at a point where when agencies/recruiters dont get straight to the point, I'll either intentionally tank the phone screening or hang up on them
i'm not doing 3+ round interviews
i'm not giving you references until I have an offer (that's how they get more names in their database)
if I have to be local to that area, then it's not a remote position, please stop doing this shyt
if i'm not working in a server room, I can work 100% remote, none of this 2 or 3 days a week shyt.
please dont contact me through linked n telling me to call you, I'm not doing the cat/mouse shyt. set a time and a date and let's talk then
So many companies will ask me what's my availability for an interview, I respond promptly and they never follow up with a set date.
trying to line up a secondary job, and MFs are real sloppy and unprofessional with how they go about things, 75% of the job hunt is wading through the minefield of bullshyt you have to put up with just to get a legit shot at an opportunity.
it's like agencies and hr dept are hiring nothing but socially uncouth paper pushers
anyways, I been refocusing on my networking skills so I can transition to a cloud role. I'm willing to take the lowball figure just to get the experience but shyt always seems to fall through the cracks.
TBH though I'm sick of doing general sysadmin shyt, I really want to do cloud based IAM security shyt or networking. I'm realizing, past a certain point, it's hard to to move up doing general sysadmin work beause of the sheer amount shyt you're expected to have experience with that be held as a strike against you. Most of 6 figure roles especially the ones paying north of 110k are usually held by cacs in their late 40's and early 50's.
stuck in the 80-95k range, most importantly the type of roles I get arent that fulfilling and I'm usually getting paid to do next to nothing. It's usually logging on and monitoring the environment, submitting a mid-day system health report and meetings if there are any.
It's allowed me to strengthen my powershell and networking knowledge. but it just baffles me how little you get to do in these sysadmin roles, and make the type of money I do ; especially in a environment that's as intensely process-driven as Finance industry.
so much deliberation before anything gets done, and when things do it's usually by a specific team that handles a specific platform, for a specific feature or software.
What I support is all that will ever support, nothing more or less. no opportunity to cross train or learn new shyt
had to vent yo
Money is good but i'm tired of the sysadmin / Infrastructure Ops world yo.
You think staying in helpdesk will stagnate your career and burn you out? shiiiet sysadmin is more of the same.
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. How Sanjay? First party isn't all that much better at times. Seems like they only look at your most recent and draw incorrect conclusions. I think I had a Unity recruiter audibly get disappointed after they contacted me about a position needing 8+ years of experience when I was barely pushing 2 at the time. Like did you even look past the first line?
I do now...
. Then some senior recruiter hits me up and tries to setup the technical interview within 2 days with no prep time 
. I told them to politely 
and havent heard from them since 
