Back in the saddle again!!!

jamesknippa · 2019-06-10T19:19:46.000Z

Just got hired with a small manufacturing company after a year long hiatus. I’ve got the main site inventoried, help desk setup… next projects will including building some management dashboards, linking all the sites together with some type of WAN architecture, and cleaning up the desktop + server infrastructure.

In my last position, everything was on fire when I took over(hypervisors with no passwords, Active Directory with no DNS, on fire). Here, everything is calm… I get maybe one call a day. I attribute this to the small number of computer users in the company, and a previous admin who put in a lot of time making things stable. Last company(automotive retail) everyone had AT LEAST one device, sometimes more. Here, only about 50 or so users actually have workstations that they use daily. So I’m finding myself with a lot of downtime… I’m using it to document stuff. Although I’m having trouble getting my Netbox setup to work properly… Probably because I’m sudoing where I shouldn’t sudo. I’ll figure it out.

I think the biggest challenge for me here will be complacency. My plan is to get this environment up to speed with some redundancy, maybe build a few front end projects to…

one long meeting later company just went through a round of layoffs today. Parking lot is empty.

Ah well. I’m safe. Computers run the manufacturing equipment, and my salary is very competitive. Just another day as a solo admin.

Now, about that off-boarding process…

jemjules · 2019-06-10T19:24:18.000Z

Congrats on the new position. I am glad your job is secure! Here’s to a new pace and work schedule!

atatngie · 2019-06-10T19:27:52.000Z

Congrats on your new position. This is always great to hear!

matt2257 · 2019-06-10T19:44:20.000Z

It’s not often you hear about someone taking over for a good sysadmin. Congrats

tb33t · 2019-06-10T19:47:47.000Z

Congrats! To me any downtime = project planning to make the infrastructure better.

spiceuser-i9eyu · 2019-06-10T19:58:38.000Z

Whenever I think things are going right, that I have the best security etc… Is when things usually blow up.

kmbugua · 2019-06-11T02:22:07.000Z

Congratulations…am glad you took time and give the old sys admin a shout out…

dbeato · 2019-06-11T08:56:01.000Z

Congratulations on your new venture!

james485 · 2019-06-11T09:32:21.000Z

Congrats on landing the new job and welcome back to the community!

georgemcfarlin · 2019-06-11T09:45:26.000Z

Welcome back to IT.

biscuitking · 2019-06-11T10:44:10.000Z

I hope you don’t feel like this later.

tomsteinmetz6433 · 2019-06-11T10:56:14.000Z

Congrats!

spiceuser-34354 · 2019-06-11T12:32:09.000Z

Sounds like you could use some stuff to do. I’d be happy to help with that.