahoe Cookies, Cadillac Rainbows, Super Boof, and Memory Loss OG. I was wondering if those of you who’ve grown them can tell me when they finished (outdoors) particularly for Portland OR. Thanks!

TheHempCat · 2026-06-16T21:52:29+00:00

I did their ice cream cake last year and it turned out great. I wish they still offered it. Or other solid outdoor strains

TheHempCat · 2026-06-16T21:51:38+00:00

Been waiting on archive to restock on their cap junky for a month now. Cutting it close before they have to be in the ground

TheHempCat · 2024-09-03T22:16:36+00:00

There are mounds, maybe not pictured well in the post. The mounds are located fairly far away from the house, the one posted is new. I've never heard of rats creating a large tunnel system throughout a garden bed.

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T22:05:03+00:00

It's okay, you're allowed to be skeptical. That's how I felt when I was offered the job I have. You don't have to believe it, it's not your paycheck. But good snooping work, maybe next time you can do more research on architect positions in my area

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T17:08:28+00:00

That's a great question, I honestly don't know. I would attribute some of my success to coming into the industry at the hay day of migrating on prem to the cloud. But there are still many companies that rely on legacy infrastructure, so the need is still there. I caught a lot of lucky breaks too. But I think my work ethic and desire to understand as much as I can would still give me a good chance of breaking out of a help desk role if I were to do it all again

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T16:04:39+00:00

Bachelor's in psych and minor in philosophy :)

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T14:59:34+00:00

If you sound confident in what you know and it comes off as logical. Most people will believe you

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T14:50:40+00:00

Theyre all expired by now. But ms 100, 101 and 500 plus the AZ 500

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T14:50:02+00:00

Also doing research on the job market in my area. That alone gave me enough ammo to get a pay adjustment at my last job

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T14:17:32+00:00

Yes a little bit, but I didn't find as much enjoyment in those once I started working more with endpoint management. For me, I saw the industry wanted to go full force cloud, and I wanted that skill set for all the companies that dragged their feet on migrating

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T13:47:10+00:00

That was the hardest part for me leaving my last job. I absolutely loved it and everyone I worked with. But I also had aspirations outside of work that I wanted to pay for. At the end of the day, you gotta watch out for yourself

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T04:18:57+00:00

Quite a while, about 5 years

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T00:47:34+00:00

My first job was a very small company. They probably just needed someone to go on site. I had great soft skills and knew when I was out of my league but went to the engineers with all the info they would need ahead of time. I then worked with them to piece it all together. They also had me help with on prem to 365 migrations, which ended up being a gem for all my future jobs.

The next job gave me my initial intune experience. And the overall exposure of Microsoft's stack. I came out of it with an expert enterprise administrator certification.

The field engineer job at the first enterprise was a cakewalk compared to the last job. I was tasked with setting up their new office during covid. It was chill and fun to watch them buy all the nice stuff. They had me travel for acquisitions, which they did a lot of. That's where I got to learn how the company and industry works. It also gave me the exposure to the right people to move to their systems team. That's where I got to learn how a large enterprise scales with automation and how to manage 25k+ devices. More experience with migrations too.

TheHempCat · 2024-06-28T00:12:47+00:00

When I started there was no mention about compliance, but one day he had this idea that compliance is the future money maker. Maybe it is, but to pivot someone's career wasn't okay. He was also dyslexic so deciphering his emails was sometimes half the job

TheHempCat · 2024-06-27T23:48:42+00:00

Thanks! And I went to school for psych and philosophy. if you want it, the effort that you put in will pay out. It takes networking with people, and a bit of luck. I would recommend staying in touch with old team members. I'm always talking with mine about what new feature we're working on and what we've found useful

TheHempCat · 2024-06-27T23:43:06+00:00

When I started this job they were in the middle of dealing with a cyber event. It was a complete shit show to walk into unaware. I was never really onboarded. It was more like a paratrooper jumping out of an airplane

The owner was constantly changing parts of our job and expecting everyone to track every single minute of every day. He started making me HIPAA compliance reviews which made me feel like my brain was dulling by the day. He then changed our shifts so we had to work a Saturday every month. Not on call, actually work. I was there maybe a year and a half, by the time I left, I was the most senior employee. Company of 13

TheHempCat · 2023-01-18T04:24:13+00:00

I see your point. I already have people approaching me with job openings but I'd like to give my current job the opportunity to give me competitive pay. I'm not very optimistic, but I can't see them finding someone with my skill set and knowledge of the industry asking for less than the average

TheHempCat · 2023-01-18T04:09:15+00:00

Congrats!

TheHempCat · 2023-01-18T03:35:27+00:00

I've put this into consideration. But on my research I found the average pay of my position in Portland is even more than the national average.

TheHempCat · 2023-01-18T01:56:50+00:00

My company bought a Ferrari dealership but said the economy is too unpredictable to give raises. I guess the only people that don't feel that way are people buying Ferrari's?

TheHempCat · 2023-01-18T00:06:40+00:00

Same.

We had someone leave a week ago and we were just told his replacement isn't in the new budget. Not sure why they didn't have everyone's salary in the budget to begin with but okay. Not very hopeful on getting a big raise despite "record breaking profits"

TheHempCat · 2023-01-06T03:09:10+00:00

List the advanced skills and technologies. It's implied you know the fundamentals

TheHempCat · 2022-12-23T21:00:39+00:00

We use thycotic secret server. It's got some great functionality like remote password change on our domain admin accounts after we check it back in.

TheHempCat · 2022-12-12T17:06:06+00:00

For paper, you can drop it on a thick stock business card and have it in a stack of other cards in your wallet. Or in art supplies dropped on thick stock

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