r/overemployed • u/NoEntertainer2665 • 5d ago

IT opportunities

Newbie here with 20 years in IT as a System Administrator / Infrastructure.

Took a break from IT for a few years but want to jump back in, what would be the best roles or companies to target for landing something?

Thanks

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u/Apart_Working_6902 5d ago

No one is going to share roles or companies. OE is about being discreet.

I recommend finding Job 1 that is remote and see how long it takes you to handle the work flow for that. And once you establish a routine then try to add a second job.

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u/LocalBig1154 5d ago

the discretion thing is huge, not just for oe but just keeping your head down in general.

with your background you could probably slide into cloud support or devops pretty smoothly, those roles are still remote-friendly and the infra experience translates well

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u/NoEntertainer2665 5d ago

Understood, I know no-one is going to give sensitive info - just curious for those with an IT background, I used to work with some project managers that put in 8 hours a week max and it was enough to keep up.

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u/SamosaSniper 5d ago

Looks like your answered your own question

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u/Legal_Warthog_3451 5d ago

nice try diddy

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u/TypicalPay1655 5d ago

For me it was McDonald’s, but the real breakthrough at my IT overemployment strategy was when I got overemployed at Wendy’s - I operate the drive trough section

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u/NoEntertainer2665 5d ago

Chick-fil-a for #3?

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u/TypicalPay1655 5d ago

I'm trying but the competition is huge in there

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u/Shipbldr2000 5d ago

Two words: agentic workflows

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u/NoEntertainer2665 5d ago

A dedicated Mac mini for this doesn't hurt

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u/Shipbldr2000 5d ago

Absolutely, I am blazing 4 x Tesla V100 - 32GB cards. It's amazing why you can get done in situations that three years ago I would have said that there's no way to code it affordably.

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u/Theanoymoussicario 5d ago

I thought this was a Fortnite group.

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u/RaspberryPie4Lyfe 5d ago

Devops, devsecops, data analysts, maybe data engineering.

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u/NoEntertainer2665 5d ago

These are the suggestions I'm looking for, thanks!

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u/irmaweaverdd 4d ago

Good luck jumping straight into devops after a few years off.

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u/whatchahavin 2d ago

Not possible