Typical Work Day
I just got home from work. It's 15 past midnight and I think that there is no such thing as a typical day. I had this weird impression of what life would by like as a SYSAD and boy was I wrong.
Dont' misunderstand me. I really, really like my job. I just had this weird idea that it didn't require so much maintainence. This job never stops. I've owned and maintained/managed my own computer for years and I just assumed that when you were responsible for a bunch of company machines life would be easier but instead I think it's exponentially harder.
It takes so much freaking time just to make sure shit keeps working. It's freaking amazing. I can't even imaging what life is like in a Data Center or at an ISP. It must be a total freaking nightmare.
[I'm not talking about my X in this post] She's gone and I have zero control over that so I have to move on. (Prozac FTW!)
I want to say it again. I really like my job. I wish that I could change certain things that might make life easier but I'm not sure what I'd change.
But I'll try anyway:
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Dont' misunderstand me. I really, really like my job. I just had this weird idea that it didn't require so much maintainence. This job never stops. I've owned and maintained/managed my own computer for years and I just assumed that when you were responsible for a bunch of company machines life would be easier but instead I think it's exponentially harder.
It takes so much freaking time just to make sure shit keeps working. It's freaking amazing. I can't even imaging what life is like in a Data Center or at an ISP. It must be a total freaking nightmare.
[I'm not talking about my X in this post] She's gone and I have zero control over that so I have to move on. (Prozac FTW!)
I want to say it again. I really like my job. I wish that I could change certain things that might make life easier but I'm not sure what I'd change.
But I'll try anyway:
- Don't let anyone purchase anything without your local sysad vetting how it will perform.
- Give us time to test out shit before we go live in production with it.
- Don't focus so much on downtime let's talk about how fast we can bring it back instead.
- There is nothing wrong with Windows stuff.
- Open source isn't always free.
- If you are going to "go deep" with linux then bring in a team to backup your quarterback.
- VOIP should be changed to OMFG-VOIP.
- Really, do you NEED to have admin rights that bad.
- Nothing is simple about file sharing.
- Seriously, I need to have a ticket before I can help you.
Enough of that.
I'm tired, and I have to be at work tomorrow.
[Damn I was pretty angry in that last post wasn't I]
Posted by Jeff Estes wishing you would subscribe to my blog and sponser my lunch breaks
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