Do system administrators still exist? Honest question. I was one of those years ago and layoffs, forced back to office bullshit drove me away
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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There are dozens of us (working for MSPs because in house doesn't pay as well and companies are cheap and want to outsource that cost center)!
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That's my job title.
What do you do now?
What, do you think it's all run by AI now?
No, just not many job postings for it. Go look on indeed with that exact title. Switch to remote, almost no jobs
So yes, they still exist.
Idk dude, I got a redundancy about a year ago. There are still jobs out there but it feels like it's dwindling.
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It must have been the same fun as when back in 2012 (or 2013?) McAfee (at least I think it was them) identified /system32 as a threat and deleted it :)
One of the few things that accursed software actually got right!
Haha, that's great!
Crowdstrike moment
Of all the people MS doesn't want to piss off.