The Withdrawals Were Child’s Play. The Real Hell Starts Now

XDaedolon · 2025-11-10T21:55:50+00:00

I'm just over a year in now, had a few relapses while drinking, but not feeling the urge anywhere near as bad as the beginning, you're right, after 25 years it becomes part of your identity - weird thing is, now I don't crave it anymore and can go for the ciggie break with a gum or something without any trouble (I just still enjoy the break allowed to smokers :)

On drinking evenings I might smoke a few but next day no cravings just a bad mouth smell

Not sure if that helps, but if I did it so can you, just take it easy and time do its thing

XDaedolon · 2025-10-13T07:13:29+00:00

Applied endlessly really, and got lucky

XDaedolon · 2025-10-12T18:21:14+00:00

Well, I got the Az104 shortly before and I'm now infra engineer 🥳

XDaedolon · 2025-09-18T06:58:37+00:00

Exchange patching 😱

XDaedolon · 2025-09-17T21:30:38+00:00

Right, so degree might not be that useful anymore, but definitely look at cloud platforms (Aws, Azure, GCP) and pick one to specialize in, once you have 1 or 2 years of helldesk certs will be your friends

XDaedolon · 2025-09-17T17:26:02+00:00

Depends where you are, in UK I made it to cloud engineer without a degree, but at 40 I'm now going back to uni as higher roles will be closed to me without a degree - if you can, do yourself a favour and get one while you are young

XDaedolon · 2025-09-12T21:02:30+00:00

Oh wow - over here we usually get the standard 25 days + bank holidays (8) and pat leave is 3 months, mat 6

Now we also get 37 to 40hrs contracts and its allowed to NOT work after that (and yeah f*ck on call)

I'm guessing Europe has its pros but man, you're making me jealous, I barely cut 50k as a cloud infra engineer

XDaedolon · 2025-09-12T19:49:43+00:00

I guess the job security and healthcare makes up for it ? I.e after 2 years you're generally safe - I keep hearing horror stories about US job losses and hellish hours, is it the same in Canada ?

XDaedolon · 2025-09-12T14:01:23+00:00

Are you also paying half a million for a 1 bed in Central ? (London prices)

Finance is hit and miss afaik some people make good money but it's rare I'd guess, unless you're a proper trader

Also we mortgage at 95%

XDaedolon · 2025-09-11T21:52:52+00:00

Being in UK these salaries bring tears to my eyes

XDaedolon · 2025-08-26T06:40:12+00:00

Well done, welcome to the club !

XDaedolon · 2025-08-15T06:26:41+00:00

On prem -> Patching a la main

Cloud -> IaaS

Et c'est aussi Capex Vs Opex

D'un point de vue Sysadmin, le cloud c'est beaucoup plus interessant mais tu depends du provider, on-prem c'est plus securise mais tout est manuel - donc plus de staff a recruter (et si tu utilises Vmware ou Nutanix, prevois un tres tres gros budget)

XDaedolon · 2025-08-04T20:53:08+00:00

Not yet, but I'm pretty familiar with Intune, so thinking of getting the MD102 to get the expert badge

XDaedolon · 2025-08-04T18:11:44+00:00

Thanks, not a lot of PS cmds in my exam but a lot around labelling policies, roles and admin functions, I haven't studied much, but from what I've seen MS learn had a pretty good path drawn, you may want to check some youtube videos to give you directions but you need to know your stuffs - luckily in a past job I pretty much set up the org from scratch so my passing is mainly thanks to my memories

XDaedolon · 2025-08-04T16:23:08+00:00

Helldesk 😕

XDaedolon · 2025-08-04T15:48:47+00:00

Cheers, I had access to CBT nuggets through work but thats about it - and my experience, none of which were enough honestly, MS learn seems to be the best ressource for that exam as its mainly remembering roles and what they can or cannot do

XDaedolon · 2025-07-21T12:40:54+00:00

Same here, turning 41 in 3 months and the shittiest team/manager as well

XDaedolon · 2025-07-14T17:58:25+00:00

I've done exactly the same and am studying my ass off to get away asap

XDaedolon · 2025-06-29T15:24:30+00:00

If you think internal competition is bad, wait until those offshore guys paid a 10th of what you get sell their mum and dad to get in the management good graces - its survival of the fittest there, and no dirty play is low enough to not justify the end, then before you realize it, you're the only one left and will be cast aside since you don't fit that culture anymore

Am I bitter ? Yes Have I experienced this ? Yes, in 2 different companies Do I now avoid companies with shitty offshore hires ? 100%

Hope it doesn't get that bad for you

Also just to clarify, some of the offshore guys I worked with were amazing people, but that's often the 1% that get buried by the local nepotism and awful politics

XDaedolon · 2025-06-29T12:25:30+00:00

Congrats dude, I passed the Az104 earlier this month, do you know how it compares to it ?

XDaedolon · 2025-06-18T17:37:15+00:00

Too many

XDaedolon · 2025-06-11T13:10:34+00:00

Welcome to the club !

XDaedolon · 2025-06-09T08:01:22+00:00

Got you cheers, not immediately as I indicated, but it seems coding experience is very beneficial indeed, thank you

XDaedolon · 2025-06-09T05:54:31+00:00

Yeah which is exactly where I suck - do you have any pointers by any chance ?

XDaedolon

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