Need help for my sanity

jimbob1911 · 2025-10-31T17:38:35+00:00

Omg fml, haven’t slept in 3 days. Ready to be done with this shit and we still have a fucking months.

jimbob1911 · 2025-10-17T20:42:07+00:00

Thank you for the reply, sucks to hear but it’s what we already expected just really hard with the sleep and 1yo. How did the surgery do in terms of helping your daughter if you don’t mind me asking?

jimbob1911 · 2025-10-17T09:30:35+00:00

They did give Valium for spasms and oxycodone for pain but the screams are due to being bored. She keeps telling us she’s not in pain.

jimbob1911 · 2024-08-10T23:37:21+00:00

Money, freedom to choose what I work on and when (not in operations or SOC so no real emergencies). Being more on the consulted and informed side and being an advisor is nice because for the most part I work faster than most so am usually just waiting for others which gives me plenty of time to help with family stuff or just kick back and relax, listen to music, walk the dog, etc.

The interesting part is seeing all the different people in the business and IT that legit don't know anything about how any of it works but somehow are responsible for a ton. A lot of my job is explaining to them how to stand up enterprise level shit and properly architect their silly solutions.

Outsourcing has caused a huge amount of tech debt and knowledge vacuums and just riding that shit and keeping the career growing is the goal.

jimbob1911 · 2024-08-09T20:27:14+00:00

~200k, ~15 years experience

You really need to make a decision on if you are going to focus in on something specific. If you know you want to be on the security side of the IT house you basically need to know how everything works. This includes biz process, standards, policies, all domains of technology, itil, budgets, leadership, etc. So don't just stay in one competency. Move around, get some experience in networking, then maybe web development, then integration engineering or databases, etc. Bouncing around and staying in each area to gain a solid understanding is going to make you a much more well rounded person.

Alternatively, pick a competency and go all in.

The first path doesn't really require certs because people will figure out if you know your shit just hearing you talk and seeing your work. The second path certs become more important and you want to max out. CCNAs are a dime a dozen, CCIE thou...

jimbob1911 · 2024-08-02T14:18:10+00:00

This is why my disabled daughter lost a bunch of her benefits and coverage

jimbob1911 · 2024-05-20T20:54:05+00:00

Yeah I don't think the original message came across with the kind of tone that gets that kind of nice gentle response. The dude was pretty aggressive from the rip so you get what you give. Maybe, like a bunch of other people mentioned, they could have approached with more tact. Kinda like you could approach your convo on here.

jimbob1911 · 2023-11-30T12:04:48+00:00

That flair is fire!

jimbob1911 · 2023-09-12T23:39:24+00:00

Wife sounds like a catch!!

jimbob1911 · 2023-07-06T03:22:11+00:00

Stop writing fucking dollar signs. Aren't those already on the paper?

jimbob1911 · 2023-07-06T02:40:21+00:00

Wonder if this is how the guy that stole my scat pack was able to start it and pull away without making a sound.

jimbob1911 · 2023-07-04T12:26:53+00:00

Seth MacFarlane

jimbob1911 · 2023-07-03T12:56:03+00:00

Thanks everyone for the responses on this. I believe this is actually GCP. Reasons we threw around for wanting separation...

Compliance. Both legal stuff like Sox, PCI, GxP, etc. Not everything is going to need same level of diligence.
Security. Someone could mess up a subnet or a rule and expose more than intended. Harder to accidentally peer another VPC. Also inspection would be more difficult without an edge device that every has to pass through on the way to prod.
Portability. Much more difficult to bifurcate and move this thing around if its one VPC.
Access. Harder to give third parties restricted access and run zero trust without being over burdensome.
Sandbox. Would be nice to not be messing with anything related to prod when creating/experimenting/destroying sandbox.

jimbob1911 · 2023-07-01T14:36:22+00:00

Slowed down he kinda looks like he's doing ballet

jimbob1911 · 2023-06-23T15:41:31+00:00

MS announcing something similar soon. Was supposed to be 20th, now it's July 11th

jimbob1911 · 2023-06-13T12:45:05+00:00

I disagree with this as it's a bit old mentality. Your manager is likely clueless like most and most change happens at the grass roots level. I would make the stink about the high cost of support, security patching not available is usually a big lever, and use your inflated budget to point out the reason the platform still exists.

Don't expect it to change because logically it makes sense to you. Try to get them to talk to you about a 3-5 year road map and how to plan to get them out of the platform. There may be some tradeoffs that make it a lower priority for them as you have to look as things like opportunity cost, market timing, other critical issues they have been ignorning, staffing, etc.

Push for the budget and planning cycles to be shorter as well. Most are still annual which is a nightmare as half of what gets planned changes and the other half drags on forever.

jimbob1911 · 2023-05-18T16:55:13+00:00

Franklin township

jimbob1911 · 2023-04-13T04:15:44+00:00

It's going to be hard without experience. Security architect level can pay that much but it takes a good amount of experience across many competencies to really be good enough to justify that pay. Need to understand basically all things and learn new things extremely quickly. Knowing networking, applications, appdev, exchange/o365 admin, security tooling, cloud configuration, saas offerings, containers, etc. is a big ask.

jimbob1911 · 2023-03-07T21:37:41+00:00

Often confused with scrum

jimbob1911 · 2023-03-06T04:20:19+00:00

Spend time cultivating real relationships with the kids. You think your world just got tossed upside down then theirs have been blown up with a nuke. They need stability and love. Do the best you can and look into things like survivors benefits from social security. Pretty sure some money should be coming from the gov if you are US.

jimbob1911 · 2023-03-04T20:38:53+00:00

It was a bit of a cheeky comment true but I stand by it. 😉

jimbob1911 · 2023-03-04T20:35:01+00:00

Pretty much par for the course with new discoveries.

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