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BaseballPCHiker posted:Still sometimes I do wonder what I could make leaving for the private sector. I have that thought a lot myself. Grass always seems greener but I'm here for at least another 5 years since they're paying for my tuition.
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BaseballPCHiker posted:I work local government and I love every minute of it. Super low stress, but still we're big enough and have enough budget that we get to do lots without getting bogged down by state level bureaucracies. I get great benefits a good pension and health care, 18 days of PTO just two years in and I leave my work at work every night. I left the private sector because of the unethical bullshit, stress and burnout, lack of regard for human beings, and greed. I'm in the public sector now at an organization where I get to do modern cloud DevSecOps work, and have a positive impact on society and other people. Yes, I could make more money privately. But life isn't all about money. And life is too short to just greedily chase a paycheque without regard for what is, in reality, more important.
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CLAM DOWN posted:I left the private sector because of the unethical bullshit, stress and burnout, lack of regard for human beings, and greed. I'm in the public sector now at an organization where I get to do modern cloud DevSecOps work, and have a positive impact on society and other people. Yes, I could make more money privately. But life isn't all about money. And life is too short to just greedily chase a paycheque without regard for what is, in reality, more important. Thats where I'm at. Everyone here treats one another with respect, people are kind and understanding. Its such a nice change of pace from my previous MSP and corporate job. People dont expect you to work crazy hours or to drop everything else in your life to finish some work project. Maybe in a few years I'll get desperate for the money but right now I still get paid enough to live well and actually have a job that isnt killing me from stress.
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Local government employee here too. Pay is quite good and benefits are fantastic. After-hours support burden is minimal. Our department's structure and management is unsurprisingly a flaming dumpster fire, but thanks to being a top-down bureaucracy it seems change is coming to that soon.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:03
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Still in the process of finding a new place and this conversation has me jonesing to find something good. Just hard to turn down a job offer when you're currently unemployed. Got plenty of time, but man I am already antsy after a week.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:05
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BaseballPCHiker posted:Thats where I'm at. Everyone here treats one another with respect, people are kind and understanding. Its such a nice change of pace from my previous MSP and corporate job. People dont expect you to work crazy hours or to drop everything else in your life to finish some work project. Maybe in a few years I'll get desperate for the money but right now I still get paid enough to live well and actually have a job that isnt killing me from stress. My public sector org still pays very well for our cloud/devops stuff, like I'm at 6 figures. It's not Amazon levels for sure, but it's more than enough to live comfortably by, and I decided a while back that it's worth it. And the union benefits and work/life balance is surreal. I love it. As long as this role keeps challenging me and stays interesting, I can definitely see myself taking advantage of this sweet sweet pension.
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Sepist posted:My friend is a senior network engineer at Amazon Go and his base is 150 but he started with 200k-ish in RSUs and gets quite a few every year hes there. His original RSUs are worth over 500k now. Personally I prefer to have the higher salary than RSUs When I started at AWS five years ago, AMZN was around $280 and I remember feeling super bummed that I'd missed the stock surge that comes with a new company that turns the corner and starts gaining momentum. The only thing I did right was doing nothing and letting my RSUs sit for five years. But ordinarily I'm like you and prefer not to gamble with my income. I know personally a couple of guys who took income in the form of 80% stock in start ups during the late 90s dot-com boom and then had to file bankruptcy because their stocks were underwater and they owed taxes on the strike price. BaseballPCHiker posted:I work local government and I love every minute of it. Super low stress, but still we're big enough and have enough budget that we get to do lots without getting bogged down by state level bureaucracies. I get great benefits a good pension and health care, 18 days of PTO just two years in and I leave my work at work every night. My first jobs were in public sector and I enjoyed them too. But the pace was a lot slower than private sector and the dot-coms were happening so I left for an environmental engineering startup. Which soon folded.  Agrikk fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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I'm in an odd public/private hybrid situation. I get good benefits, good pay (not FAANG pay, but above average for the region). My only complaint is that I'm less than a year away from finishing some longer term projects and if nothing changes I'm going to bore-out if nothing changes. That being said, between the continually pending remodel and potential vp shakeup, I might try getting out earlier than that.
