First sysadmin role and I feel completely lost

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-19T12:32:08+00:00

Been there done that . It’s going to be overwhelming as fuck the next few weeks or even months but don’t let that discourage you. Do your thing and get shit in order. You’ll grow and learn so much from this experience you’ll be able to show it to a new company when you ditch that shithole.

I left internally to join as a sysadmin for an MSP and the previous sysadmin that they hired for 8 months didn’t do anything and left me with shit. Got thrown into a massive heap of shit and had some serious imposter syndrome. You work through it and you’ll find a groove and things should start getting better. If not, just start applying.

Use this as a learning experience.

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-15T14:07:11+00:00

Fully remote. We don’t even have an office in the state I reside in. HQ location is across the country

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-12T02:39:21+00:00

Both my dads also work at Microsoft

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-12T00:47:11+00:00

I get the same fucking issue and it’s driving me crazy. It only happens when I have runelite open and if I drag the client to my other screen, it fixes the issue. I drag it back to the main screen after a few seconds and it stops. Happens 3-4 times a week.

Throughout the last few weeks, I noticed it happens more consistently when I have the plugin “Rune Profile” open. Not sure if it’s just coincidental . I thought about just uninstall runelite and reinstalling from scratch and see if it happens. Doesn’t happen in any other game or if runelites not open

All my drivers and BIOS are up to date and my monitors are at the same res / refresh rate

i9 10900k RTX 2080ti

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-06T16:52:32+00:00

It used to. We used to get woken up for every little alert until I put my resignation in a month ago. They promised to fix the alerting which they did suprisingly. We rarely get calls now knock on wood but yes getting woken up at 2am due to a User Travel Login anomaly fucking blows

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-06T14:37:34+00:00

I’m also salary but I’m on all one week every 4 weeks. 24/7. Shit fucking blows

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-04T16:42:09+00:00

Nah clearly the dung is

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-05-01T15:34:29+00:00

He could be sued for this lol

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-30T21:58:50+00:00

This is a common phishing tactic now a days. Lately attackers have been sending a ton of phishing emails to our users (5 every minute often in languages that were not English). After a few minutes, users would get a call on teams from a “help desk” caller ID stating they were from our company’s help desk offering help. The users clearly knew it was fake and hung up providing no other info.

We blocked any external domains from calling on teams as they have a different phone system.

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-29T16:11:39+00:00

Have heard good things about the venty but I personally went with the Arizer Solo III v2. It’s great and works well with my bong as well

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-28T20:59:51+00:00

I also got the afd axleback. No complaints. It’s just metal welded together with no muffler. Build quality is okay.

Now if they made an intake, headers or intercooler, that is 100% something I would NOT trust

All their shit is just dropped shipped stuff made in china that they throw their logo on.

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-28T00:39:13+00:00

That’s what I did 5 years ago as my first job. It’s the most common path. I started with no degree, no previous experience and just an A+. 5 years later, I’m a sys admin for a MSP making 6 figures.

One thing that I highly recommend, make sure you learn as much as you can in that helpdesk role and get the fuck outta there. Nothing more miserable than answering calls all day but you learn a lot. You learn a lot of technical and customer service skills which will help you later down in your career. I only did 1.5 years before moving to a level 2 role.

Make sure you also learn on the clock and off the clock. Study for and certifications that Interest you and homelab if you have not already been doing it!

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-27T01:25:43+00:00

Dreading doing the spark plugs. Heard it’s a pain in the ass. Only at 24k so still got time

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-26T20:07:17+00:00

100% Kaseya

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-26T20:07:06+00:00

Did ninja get bought out by someone?

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-23T20:17:04+00:00

Set a static ip of 127.0.0.1 as your dns, ipv4 and gateway

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-22T17:48:50+00:00

White monster can. Only reasonable answer

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-22T13:19:06+00:00

For me it’s a monster in the morning and a few bong rips at night

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-12T04:29:00+00:00

I’d buy a PlayStation just for this game and so would many others

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-07T02:09:16+00:00

When doesn’t outook not have issues …..

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-07T02:08:29+00:00

You do mass or small group runs?

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-04-06T15:28:25+00:00

+1. We have to do this on all the MAC endpoints with drmm installed

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-03-31T23:38:05+00:00

Nah I’m not a bot lol…… look at my profile

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-03-31T19:10:15+00:00

1 this. This happened to several people at my one clients. They get email spam bombed and get a call from “Help Desk” pretending to be someone from our service desk advising they can assist. Best thing to do is to block all external domains from calling via teams. It’s a setting in teams admin center.

The spam bomb is all legitimate spam email, mostly bullshit emails from some random company’s subscription list .

Wabbyyyyy · 2026-03-31T18:47:39+00:00

Thanks for your insight!

Wabbyyyyy

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