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This is moreso on a comment on the nature of those sharing there salaries that come from "poverty"

I believe that even tho it may SEEM like the majority of very high income earners or at least a large portion are from low income families, statistically, it's not true. Most of those who become part of the 1% were already part of a 1% family prior, therefore having a ton of money is not something that they need to "show off to Internet strangers" so to speak.

For example, if you've only driven Mercedes, bmw, and Lexus cars your whole life because your daddy got you one, when you go buy one your self with your nepo job, it's just not out of the ordinary, therefore you don't feel a strong urge to brag to others because well, your friends and social group already have one and possibly something better.

So I would say that it's not actually normal for most poverty kids to grow up to earn 500k-1mil annually either via business profits or salary, but lurking this shb might make you feel otherwise.

You show me a paystub with 100k on it right and I-....oh.

Yeah Denton is great but is FAR from Dallas if that's where you have to commute to, so don't do it unless you like driving.

I always found Irving being a sweet spot for it's location. It's close to the airport, it's not too far from Dallas, has a lot of amenities, and rent is not too bad.

If you want to save some money on rent but add to a commute, starting going further north like euless, or Lewisville.

I did consider grand prairie, but I don't like the area. It gets really crowded when there are events considering it's right next to Arlington which has the 2 stadiums and six flags.

I can tell you right now. I lived in Irving in 2023 and you can live in the Las Colinas/valley ranch area (the more wealthier/nicer areas) for about 1700/month for a 800-900sqft apartment usually with in unit laundry and pretty nice gyms.

This might sound expensive, but the reason I choose this area is it's just an overall better experience. Irving that is closer to the airport sucks and there's more beggars/homeless.

You could save a few hundred a month if you want a lower quality apartment and live there, but you really probably won't like it.

Utilities and other bills like Internet might add up to around $200 extra a month.

So for all your necessary bills you might spend around 1900/month.

Now, idk if your tax situation will change, but if it does, that saves you state income tax, so a lot of times you actually come out on top in extra cash to spend.

When I lived there I made 80k a year and lived comfortably and usually ended up with being able to save over $1000 in saving/Roth IRA/etc per month.

Now, I would recommend you get a toll tag. It will save you so much time, although tolls suck. I pay around 8/day for my commute.

Pm me if you have any other questions.

Yeah, you're right. I guess it's a little disingenuous to put a sign out that say "adopt me" then. Also, in many shelters they often wave the fees due to over capacity.

This was a Petland store in Texas.

Hopefully it supports tftp. In unfortunate situations xmodem is your only choice.

Recommendation would be find the smallest possible image for your switch, then load that and upgrade later.

Literally a few MBs can save hours lol

Oh I didn't know this. I most likely am going to adopt from a shelter though when I can (when I have a house).

I used to work at one and seeing all the animals and the conditions alot of them are brought in originally, it feels wrong to ignore them. Especially the older ones.

And to add, that would be true seniors and not people with 2 years experience and their title was senior.

Seniors are typically those with 5+ years experience minimum. Principal and architects are 10+

Well she has her family who lives close by which we visit them multiple times a week. She has a sister who has 2 children of her own who absolutely can't wait to have playdates. She has a community of neighbors that we see regularly and even extended family (cousins, uncles, aunts) that visit regularly too.

She has a group of friends she still sees on a regular basis, and I even rope her into going out with me when I visit with my work friends.

Over a 3 years ago she told me she would move across the country and live with me, and I firmly told her no. The community of people she lives with are going to be critical to her well being. I asked her the other day if she thinks that she could have moved. She told me she realizes now that she could not have

I am a bit weird. I don't need that community as much as I'm much more self sustainable being an introvert and find myself being much more connected to my side projects.

Long story short, yes, had she moved across the country to live with me, I would have approached this much differently, but I was the one who packed my bags and moved to her.

While you have valid points, I don't think our situation quite mimics yours over a decade ago.

Thanks for the input though and will take her thoughts with more insight iff it comes up since you've shared your experience.

Last thing, the main times she gets bored would be the 2 or 3 days a week where she won't visit a friend or won't have a family visit to meet or visit. One of the main things that hold her back from say visiting a friend or family member, is often they can't afford to go out, and while I tell her it's not a big deal to pay for them, $30-50 3-5 times a week adds up.

Of course. I told her that if I can guarantee money is not an issue would you still feel the need to work? I asked her if she enjoys the rush hour traffic, the rude customers, and the feeling of being helpless to the requests of your boss?

I asked her if she likes having to wake up at 7am, the midday crash, and the feeling of exhaustion at the end of the day.

She told me no. She was like, I guess I just like the idea of something to do, but the only thing she could remember was that she used to work.