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Apr 16, 2019 19:44
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CLAM DOWN posted:My public sector org still pays very well for our cloud/devops stuff, like I'm at 6 figures. It's not Amazon levels for sure, but it's more than enough to live comfortably by, and I decided a while back that it's worth it. And the union benefits and work/life balance is surreal. I love it. As long as this role keeps challenging me and stays interesting, I can definitely see myself taking advantage of this sweet sweet pension. Now we're talking! Thats one of the great benefits here as well, that sweet tasty pension. If I never left jobs and kept getting cost of living adjustments at our current rates I could comfortably retire at 50 easily. If I work another 5 years here I'll be up to 7 weeks vacation too. That makes the difference in pay a whole lot easier to take. I've learned that these local government jobs are very insular to a degree. If you do good work and get a good reputation there is nothing that prevents you from making a move to a a different city/org or even up to the state level if you wanted to.
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I work at a Financial Institution and would certainly describe the work culture as good. That being said I would describe my paycheck as woefully bad, but they are carving a path for me to be doing exactly what I want to be doing. We'll see what kinda dollars that levels out to, but at the very least I'll finally be doing interesting things rather than wasting away like I have been for the last couple years.
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ChubbyThePhat posted:I work at a Financial Institution and would certainly describe the work culture as good. That being said I would describe my paycheck as woefully bad, but they are carving a path for me to be doing exactly what I want to be doing. We'll see what kinda dollars that levels out to, but at the very least I'll finally be doing interesting things rather than wasting away like I have been for the last couple years. I hope they're not just blowing smoke up your rear end.
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I'm having a real first world problem at the office lately. Our ping pong table is super close to our largest conference room. It is constantly booked and they've instituted a no ping pong rule when the conference room is used. 30 feet away is the same sized conference room but its B instead of A so it gets used much less and doesnt have the same ping pong rule. I just want them to change the designation so I can play ping pong more 
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Apr 16, 2019 21:38
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mllaneza posted:Powershell is about using it instead of the GUI. I've been making conscious efforts to Google the Powershell for what I need to look up. It's taking some time to internalize it all, but God willing I've run regedit.exe for the last time. My dad just ordered a new iMac and learning about this will probably make his (...and therefore my) use experience better.
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Agrikk posted:All I know is what I make and it's not polite to talk about salaries. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Apr 16, 2019 23:14
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If someone doesn't want to talk about their salary online that is totally cool imo. It's the bosses at work telling staff not to discuss it when I have an issue.
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Apr 16, 2019 23:29
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Thanks Ants posted:If someone doesn't want to talk about their salary online that is totally cool imo. It's the bosses at work telling staff not to discuss it when I have an issue. Luckily, as I'm public sector in my province, I don't have a choice! My salary gets posted online along with my name/position whether I want it to or not :|
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Apr 16, 2019 23:38
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When I was at rackspace the vp of support emailed out a spreadsheet of everyone’s salary under him. It was kinda shocking how little some people got paid.
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Anyone who wants too, feel free to post their job title, company, salary and tenure ITT.
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Also the idiots that got paid really well. Pays to be a brown noser I guess.
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Agrikk posted:Anyone who wants too, feel free to post their job title, company, salary and tenure ITT. *ahem* $69,420
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Paul ReiserFS posted:*ahem* How do you live?
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Paul ReiserFS posted:*ahem* Nice!
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While I wouldn't post it in a public place (esp. 'cause goons), I know what all my team members make and what a lot of co-workers in other groups in my division make. Honestly, there aren't many surprises there. Fortune 5 company.
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Oh hey, I technically have a new personal record for bash scripts at 361 lines. I say 'technically' because it's the output of a 25 line script I wrote to automate what would otherwise be a ridiculously tedious iptables task.
