I retired last summer at the crusty old age of 38 and have been dicking around with my home lab ever since. I've decided that computers are much more fun as a hobby than as a job.

I retired from the US Air Force, where I served as a sysadmin for 20 years. With my pension and disability pay, I'm able to live comfortably without work now. I could go back into the field and easily double or triple my income... but then I won't have all the free time to enjoy my life like I'm doing now. So, retired life is good enough for me.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago

Damn, 38 is pretty young. I guess that goes to show the importance of getting started on retirement early

[–] tun@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

38, retired, live comfortably without work, enjoying life

👍

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is there a contractual obligation in the military to use the word "cyber" 42 times a day?

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

When I joined back in 2002, we were known as Communications, or Comm. The Cyber thing is actually pretty new. In the last few years, I was still calling us Comm guys. I had a new Airmen ask me why I didn't call us Cyber guys; apparently, they finally started teaching that in our tech school. Our squadrons are still called Communications Squadrons, though.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

Living the life. Enjoy it!

[–] soundimus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Saving up everything I can for this.

I take what I learn home but it can only get me so far without the proper hardware.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Working on retaking my online life through a combination of switching to self hosted solutions and Foss.

So fucking sick and tired of this cloud shit and the constant erosion of privacy and control. I've had enough.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Same here

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a journey not a destination. Trust me haha.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah it took a huge amount of effort so far, but I'm about 80% through. It helps that I have been using Linux and Foss in general in work and play (but rarely desktop) since the 90's. I realize I won't get to 100%, for example email is way too much hassle to self host for me personally. Protonmail has been a solid middle ground for me coming from Gmail. Some accounts I simply can't change the email so those are going to stay forwarded for now.

The biggest outlay so far was switching from Evernote to Joplin, as I had over 12 years of history (270 notebooks, 12,000 notes). It took me something like 4 full days of effort but feels glorious now that it's done.

[–] FlyboyM619@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Preparing to talk with my boss about my pay and seeing if there's a 5 year plan for our department. Also brushing off the old resume/LinkedIn in case needed.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

Good luck!

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago

Last couple of weeks has been preparing for a PEN test. I'm so tired of finding things that my predecessor didn't do.

[–] pete@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I got a bunch of heads this year to double our team footprint.

I'm using those guys to bring 1mm/month of aws cost back onsite into a kubernetes cluster as well as moving existing on prem services into the same kubernetes and a few other clusters.

I think we've decided the sweet spot is that we build fast with AWS and bring the winners home to lower our opex. Its a relatively nuanced look at how we build and support our products.

So, I've got a few heads on managing legacy, a couple on migrating legacy to on prem k8s, a couple on just managing k8s and physical host lifecycle.

And I'm just kinda floating just helping people out as needed. And I'm not a manager so I have full ability for direction setting and task creation and I don't have to do any reviews or expense reports.

So as a systems eng, this is the best gig I've had in 15 years.

[–] littlewonder@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Hating my current job, that was once the job of four people, with the passion of a thousand suns while I wait for my final offer letter after I countered. A job that pays more and has a set list of responsibilities and allows for creativity.

It's like the worst case of senioritis I've ever had.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 4 points 1 year ago

Playing with Nix

[–] themachine@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Kubernetes in my spare time, azure in my work time.

And by spare time I mean time not spent working for pay or playing baulders gate 3.

[–] bender@insaneutopia.com 3 points 1 year ago

Living the dream brother.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Migrating Bareos Backups to a new storage node.

[–] nomecks@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I moved into presales, so now I pretty much eat lunch and do solution architect certs for a living.

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 1 points 1 year ago

Sitting through meeting after meeting about compliance.

[–] Samophlange@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Brushing up on my ospf and some vtp testing in my lab.

[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nifi, kafka, waiting on management to figure out what they want. Slowly turning into a data engineer, not sure I like it to be honest.