I then went on and continue to walk down a path of helping her discover hobbies and interests. I gave her my credit card and said go out and find something you want to do and if you think you wanna start knitting, go buy a knitting kit.

If you think you wanna start cooking, go buy the ingredients needed.

I only asked that she doesn't spend a ton of money and keep it within reason hahaha.

So far, she continues to look all while we currently have more arts and craft materials than I know what to do with. We have tons of markers, pens, pencils, clay, watercolors and an art easel that will likely never be used.

I found my old Pokemon cards and she tells me she could try to sell them for me and really tried to pursue this idea, but I said its not necessary. I'd rather keep them than the few hundred you could sell them for.

I think with her coming from a poorer family, along with the way society is built today, if you're not doing something that generates money, you feel as if it's a waste of time.

I do think that when she gives birth and has a child to care for, it will make her realize that she's rather spend time with her child than giving it to some employer.

No, an employer is not the only way to find a purpose. But at the moment, with the current situation we live in, it's the only way for the majority of people to find some resemblance of purpose.

If many of us were willing to forego some of the luxury items we have today, we could return to a pre industrial way of living. The reality is, most of us don't want that. We want the comforts of industrial. We like to go to the grocery store and buy all of our food in one trip.

We like to turn the water handle and have clean drinking water (debatable) come out.

We like to be able to entertain ourselves by clicking a few buttons and scrolling endlessly.

We like to be to live our lives with our guards down and not have to worry about surviving on a primal level.

Prior to large civilizations, men made sacrifices to feed and protect their families while women made sacrifices to ensure there children were raised properly.

Nowadays men and women don't do the same things as they did 500 years ago, but the thing that remains constant is we're still sacrificing our time and efforts to pursue something.

Unfortunately for many of us those sacrifices are not worth the rewards. I.e. working a min wage job to have a shitty apartment to live in.

Do you think 500 years ago, the man whonhaf 10 children, 8 of which died before the age of 3 really thought, wow, my life is perfect?

Or even 1 years ago, the man who returned from the coal mine who had black lung really thought, wow, at least I can provide for my family?

Yes, employment is not a good solution for us to find meaning.

One thing I do admire about religious communities is the vary strong sense of communal activities. There is a birthday party every other week, a cookout, and a community event

All the same people show up, and if someone needs help they all pitch in.

I wonder if we rebuilt these communities would our lives begin to feel less bleak? Because before I integrated into one of these communities I never talked to any of my neighbors, kept my work friends as work friends.

Just a thought

Agreed. I feel Fortunate that my career is within a field I find passion in and enjoy talking about outside of work (when necessary)..

I find myself willingly upskilling myself because I want to learn and the extra money and career opportunities happen to be a benefit.

I find myself to be incredibly fortunate that it even allows me to live a mostly non financially stressful life.

How to solve the problem for the 80-90% who don't share the same feelings? Idk really. I think it's actually not solvable in a humane way IMHO.

Think of the books like a brave new world. Suffering is part of the human experience and in order to suffer you need to sacrifice. While the source of suffering will change, what will always remain is our desperate need to experience it if we're to live a meaningful life. So if we're not sacrificing we're not suffering, if we're not suffering we're not living a life worth living.

She's later in her pregnancy (late 2nd tri) and the majority of jobs she would apply for would have a physical aspect to it such as standing/walking for a long period of time, lifting things.

She always complains about back pain when we go out or when we try to cook together, be it not a lot, but still comments here and there.

I don't think being forced to stand would be a good ide even if she thinks she can handle it.. I don't think it would be harmful necessarily but very uncomfortable. And for a few hundred dollars a week. Its not a tradeoff I want to make with her well being when it's absolutely not necessary.

Yeah, my wife currently is a stay at home wife while we're expecting our first born. Every day she wakes up when she wants, has the freedom to pursue what she wants (within reason of course..we're not rich).

Here's the thing, she is bored most days. She tells me she doesn't know what to do and is constantly searching for a hobby to partake in, which I try to happily support be it painting, clay sculpting, etc.

She tells me that she could just go to work in a part time job while she still active and has mobility. I tell her it's not worth the extra couple hundred dollars we'd get and it would just put more stress on her and the baby.

Pretty much without some sort of real obligation, she doesn't know what to do.

Humans are weird like that. I don't think we were ever meant to sit around and do nothing. That's why watching Netflix for 8 hours feels gross, especially if you do it multiple days a week. We were always meant to pursue something.

I don't think the majority of people's hobbies alone could fulfill that purpose unless they were getting compensated for it. But then that just becomes a job, maybe a more fulfilling job, but it often leads to a situation where you're no longer passionate about the craft and more about the money. See YouTubers today with their scams, click bait, and questionable sponsors. They become sellouts and lose integrity for that next paycheck.