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jaegerx posted:How do you live? Nicely
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Schadenboner posted:Nice!
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Paul ReiserFS posted:Nicely I don’t get out of bed for less than 150k now.
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Agrikk posted:Anyone who wants too, feel free to post their job title, company, salary and tenure ITT. I work for a small not-for-profit in the finance sector in a hybrid IT/Operations position (mostly IT, but a lot of stuff I touch directly affects Operations) and I made $54,000 last year, after cashing in some PTO. Thanks Ants posted:If someone doesn't want to talk about their salary online that is totally cool imo. It's the bosses at work telling staff not to discuss it when I have an issue. I'm definitely fine with people not doing it in dead, gay forums on the internet. Ham Equity fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Apr 17, 2019 |
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I make 23 an hour, but it's just NOC Jocking, and my commute is like 12 minutes each way. E: It's also Milwaukee which is cheap af.
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I'm making 64k a year as tier 1 windows sysadmin in a 24/7 ops center (Detroit area).
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48k, Director of Infrastructure at a pubic college. I could be making a shitton more if I were willing to relocate, but I'm happy where I'm at E: and in this case Infrastructure is servers, storage, networking (wired, wireless, fiber, loving telco too), door access, cameras, desktop support, vendor and contract management.... Basically everything that's not programming or LMS. 4 full-timers under me with a dozen student helpdesk techs. CloFan fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Apr 17, 2019 |
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55k as a network admin. I was making 62 in support at a software company but had a stretch of unemployment before accepting this offer. At least I’m enjoying the work WAY more, but still feel like I hosed myself by not negotiating at all. My 2nd job in my 4 years in the IT area of work
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70k as a network admin in the Baltimore. area. It’s mostly project work at this point and starting to move into azure with a touch of devops stuff. We just had our first successful ‘cloud’ product launch and it’s making me want to ask for a raise. We get 3% annually but that doesn’t really keep up with the market.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Luckily, as I'm public sector in my province, I don't have a choice! My salary gets posted online along with my name/position whether I want it to or not :| That's fine with me - no stress, 38 hour weeks, no on-call, 4 weeks PTO, 15 paid sick days a year. Overtime paid if we need to do scheduled/emergency maintenance after hours. The trade-off is the glacial pace that everyone moves at. I'm the youngest in the office - half these people have been here for over 15 years.
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80,000 in Houston. Doing senior admin level work apparently. I'm the most knowledgeable server guy here now. Previous senior guy just left and doubled his salary. I think I'm gonna try and do the same.
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$85k in Anchorage, Alaska. I am officially a Systems Administrator, but my responsibilities are pretty wide and I do everything from user support to infrastructure design.
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I'll play. Sr. Communications Specialist. Some bs title idk what it even means, I think it just refers to the fact that I'm literally the only person with any Telecom background. ~$81,000 salaried. When I started this job 4 years ago it was half that. A series of unfortunate (for others) events and a revolving door or replacements apparently clued management to the fact that maybe the couple people that stuck around to keep the lights on might be worth hanging on to. I got a 12k raise recently that I consider them getting paid up on their bullshit tax. It's not the greatest salary but I live very comfortably on it. The wife even managed to drop a day from her schedule every 2 weeks.
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165k San Antonio. Remote. You gotta get in on this container racket. It’s great
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jaegerx posted:165k San Antonio. Remote. You gotta get in on this container racket. It’s great What aspect of it? I helped introduce k8s here and setup the pipelines we use to deploy to it. Unfortunately I’m not a dev by any means. Are there positions out there for sysadmins but uh, only for container workloads? Or what?
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$60k, Bay Area (rent control !) doing OpsEngineering (scripting and virtualization projects) at a biotech. I could be making more money (lovely MSP between my pockets and theirs), but they leave me alone to play with kvm, Powershell, and bash all week.
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