I’m just curious

  • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    I retired last summer at the crusty old age of 38 and have been dicking around with my home lab ever since. I’ve decided that computers are much more fun as a hobby than as a job.

    I retired from the US Air Force, where I served as a sysadmin for 20 years. With my pension and disability pay, I’m able to live comfortably without work now. I could go back into the field and easily double or triple my income… but then I won’t have all the free time to enjoy my life like I’m doing now. So, retired life is good enough for me.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Damn, 38 is pretty young. I guess that goes to show the importance of getting started on retirement early

    • tun@lemm.ee
      6·
      2 years ago

      38, retired, live comfortably without work, enjoying life

      👍

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      So is there a contractual obligation in the military to use the word “cyber” 42 times a day?

      • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        When I joined back in 2002, we were known as Communications, or Comm. The Cyber thing is actually pretty new. In the last few years, I was still calling us Comm guys. I had a new Airmen ask me why I didn’t call us Cyber guys; apparently, they finally started teaching that in our tech school. Our squadrons are still called Communications Squadrons, though.

    • soundimus@lemmy.world
      31·
      2 years ago

      Saving up everything I can for this.

      I take what I learn home but it can only get me so far without the proper hardware.

  • FlyboyM619@lemmy.world
    11·
    2 years ago

    Preparing to talk with my boss about my pay and seeing if there’s a 5 year plan for our department. Also brushing off the old resume/LinkedIn in case needed.

  • littlewonder@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    Hating my current job, that was once the job of four people, with the passion of a thousand suns while I wait for my final offer letter after I countered. A job that pays more and has a set list of responsibilities and allows for creativity.

    It’s like the worst case of senioritis I’ve ever had.

  • The_Pete@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 years ago

    I got a bunch of heads this year to double our team footprint.

    I’m using those guys to bring 1mm/month of aws cost back onsite into a kubernetes cluster as well as moving existing on prem services into the same kubernetes and a few other clusters.

    I think we’ve decided the sweet spot is that we build fast with AWS and bring the winners home to lower our opex. Its a relatively nuanced look at how we build and support our products.

    So, I’ve got a few heads on managing legacy, a couple on migrating legacy to on prem k8s, a couple on just managing k8s and physical host lifecycle.

    And I’m just kinda floating just helping people out as needed. And I’m not a manager so I have full ability for direction setting and task creation and I don’t have to do any reviews or expense reports.

    So as a systems eng, this is the best gig I’ve had in 15 years.

  • themachine@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    Kubernetes in my spare time, azure in my work time.

    And by spare time I mean time not spent working for pay or playing baulders gate 3.

  • nomecks@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    I moved into presales, so now I pretty much eat lunch and do solution architect certs for a living.

  • PutangInaMo@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Nifi, kafka, waiting on management to figure out what they want. Slowly turning into a data engineer, not sure I like it to be honest.