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Well, after 16 years I am no longer a one-person IT department. The company, Real Estate Brokerage, was sold to a another, much larger brokerage. I am now part of a team of six different skilled people. Most all of my duties (hahaha…duties) are the same except I now do them for over 500 users covering 17 offices in 5 states.

Now I just need to negotiate a nice pay bump :heavy_dollar_sign:

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congrats, hope it goes well.

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Congrats! I was lone wolfing it until last year (although only for ~4 years). I sometimes still feel like I am but people definitely need time to catch up to speed.

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Congrats hope you get the raise you deserve.

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Thanks, but it is hard to let go. The other day my 365 backup tech picked up a ticket and accessed what was just my 365 to fix the issue. My first thought was WTF, get out of my network!! But then realized I have a backup person. No more working vacation days and crap :yum:

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Congrats! Just watch out for ‘redundant systems’ while negotiating that salary.

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Congrats!!

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Some days I like being the entire IT dept. Other days it sure would be nice to have someone else to bounce ideas off of, or to share the responsibility with.

Make the most of it and see what you can learn from the new crew.

I hope it goes well for you.

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Sounds like it was a smooth transition.

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I hope all goes as you hope.

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Good Luck with that.

I suspect I work for a competitor company lol. I know they’ve been buying up brokerages in the US. They’re starting to move more to the UK Model which is far more organised than the disparate mess the US is atm (with some many different msp’s and individual people used to having no structure or organisation).

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Now I just need to negotiate a nice pay bump :heavy_dollar_sign:

Good luck with that!

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I hope you get that pay bump!

I’ve gotten cost of living increases over the years but never a pay increase unless I changed jobs. hmmmmm

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Awesome, having experienced both, I can say I really welcome working with other technical staff, learn a lot more from the added skill sets. 16 years is a long time to run solo and adjust to giving up some of your control. Sadly, odds are usually not favorable for 1 man shops that transition over to multi-user IT shops. I watched a company take over 5 smaller shops with similar setup as yours and 4 of 5 of the people that were running IT in those small shops left after 6mo to 1 year mostly because things they did before were eventually whittled away. My point being is I would really negotiate and put in writing your job scope, duties and also the pay bump :slight_smile: Lock that in.

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Good luck with the negotiating on the pay bump

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I hope it goes well with the negotiating.