Basically, humans need purpose, and this fantasy of waking up with no agenda is not actually a purpose for almost everyone and will only lead to a lack of meaning in ones life more often than not

One reason why the CCNA is so dominant and is the gold standard is because the vastness of the exam. It doesn't teach you Cisco necessarily. It teaches you actual practical networking with an emphasis on Cisco. Which other exams do the opposite. They teach you the vendor first then the fundamentals.

Another thing is after you start to use other vendors like arista, hpe, dell, ruckus, you start to notice something....their syntax is based in Cisco iOS.

So once you know Cisco, you are able to transition to other vendors.

Basically, learning Cisco is going to be your best use of time if you want to become as vendor neutral as possible, believe it or not.

And finally, large companies tend to use Cisco too. I feel like Cisco is a lot like VMware. While you see a lot of companies moving from VMware to proxmox, VMware is not targeting the small companies anymore. They realized they don't make money supporting these small companies, and the big money is the large multi million dollar contracts, so they price them out .

In turn, the training for Cisco is turning more to corporate training and not public.

LinkedIn.

Make it as cringey and self promoting as possible. Include all the buzzwords and overinflate your skills. Do not be humble.

Of course be sure to not outright lie as you will likely be asked during a technical interview.

Then, set your profile as "open to work". Put your profile location in the biggest city close to you (within reason). For example, if I live Grapevine, I would put Dallas. (15 minute drive)

Finally, wait about 2-3 weeks while continuing to apply and your inbox will be full.

Whenever a recuruiter asks for you resume, ask for the job description first. Modify your resume to match that job description.

This strategy has landed me with interviews and requests for interviews for major Fortune 50 companies, faang companies, etc.

Recruiters are somewhat clueless and only know how to match based on loose buzzwords. For example someone asked me...so what's your experience with TCP.

Good luck.

Hmmm while I agree with some points. I can speak a bit on that. I don't think, for network engineers specifically, that they can be offshored as easily.

I live in the DFW area and have gotten more than 100 recruiters reaching out to me in the past 2 months with probably 80% (or more) requiring some sort of hybrid or full onsite requirement.

The main reason being is networking is a bit different than other IT jobs in that it requires you to physically be there, especially if You're helping deploy a new DC.

Often you'll need to work with contractors, help rack equipment, and often do physical troubleshooting.

While you can get away with smart hands and network techs, this is usually after the deployment where You're in the maintenance phase.

For this, I don't think a lot of network engineers can be offshored due to the nature of the job.

Now, do i feel like I deserve 150k for all aspects of my job, especially when it's me plugging a cable in to a terminal server? Probably not. But there does seem to be a lack of solid network engineers for some reason. I've been blown away by how incompetent some of the people I've interviewed and they claim to be "senior or principal".

I think it would be more interesting if you added that there is police lights and sirens outside.

I'm just playing investigator here. But my guess is he made some comments during the company wide meeting that may or may not have not been well received. Or maybe he wasn't listening during the meeting or not taking it serious i.e. trying to talk to them while the meeting was playing.

I know the first time I was with a coworker on a new job I was a bit shocked how little attention he actually gave to the quarterly meeting. Talking over them (while on mute) and although I didn't think much of it, maybe a manager thinks otherwise.

Basically it seems like he might have not been on his "best behavior".

Just a guess

First question, let's assume you segmented your network off properly with vlans, what is your lease time for your devices? Did it change?

We had an issue with DHCP requests causing a cpu spike on some 3750s. Granted the 3750s service upwards of 5000 devices.

What happened was the lease time was shortened to 1 hr to test out a new port based DHCP rollout. What happened was it was changed in all the vlans. So we ended up increasing our normal DHCP traffic dramatically across the board.

For the most part, it was okay, but if the 3750 began to struggle and drop packets, it ended up amplifying the problem as even more devices would miss their DHCP request, thus sending out more traffic.

Not saying this is the issue, but if possible try to capture the cpu processes if it happens again.

I'm not sure if SNMP can capture this.

This is true. If Bgp is an option they could simply send you a default route or you could filter out everything except that default route and in turn, you advertise whatever you need to advertise to the Internet. You will probably need to obtain a public asn or ask your provider for a private one.

I just don't see a reason why, (unless you're gonna be a. Transit link) you would need the public Internet routing table on your devices.

Why do they prefer you do VRRP? I'm just curious but is BGP not an option?

Maybe I don't deal with Internet edge stuff enough, but I've never been asked to run VRRP for my service provider.