MystikIncarnate @ MystikIncarnate @lemmy.ca

Some IT guy, IDK.

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Considering I've been doing this stuff for over a decade and have met less than a handful of people with the same technical expertise as I have, and I haven't met anyone that's more skilled... I'm pretty sure I should be making at least 6 figures.... Nobody will pay that much for what I do.

I'm not trying to brag or anything. It's just that I keep ending up in the position of having to educate everyone around me on how things actually work, and how to fix them. I spend more time in the bowels of Windows operating systems that the registry makes sense to me.

My understanding of the message in the OP is that phone companies are making phones suck after 2 years using updates that make the phone slower, etc.

.... Y'know, like Apple did a few years back.

Also, cats.

I still do this.

I also pulled the little contact pads off of the back of the Netflix button and the other pairs services buttons that are a fixture on my remote that I don't use. I kept accidentally hitting them and it would rip me out of whatever content I was watching and send me to a service I didn't subscribe to.

Not anymore.

I'm much the same.

I can't leave my geographic area for very good reasons, and I will in IT support. I'm experienced enough to be a "senior" support tech. But the average going rate in my area for my job is about 60k/yr. That sounds great until I tell you that I'm in Canada and that's Canadian dollars, which is about 43k/yr USD.

The state of the market here is embarrassing and I can't find jobs hiring for remote workers, or anything local enough that I could feasibly commute, that pays enough for it to be worth it to even apply.

If I do find a posting that's close it's a 1.5hr commute away and pays about the same as my current work from home gig.... Despite the toxicity, why would I take a job I need to spend an additional 3+ hours in a car to do the same work, with potentially the same toxicity, for the same pay?

I fucking hate everything.

All of these have been true at every point.

It depends on where you are in your life's journey, which one you hear.

That's fair.

Laundering snap into cash seems like an enforcement problem.

But then again, we don't want more cops... So I'm a bit split on it.

It's one of those rare 5 cylinder in-line engines with a 3.6L displacement.

Oooooooo

It's always good for the shareholders, as long as they can monetize it

Is this a whataboutism?

Because this seems like a whataboutism.

I hope that's enough...

Like I said, good luck

"Should" is doing some serious work in your last statement.

As someone with ~72 TB of raw storage.... Heh. Good luck.

Both for this and for healthcare.

The nurses are struggling to get a fair deal while somehow the billions a year put into healthcare goes where exactly?

Not to the front line staff, I'll tell you that much.

And I get it, materials and equipment isn't cheap but between nurses salaries and material costs, and the occasional multi-million dollar piece of equipment.... I just don't see where it's all being spent. Between the middle and upper management, there needs to be an overhaul.

Education on every level isn't dissimilar.

Hell, most government services need a review, at the very least.

Oh no, anyways.

I'm really disliking this episode of black mirror.

Yes. This was it for me. I spent enough time in traffic that I just memorized which car was which.

If I go out driving now, which is fairly rare, I'm always going, I don't recognize that car, what is it ??

And the cycle continues.

Yup. I agree. I was just checking to see if that was the case.

I was certainly hoping it was, but I wanted to see what other people's experiences have been.

Thanks for the conversation.

Oooh. That version. I forgot they called that basic 2.0

Alright.

One of us.