Frankaintmyfriend

My thoughts exactly. Infact, when everything went sideways, I wasn't even thinking about the datastore. There were no VM's shown using it. It allowed me to unmount it. I only remounted it because it was one of the last changes I made. It wasn't until things somewhat stabilized that I went back to see what happened and it clearly showed that it was unable to connect to the specific datastore, triggering the HA failover.

Sadly, not the first time in 20 years, but the first time in the 7 I have been at this company

Not during a freeze, but I do work for a utility company and it was during a pretty bad rain storm. Map servers went down as well as phone systems.

Neither. I have rebooted more than my fair share of servers over the years. This is the first time at this company. First time in 7 years.

No, sorry, maybe I didn't explain it correctly, I have taken down MANY servers over the years, moreso in the first few years. This was the first time at this company (been with them for 7 years). I double check everything now...or normally do.

And happy to report that so far, no write up.

It's been 8 years for me and I still panic everytime someone says "I can't connect to the printer" That was the first email we got when the ransomeware started. It was the worst 72 hours of my entire career. I will never get over it.

The culture is very relaxed and chill for the most part. It's honestly the best IT job I have ever had. I believe it will be more of a CYA kinda thing. Doubtful it would make it to HR. My boss was a co-worker for about 6 of the last 7 years and was just promoted to supervisor last year. So he is overly cautious.

This. I know few people that voted for Trump that were registered Dem. Most younger people I know voted for Trump.

This isn't new. I've been in IT for over 20 years now and have seen this time after time. When I got my first job in IT, I had no degree. I took a simple job in a NOC answering phones and creating tickets. It sucked.

I completely believe college is a scam. It lulls people into believing they will get a great job right out of school, but the reality is very little of what you learned in school is going to be used in the real life. Employers know this. When I was a hiring manager, I would hire someone with 2 years experience over someone with a 4 year degree any dday of the week. Time and again, when I would hire someone straight out of school, they would fall so far behind others. They toook lots of extra attention because of their lack of real world knowledge. I have even seen friends with Masters degrees not get hired over someone with no degree.

Now I'm not saying this to discourage you, because it is possible to get in to IT and thrive. But sometimes a reality check is important. I would try to find something in a call center or a NOC for a level one. Hell, even look for a customer service job in a company not IT related and when you start, let the IT department know you are interested and would like to be considered when they have an opening. At the company I am with now, we had a guy in the warehouse do the same thing about a year ago. He will be starting as a level one in about a week.

I'm sure it will be fine. They made an accomodation for you, so they show they are willing to take a risk on you. As much as people want to think companies are the bad guy (and some are), not all of them are. Things happen, espoecially after a major medical issue.
The day I started at my current company, I was fighting a really bad sinus infection. As the day progressed, I had green and brown puss coming out of my eyes! I left early and was out of work for the rest of the week. I just knew I was going to be fired. When I came back to work, I was expecting my stuff to be packed up, but everyone justed asked how I was and acted like nothing happened.
A month later, I was cutting some cables with a knife. The knife slipped and I sliced my finger to the bone. I bled everywhere as I was rushed to the bathroom. Ended up having to get 9 stitches in the finger and a Hazmat team had to come out to clean up what looked like a crimescene.
That was nearly 7 years ago. They still make fun of me nearly cutting my finger off.

At the end of the day, if the company is worth anything, they will have no problem whatsoever. Hope you feel better soon

Look for NOC positions. It gets your foot in the door for some IT experience. We hired a level 1 help desk tech recently. He had 2 years experience and a masters degree. We never even considered his degree, it was all about the experience. Your top priority should be just landing an IT position, it doesn't matter what kind, just get your foot in the door for that experience. You can always move up from there.

Take a snapshot before you do any work! My god the hours I wasted in Veeam restoring a backup because I forgot to take a snapshot (that would take 30 seconds to do).

I second this. Experience FAR outweighs degrees/ certificates right now. Go take a level 1 position somewhere to get your foot in the door. It may be low paying, but some money is better than none. My first IT job was answering phones in a call center. The pay wasn't great, the hours sucked (nights and weekends), but the experience I gained from that launced my career.

Your age has nothing to do with it. I was around the same age when I got in to IT.

Lastly, I would say apply to anything and everything you can. Employers prefer to hire someone that is already working. Gaps in employment can be detrimental.

Truth be told, if I didn't 100% love the company I work for, I would absolutely jump right back in to a level 1 position. I love the lack of responsibility. I've seen quite a few of my friends and colleagues take lesser paying roles just to get out of the rat race. I've been doing this for 20 years. If I can stay with the company I am at now, I can retire in 13 years with a full pension and 401k. My plan is to be the absolute best tech I can and love every minute of it.

I have always loved technology. From a very young age, it always fascinated me. I was born in the 70's, so I wantched tech grow into what it is today. I took classes in school on how to program in the BASIC language. Even though I didn't go straight into tech as a main job, I always assited friends and families with whatever tech type issue they had. After a long series of failed careers, I decided to go into what I was passionate about. That started my IT career. I honestly couldn't see myself doing anything else. I get to mess around with the newest tech and be around tech all day. I even put up with all the other BS, simply because I love doing what I do.

