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Have you gotten rid of your server monitoring system? Do you wish that you could? I am not going to mention any particular monitoring system because all of them seem to suck big time in my experience. Here is a case in point. Yesterday morning, I noticed some alerts came in via email. Of...

I am a system administrator. I work on computers. I happen to do that work for a hospital organization and rarely leave my cubicle. I don't deal with patients or sick people. But yesterday, our manager told us he wants us all to get flu shots. Anyone got any suggestions on how to get out of...

I am pretty determined to get an apprenticeship at the Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru. My hope is that I will eventually learn to serve ayahuasca and have a career serving ayahuasca and other plant medicines of the Amazon. That means I will leave IT. One of their programs is six weeks, and I don't...

Good IT jobs aren't always easy to find. But there are always good ones at colleges and universities. Over the years, I've interviewed for lots and lots of jobs at colleges and universities. I've never gotten one though. I never went to college, and I wonder if that could be the issue. In my...

I'm in the midst of looking for a job while employed. Everybody seems to tell me that "it's easier to find a job when you have a job." I don't know if anyone has ever done a study on this. People without jobs get hired all the time. And then there is the unfortunately reality that everybody...

My supervisor is a really smart guy and pretty decent guy. However, he has a habit of starting conversations which go on far too long. And these conversations have NOTHING to do with my work. He talks about reality television, current events, his college classes, entertainment, taxes, and...