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Burnout

Hey there OP! Okay, so I was a little hesitant to write this, mainly because of expected backlash from most of your internet trolls that reside on this subreddit. Now, don't get me wrong, there are a ton of amazing, intelligent and helpful individuals here. And I promise you I will get to my point shortly... Lol

I myself made a transition from IT intern to desktop support to associate system engineer and now to my current position of a systems/devops engineer in working toward moving into site reliability or senior DevOps. There's a causal link I've noticed between what I've seen personally in my career and who I've met along the way and a correlation directly to what I've seen within multiple tech-related subreddits here. I am a day-to-day member of the PowerShell subreddit as well as the DevOps subreddit. I have probably posted well over 50 times in the former and contributed even more. I have literally and I mean literally never received a sarcastic comment or someone having a bad day or anything akin to this. I have posted on this subreddit maybe a handful of times with what I believe we're very coherent task driven questions and have either been downvoted told to go read a book or something along those lines.

now the causal link or direct correlation that I was talking about is that I've noticed, and who am I to judge as a generality as this may not be true but the most miserable bastards I've ever come across were all in the general IT/sis admin roles. To be honest I don't know what it is? I wonder if it's because of a lack of energy, education, drive, etc? My advice to you my friend is depending on where you are now and where you want your career to go is to get the hell out of general IT / admin as fast as possible!

There was a very interesting quote I heard a couple years back from PowerShell aficionado, Don Jones at a DevOps collective conference. I'm paraphrasing but it was something akin to, if you're currently in the IT space, start learning structural code/infrastructure is code or get used to the phrase, would you like fries with that?

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