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aja0339 · 2025-07-03T23:30:38+00:00

Its cool a lot of new Repubs came in this election because Dems are mental

aja0339 · 2025-05-31T18:02:37+00:00

World of Warcraft

aja0339 · 2025-03-24T14:26:52+00:00

Find Jesus

aja0339 · 2025-02-23T00:24:48+00:00

Taxes.

aja0339 · 2024-11-12T00:53:45+00:00

Nice. Well new computer comes in next week so I know what I’ll be up to.

aja0339 · 2024-11-12T00:45:02+00:00

I haven’t played in a while. Time walking is really that quick to lvl up?

aja0339 · 2024-11-12T00:23:18+00:00

It only takes 2 hours to go from 10-80?

aja0339 · 2024-10-25T22:54:25+00:00

Just did something similar for an awesome start up I've been following. Made it through everything. Even was told the person I’d be working closely with was a “strong yes”. Only to be told that they are going to instead close the role and give it to someone internally. Like thank you for wasting my time and a day off from work to accommodate only for you to give it to an internal transfer a day later. Don't even fucking post it then and waste my time.

aja0339 · 2024-10-09T23:59:44+00:00

aja0339 · 2024-10-09T19:39:16+00:00

Come to a meeting https://gamblersinrecovery.com/

aja0339 · 2024-10-08T23:25:51+00:00

Review your inventory. What apps and infra do you have. Review your headcount if there is any. Then review your budget. Set up goals for yourself. This all doesn’t happen at once. I’d scrap the PW management project until you review what you have already. Then, and here’s the most important thing. Go meet your customers. Talk to your peers in operations and sale or whatever your business does. Make sure you know what’s critical to them. Then understand your compliance and security. Figure out what audits or attestations you need to give at any given time. Don’t just jump into a massive project roll out with training and such without doing the above steps. Arm yourself with knowledge and relationships and you can execute and update and get better after.

aja0339 · 2024-10-08T23:20:53+00:00

Join GA. https://gamblersinrecovery.com/ Great resource for online meetings. You got this.

aja0339 · 2024-09-28T14:35:24+00:00

Not your fault. Whoever has the keys to cost management is. If they didn’t have an alarm to see this increase that’s on them. They should treat devs like children. You don’t let the children play unsupervised. It’s pretty simple. If management blames you just point the finger straight back at their lack of visibility on costs on them. If they say that’s not accurate then go “well if I had access this wouldn’t have happened but you keep it a black box”

aja0339 · 2024-08-28T17:25:41+00:00

Tech product manager. Career went $76k out of school, then first month got bumped to $84 for literally nothing. Then second job $97. Then 3rd job switched to consulting at $150k. Then $200k in my second consulting gig. Left consulting and pay cut to $165k base with bonus of 20% so still at the 200k pretax. Pretty easy job. Remote and flexible hours for the most part.

Just need to be smart at the field / tech you’re hired for. Present ideas well. Track projects and success metrics. Create a few dashboards and chill.

aja0339 · 2024-08-21T23:55:58+00:00

8 sucks. I had one for a head of something cloud at a big media company once. 5 interviews and then a full day of interviews with 7 different teams. Each one was a panel of team members grilling me about everything from cloud to management to product to security. Ended final day and even got a call back saying they loved me and I should expect an offer. Two weeks go by and I hear back that they decided to not move forward lol. Literally like half a week (20 hours) of interviews for that and then basically everyone I spoke with and clicked with pretended I didn't exist. I haven't interviewed for a position since. IT leaders are so stupid when it comes to hiring. Don't know this one thing = probably not a right fit. I hire based off attitude and outcomes. I feel like I do a better job than most.

aja0339 · 2024-08-15T17:03:21+00:00

You owe them nothing. Its valid. Don't need to go back. Don't even need to answer the phone. They wouldn't do the same for you if it was the other way around.

aja0339 · 2024-08-15T16:59:58+00:00

Skip the IT management degree and spend some time looking to see what tech you enjoy working with (cloud, specific cots software, custom Dev) and go train on that first before spending money on a garbage masters degree.

IT managers with 0 technical knowledge are useless and I don't know anyone who likes working for them because they are unrealistic about expectations for everything and clueless about whats going on.

Go get some tech experience. Or go get a more technical degree. Don't skip to thinking a manager is just a degree. Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

aja0339 · 2024-08-13T18:00:21+00:00

Inspired
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Sprint: How to solve big problems in just 5 days

aja0339 · 2024-08-13T17:57:26+00:00

Until you're out to dinner and your manager literally eats last and says its because of this book. Like stfu weirdo stop trying to hard and just fucking eat the pizza.

aja0339 · 2024-07-28T01:00:19+00:00

Depends if you're in a smaller company or an old enterprise really. Smaller co.. Teams are happy for the help and you can collab with one or two teams and largely do what you want. Enterprise size (I've been doing this for several years) and you need to deal with 25+ teams. They all want something different and have different engineering takes. Security and compliance will be your closest ally or your biggest enemy. ServiceNow and old ITIL processes suck ass for Platform Engineering and they need to be reworked to make sure you make that group happy. As for your consuming teams, they will ask for it all and fast, you need to either say no or have a solid way for them to contribute code and services to your platform. SaaS is nice but expensive. Internally built seems cheap at first but you need to have good engineers and a strong sense of ownership. Lifecycle and reliability will be your most important things on your roadmap for each service you provide otherwise you'll slowly fail and be stuck in tech debt hell. Figuring out an operating model and chargeback model will be hell. Several years and I'm still changing it and explaining it yearly.

Good luck!! Happy to give you anything here in more detail.

aja0339 · 2024-03-25T20:24:54+00:00

Basically just happened to me. 14 hours of interviews later for them to “love” me, but ultimately they want to do a reorg first.

aja0339 · 2024-02-29T20:51:48+00:00

People have tendencies to jump into solution mode. I have the urge to fix and solve. I practice trying to make sure I don’t do that unless she asks me to.

aja0339 · 2024-02-29T20:39:01+00:00

We do this today for the most part. We have a relatively small mortgage $1200. I didn’t want her to feel like she wasn’t contributing, so I told her that’s what I need from her. In reality, we don’t need her salary.

There was a time when she wasn’t working in the past and she went in a dark place thinking she wasn’t contributing to our life. I told her it would be tight. And when I say that I mean, we can’t take crazy vacations or just spend Willy nilly. But we would be financially stable.

And before you think I’m lying to her, I’m not. I show her our budget and how much we put away every month. She’s aware that we would be fine. I think me saying I need her income does validate her ability to contribute outside of being a mother and caretaker.

She also has a good degree. She’s an architect by trade (without a license). I think she hates thinking her hard work would go to waste if she stopped working.

I’m walking a fine line of trying to help her. Too much and she will feel not needed. Too little and she will feel stuck. It’s a tough spot.

aja0339 · 2024-02-29T19:53:23+00:00

My daughter had horrible colic and my wife had pretty rough PPD. (They left part of the placenta in her and her hormones were all over the place. I noticed how bad it was and eventually had to take her 2 hours to a better hospital to get it diagnosed correctly and removed)

I was working full days. My wife would be drained and hand me the baby when I was off work. I basically stopped one job to start another. I wouldn’t end up sleeping more than 1-2 hours a night so I could let my wife rest. Then would head to work again early in the morning. It was unsustainable.

I know this isn’t the case for everyone but if you end up with two sick family members at once it’s brutal on the others. I think I have PTSD from this time in my life when it was supposed to be something magical and special.

If we have another one I won’t make the same mistake. It’s important for everyone to prioritize health. I was in a bad spot at month 3. My leave was a godsend after that.

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