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I was doing $180/week for my health insurance when I was doing a contract to hire job via a middleman company. It was 100% just a "gently caress you for making it a law that we have to provide healthcare" type plan.
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The Fool posted:I pay something like $700/month for healthcare Someone always has it worse, eh?
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Blurb3947 posted:Not to mention probably a pretty high deductible, yeah? American healthcare is such a scam and I'm still surprised people haven't revolted because of it. The cost of groceries seems to be of higher concern to them lol US healthcare is the modern mob racket, "You increase your prices so we get bigger discounts and force people to keep paying health insurance" is some sketch math.
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the only people who complain about groceries and gas at my job are the bosses makes me think
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Have you SEEN the prices at Whole Foods recently?!?!? BIDEN!!!!!!
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every time I get a pay stub I thank the stars that my contributions for medical/vision/dental look like this: medical: 0.00 vision: 0.00 dental: 0.00
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I'm also paying state income tax for the first time ever now and that was a whole big chunk
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The Fool posted:I'm also paying state income tax for the first time ever now and that was a whole big chunk You must be raking in cash then?  Raymond T. Racing posted:every time I get a pay stub I thank the stars that my contributions for medical/vision/dental look like this: Same. There's a $300ish deductible for GP visits and some medication, otherwise it's all covered by the  tax.
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Wibla posted:You must be raking in cash then? Mine surprisingly enough is not tax
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The Fool posted:I'm also paying state income tax for the first time ever now and that was a whole big chunk I'm guessing you just left texas? I hope you didn't move to ohio, cuz they got city tax bullshit too. FWIW, in a lot of states if you only owe for the period of time you existed in the state, so if you moved in the last 3 months of the year or something you might not owe much/anything to one or both. I got stupidly lucky since I spent 6 months in two different states many years ago, and didn't have to pay either anything. Was a very small win.
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When I quit my last job, my wife and I just bought insurance through the state marketplace. It's been pretty solid for us. Even after I got hired at this gig, we opted to keep it since my new employers offerings weren't awful but not great either. It's 800 dollars a month but the deductible is reasonable, and my wife makes gently caress you money as a contract veterinarian, so I fully realize we're the outliers. Though we're moving to Canada or the UK sometime in the next few years, so  Anyways had that meeting, and everyone being let go was surprisingly positive about it. I guess they've kinda known for awhile they were gonna be short timers sooner or later, so the meeting was less wallowing and more "what can we get done over the next two months?" Upside is it seems I am definitely getting fast tracked for a network role. Which, cool. I don't mind help desk at this place, but I wasn't really looking forward to idling in this role for another year or two before I could move into a networking role here or elsewhere. Guess I'll get to put my CCNA to good use sooner than I expected.
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FISHMANPET posted:My motto is that I'll never do anything twice. The first time I'll do it manually in the GUI or whatever, to understand what it is I'm actually doing. The second time I'll automate it in some way. Often times it's as simple as writing a small script to accomplish the task. For me I think the big thing is knowing how to recognize what data can be easily represented in a structured format and what repeatable operations can be done on each item in the set. Basically any automation you are going to do is going to rely on either having or generating that data. For lack of a better term, I think of it as "finding handles." johnny park posted:Maybe I'm confused. Is all automation considered devops? There is absolutely no universally accepted definition of "devops" so it means whatever the person saying it wants it to mean, which is frequently different from what the person hearing it thinks that person means.
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That would certainly explain why it seems so hard to google the meaning of devops
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To be fair googling anything with the current state of search engines is hard
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Rawrbomb posted:I'm guessing you just left texas? I hope you didn't move to ohio, cuz they got city tax bullshit too. FWIW, in a lot of states if you only owe for the period of time you existed in the state, so if you moved in the last 3 months of the year or something you might not owe much/anything to one or both. I got stupidly lucky since I spent 6 months in two different states many years ago, and didn't have to pay either anything. Was a very small win. texas isn't even the biggest state with no income tax
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johnny park posted:Maybe I'm confused. Is all automation considered devops? DevOps is part of the Zombo.com revolution.
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The Fool posted:texas isn't even the biggest state with no income tax Huh? Size wise or population?
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Not everything is bigger in Texas! (Alaska)
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jaegerx posted:Huh? Size wise or population? square miles ie got it
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Good news! An opportunity to help a colleague learn to automate updating 200 PCs! Bad news! The vendor still uses HOST files so that's what we're updating!
