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We have an app running on CentOS 6. The vendor of the app informed us they expect to have a new version that can run on RHEL 8 by the end of the year - 2025.

"Unlimited PTO" is a meaningless term, and a trap.
I have 42 days of PTO per year, plus 13 state holidays.
I have a right to take those days off, they can't be denied by anyone.
And if I don't take them, my team lead will have a talk with me in October at the latest, because the company would get in legal trouble if I didn't get them.

With "unlimited PTO" you have no such right to any amount of PTO.
Sure, you could try to schedule lots of PTO, but it can just be denied ("not possible right now"), or if you take too many, you're just fired.

In an enterprise environment, you rely on a service that tracks CVEs, analyzes which ones apply to your environment, and prioritizes security critical updates.
The issue here is that one of these services installed a release upgrade because Microsoft mislabelled it as security update.

I switched from an MSP to a unionized in-house position, doubled my salary and my days of paid time off.

yes, but we spend most of our time in meetings with cloud service vendors now.
I haven't been inside the server room for a month.

They labelled an OS version upgrade as a security update.

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Microsoft will rename it, add something else in its place but let the old things linger in a zombie-like state.
Lost count of how many separate Skype/Zoom apps there are now.

7 was the version if you only counted the "best ofs" Windows 3, 95, XP, Vista, 7.

When the woman you are madly in love with proposes to you.

Or when your child for the first time says "Dada" and pulls on your beard.

Just be careful of whether they're giving advice that benefits you or them

Depends. My friend who went that route positioned herself in a freelancer consultant role for government institutions and schools.
She makes 6 figures.