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Why would you stay? What do you have to lose if you start looking?

Most of my reluctance to leave a bad job has come from two places, not feeling like I have enough to invest in looking, and fear of rejection. I don't know if those two apply to you at all, but I'm going to address them anyway :). To the first, right now you are probably unhappy and stressed out because of all of the reasons you outlined above. If you can reduce some of the things that contribute to that you will be a better person outside of work. Taking some time now to invest is worth the return.

However this is where the latter has stepped in for me in the past. There is no "4 easy steps to over coming the fear or rejection". If you go looking for another job you will get rejected. Maybe quite a few times (unemployed for 18 months with hundreds of applications for me). The reality is that if you don't try, apply, interview you won't be any better off. At some point you have to decide if you are worth taking a chance on and do it.

On the positive side, you already have a job that is paying your bills (maybe not well, but on some level enough). This means you can go into interviews knowing that you can afford to turn them down. You have power in the process. You control whether or not you take the job. If it feels weird, it probably is. If something feels off, it probably is. Move on. There is too much drama in the world that you can't fix to take a job where you can't avoid said drama.

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@scottalanmiller said in I’d rather be....:

@penguinwrangler might not be enough hotel space, lol.

Cruise ships

I was just talking to some vendors about this at a conference recently (yesterday). One of the ones that really caught my eye was TopDesk. I don't know if they support on-premises deployment or not, but I think the others might check the right boxes. I have no idea on pricing, but I believe they were the ones that do their licensing based on FTE count (due to having a broader focus than just ITSM).

@coliver said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@kelly said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

Have any of you tried Tabletop Simulator with a paper based RPG? If yes, what did you think?

I think it would be pretty cool... but curious on the setup. I have an acquaintance who runs a video game streaming company. They have regular tabletop simulator DnD nights.

There are a ton of fan made modules on Steam. We're looking at using it for an Edge of the Empire (Star Wars) campaign where we all are remote.

You can try Apple Configurator and see if that gets you where you need to go, but Apple goes through these cycles of not supporting it. There are several free MDM solutions out there. They will have different things locked behind paywalls, so they may or may not get you to where you want to go.

@joy said in Gold Coast Marathon 2018:

Finally here in Australia!

Huzzah!

I have not read the whole thread, so I apologize if I missed something. I read through the first ~20 posts and decided to toss my stuff in here.

We currently use a tool called CyberArk for privilege escalation. It requires that an exe be registered with it by an admin, but allows an end user to silently escalate a process that has been so registered. This gives us the ability to remove admin rights from almost everyone (I don't have any), and still allow the function that is needed for business operations. Depending on your scale it might not make financial sense, but it saved my city a large chunk of time and resources.

@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Well,.. This is new!

What the blue blazes i the blue box around the topic....

It's a bu...er...feature.

I'm curious if anyone else has run into issues with Dropbox and/or Box coming after you pretty hard for money? The Box issue has died down somewhat, but Dropbox is driving me nuts. They are asking me to pay some unnamed amount for an unspecified number of accounts ("over 600") that have performed a number of actions. They are also refusing to provide me with the accounts in question because they consider that information to be PII.

I'm not in a good space to be dealing with this level of absurdity. Anyone else had something like this with either of these vendors? If yes, what did you do to handle it? If our police department didn't use dropbox for some things I would block their domain at the firewall.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Any tips on writing a proposal for Directors/Board to a hardware refresh instead of "Coz i like shiny new stuff to play with"

It's all about the ROI. If you can demonstrate a connection between the purchase and an improvement in processes, security, etc. then you are much more likely to get approval. If you want any specific suggestions let me know and I'll pm you my email address.

In the state of Colorado the law is written such that if an encryption key is obtained the data is considered compromised.

RPG night tonight.

I was having a discussion today about how scheduling is one of my more repetitive, stress-inducing tasks (not going into why it is stress inducing). So I started looking at what tools were out there that could do this for me. Have any of you ever looked into it?

The one that I looked at the most is https://x.ai/.

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@kelly said in Non-IT News Thread:

Apparently @RojoLoco is going to live forever: https://pigeonsandplanes.com/news/2018/03/new-study-going-to-concerts-help-you-live-longer.

Have the top 500 oldest people recorded gone to concerts?

The gist of the conclusion is that if you do things you enjoy that are high energy and are in a community you tend to feel better, and feeling better equals living longer.

@JaredBusch said in DHCP Question...:

The DHCP range is always the full subnet. That is standard, even if Windows lets you do stupid shit.

Here is my home router.
Instead of visibly showing ranges to exclude, outside of windows, you typically tell it hat range to pass out. I'm passing out .31 - .254
Primary DNS is my PiHole on .4
Secondary DNS is the router on .1

Can you clarify something for me @JaredBusch. You stated that DHCP range is always the full subnet, but yours is from .31 to .254. I feel like I'm missing something.

13 year old was asking for book recommendations. I'm torn between recommending the Thrawn trilogy and protecting her from the heartbreak of knowing how good episodes 7-9 could have been.

I've used both MEmu and Bluestacks. MEmu was a bit faster and was less pushy about advertising. Bluestacks is more widely recognized and supported though. I didn't play much with keymaps and other features when I was using MEmu more heavily, but Bluestacks seems to have more of that.

When a job has "Lead team development including resolve conflicts in technical approach among technical staff" as the first responsibility...

Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope

Link: https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/504473600

Given that you're seeing intermittent service you probably have a dual routing issue. If you can use pathping or traceroute to determine the paths that your traffic is taking that might give you some visibility into how your traffic is flowing. If you haven't already pruned it, I would remove all of the routes off the 3750 if possible.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Tons of Sage 50 corruption issues this morning.

I'm sorry that you have to work with Sage.

Helps to ensure our jobs, though.

Some of my experiences made me question the value of said job...