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Just got freed from posting jail, to say that I'm going dual 32" monitors this weekend and it'll be 5' of screens surrounding me. Can't wait
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Die in a fire helm
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jaegerx posted:Die in a fire helm Sorry I know it's intimidating having monitors wider than you are tall
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tokin opposition posted:Sorry I know it's intimidating having monitors wider than you are tall You know I rock a 49in 5k ultra wide right? with a 16in m1 Mac, I will always be bigger than you.
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64 > 49 anyway i'm mad i have to order longer cables to make it work
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mllaneza posted:Good news! An opportunity to help a colleague learn to automate updating 200 PCs! Why? Just because that's what the vendor is recommending doesn't mean you can't roll whatever it is to your private DNS. Last time this came up for me we noped out of that.
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tokin opposition posted:64 > 49 5k > whatever yours are.
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jaegerx posted:5k > whatever yours are. 8k pixels combined  e: just realized this might end up being wider than my desk. oh well
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tokin opposition posted:8k pixels combined my desk is bigger than yours
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that's probably true, new desk is next on the stupid computer expenses list. might get work to chip in
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So I got AZ-104 in August. I'm moving to the DC area in the spring so I haven't looked for any jobs since I would have to do it anyway at a known time. I have 10 years of experience in healthcare desktop IT. Would I be able to get a job using Azure? I'm really concerned because the job market gets more rigid by the year and since I haven't done The Thing as a job (indeed, as a service), I'm not qualified to do The Thing and never will be. Should I look into contracts or MSPs or something like that? I'm used to being a W2 FTE so doing contract work would be something totally new for me.
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I prefer an ultrawide or super ultrawide versus two monitors. I always hated having one be offset or having the bezels straight in front of me. There's been a few times where I've used 3 monitors, but nah, not for home.
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skooma512 posted:So I got AZ-104 in August. I'm moving to the DC area in the spring so I haven't looked for any jobs since I would have to do it anyway at a known time. To answer your question, yes. If you've been in the field for 10 years, I think you could get a job using Azure. With how much difficulty is harder to predict. How much have you used Azure? Do you have a lab that you play around with? Did you do anything at your current job that you could link to things from your AZ-104? What did you do at your current job? Anything you could use to leverage into a step up or stepping stone? Anything M365/Intune? As far as the MSP world goes, you might end up touching a lot. You might get a chance to do things you haven't done before. Was all 10 years at the same place? If so, an MSP might be a decent way to get experience working with a bunch of different networks. They do suck to work for, though. There was a lot of words written about this sort of thing in the last few pages, not sure if you saw them or not. Might be worth a read if not.
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Internet Explorer posted:To answer your question, yes. If you've been in the field for 10 years, I think you could get a job using Azure. With how much difficulty is harder to predict. How much have you used Azure? Do you have a lab that you play around with? Did you do anything at your current job that you could link to things from your AZ-104? What did you do at your current job? Anything you could use to leverage into a step up or stepping stone? Anything M365/Intune? I have my subscription with a SQL server I stood up to hold my Spotify GDPR dump so I could throw queries at it. That was fun and beyond even the 104 material. Still not anything close to a real environment. We actually use Azure and 365 at my current job, and I reached out to an Azure person after a presentation where they specifically offered mentoring... they did not reply, nor did the person who ran the meeting when I asked if I even had the right person. So, we use it, but I have no access to any of the backend, so it doesn't matter and doesn't count for anything. I'll look for that post.
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Internet Explorer posted:I prefer an ultrawide or super ultrawide versus two monitors. I always hated having one be offset or having the bezels straight in front of me. There's been a few times where I've used 3 monitors, but nah, not for home. I love my triple monitor setup at home. 1440p 27" in the center, two 1080p 24"s on either side. Not sure how I would cope with only 2 monitors.
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FISHMANPET posted:I love my triple monitor setup at home. 1440p 27" in the center, two 1080p 24"s on either side. Not sure how I would cope with only 2 monitors. Where are your crts?
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You only need a laptop and a monitor, triple and double monitor setups are weird. just plug a monitor into your laptop and use a Ipad for slack with universal control.
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jaegerx posted:You only need a laptop and a monitor, triple and double monitor setups are weird. just plug a monitor into your laptop and use a Ipad for slack with universal control. Laptop monitors are too small and I dislike the lack of pixels.
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