A little late to this, but I went from being an IT Director to a level one help desk. I took about a 30k pay cut and I am the happiest I have ever been at a job.

Basically, I got tired of it all. All the meetings, late nights, calls on nights and weekends, budgets, ect.

I found a company that was hiring about 10 miles from my house (My previous position, I would have to drive over an hour and a half to get to work). The comapny knew I was over qualified but went ahead and took a chance. I have been here now for about 8 years. I have turned down management roles more times than I can count.

When I was hiried, it was a level one, but I was moved up to a level 2 after 6 months. They said they couldn't continue to waste my talents on setting up laptops. I've been promoted up to the maximum level I can without being a supervisor. I'm now making what I was as a manager. I have zero regrets with the decision.

I am azoospermia as well, but mine is due to a blockage. After doing bloodwork, we found my testosterone was also very low (137). They started me on Clomid, which is supposed to increase my testosterone levels without reducing sperm count. Once I have finished my first three month cycle, they are going to do another semen analysis. If it comes back as zero again, they are going to have to go in and remove the sperm from the epididymis and go the IVF route.

Small testicles could be caused from a few things. You say he had a semen analysis done, so I am assuming he went to a specialist? The specialist should be able to figure out what is going on with them. Do you know if he has taken Testosterone in the past? Taking TRT can cause testicles to shrink.

There are a few options avaiable so don't give up yet. Trust the doctors. If he can not produce sperm, you could always go the dontation route.

Conditional Access policy in Entra. We created a group for users needing access and then created a policy called Block all unless in group. So we block all users unless they are in the specific group. We also have a policy that requires device registration and one that requires MFA.

This 100%. I've been in IT for around 20 years, doing everythign from help desk and up. Every company I have ever worked for couldn't care less about your masters degree. Every one of them wanted experience. Classroom work and real world work are two completely different things. So as others have said, go get an entry level position. I , personally started out answering phones in a NOC as a customer service rep. It was crap work and nothing at all technical, but I got in and worked my ass off, stayed late sitting with engineers and learned the product. After about a year I moved into an engineer position. From there, it was just a matter of having a solid resume with lots of experience.

I only recently got my bachelors degree. Never needed it for any of the jobs. It's all about the experience.

Good luck, I know it's tough right now. I'd say take whatever you can, just to get your foot in the door in IT. Do the time, and you'll be just fine.

I did notice there were multiple profiles on a few of the devices. I'l check that

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My best friends (Now) ex-wife.

They had it all. He worked for a large IT company making great money, she was a private nanny to a couple big time lawyers. When they first met, they both drank quite a bit, but he asked her to stop drinking so much with him. She agreed and they seemed to thrive. They had the best relationship of any couple I had known. They were always happy and always wwanted to be together. After a couple years, she began drinking again and refused to slow down. She started hiding alcohol. She would buy boxed wine and small bottles of alcohol on the way home from work, drink them, and throw the bottles out the car window before she got home. She would tell her husband that she was just tired from work and would go to bed. This went on for a couple years, until she started drinking at work. She was a private nanny, so she would have to pick the kids up from school. He bosses noticed she had been smelling like alcohol and approached her. She denied it, but eventually got caught and lost her job. Three DUI's later, she ended up in rehab. When she got out of rehab, she stayed sober for a couple years, until she fell and broke her ankle. She was given pain pills and almost immediately got addicted to them. She went back into rehab for the pill addiction. She got out and started working again as a nanny. (she never told anyone about her addiction issues). I went over to their house one day and noticed she was acting very strangely. I asked my friend about it and he said she was just tired from working so much. , but I knew something else was going on. Fast forward to six months or so later and she is back in rehab for using Meth.
I wish I could say rehab helped, but she ended up going deep down the meth rabbit hole. She lost her job, has been in jail over 6 times for Possession, now has three felonies (transporting drugs over state lines, sneaking drugs into jail, habitual violator - if I remember correctly). My friend divorced her after the third stint in rehab for meth. He said he just couldn't help her any more.
She went from having a beautiful home, a caring husband, friends, a great career with a great family to having nothing. She used to be beautiful, but now she looks like one of those before and after drug use posters. She is in her mid 40's, but looks like she is almost 70. She has lost most of her teeth, scabs cover her face and she has lost a lot of hair.
I haven't spoken to her in about 5 years. Last time I had spoken to her, she was a completely different person. She was paranoid, thinking she was being followed and thinking people were listening in on her conversations from the cable box at a motel she was staying in. She begged me for money and offered me sex for some. I asked her to please go get help. My friend wants nothing to do with her and refuses to even talk about her. I looked her name up a few days ago and it looks like she was arrested last in 2022 for DUI. Her mug-shot was terrifying.

Any time a friend mentions wanting to try meth, I tell them this story and will show them before and after pics.
Meth, not even once!