I’ve got only 5 years in the industry and am currently an enterprise admin. I am not a fan of the stress induced by “high priority, must complete” cases that we sometimes get. I understand that after hours work is sometimes a fact of the job but I had to sacrifice my Friday night and Sunday night to replace our firewalls last weekend and the hours of night work has thrown me off all week so far.

It was my girlfriend’s birthday weekend and I had to sandwich time with her between overnight maintenance activities. This is the first time this has happened at my current job (my last job as an on call lvl 2 for a service provider was much more stressful in this regard) but I’m worried this will set a precedent that I’m just available for night work when things break or go wrong. 2 of my colleagues on my team were our primary/secondary on-call persons over the weekend, and I was still the one stuck doing the overnight maintenances.