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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Damn, 38 is pretty young. I guess that goes to show the importance of getting started on retirement early
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So is there a contractual obligation in the military to use the word "cyber" 42 times a day?
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.
Living the life. Enjoy it!
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.
Same here
It is a journey not a destination. Trust me haha.
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.
Good luck!
Last couple of weeks has been preparing for a PEN test. I'm so tired of finding things that my predecessor didn't do.
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.
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.
Playing with Nix
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.
Living the dream brother.
Migrating Bareos Backups to a new storage node.
I moved into presales, so now I pretty much eat lunch and do solution architect certs for a living.
Sitting through meeting after meeting about compliance.
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.
Brushing up on my ospf and some vtp testing in my lab.