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Tell me about your work life! (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been in and out of so many different jobs. Usually I get to a point where I burn out and just can't go in anymore. Best job I ever had was as a tour guide in a distillery telling people facts all day and working with what I now realise was a whole bunch of other neurodivergent people. Only left that because I wasn't paid enough to live. Honestly could have stayed there forever otherwise. Such is life!

Currently in the middle of a career change after realising the whole 9-5 office job life isnt sustainable for me. I'm hoping to be able to work for myself soon and not be beholden to other people's schedules!

What jobs have you tried out over the years? What has worked well for ye?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IT Swiss Army Knife. My current position is in Infrastructure but I dabble in SQL, Azure, AWS, Kubernetes, team management, MDM, etc. The infrastructure here is solid and requires little maintenance so I'm sometimes glad to have other areas to work in. I'm looking for a move soon to something less all over the place and focus on more on Azure as a whole. Something remote would be nice vs. coming to an office on the daily to work in nothing but cloud services.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something remote would be nice vs. coming to an office on the daily to work in nothing but cloud services.

Hard agree! So many admin roles have no place in an office.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

90 percent of my day currently is working in Azure portal and PowerShell. I commute 20 miles to the office to do this. Upper management says we need to be on site because we are team oriented. And teams need to be present to work well together. The other 10 percent of my day is complaining with my team.