Posts Tagged ‘job’
November 27th, 2010 | 
Author: Sorry about the lack of the posting. I have switched jobs and the perfect storm hit us. Due to a power outage (well,multiple outages) from Lincoln Electric System (http://les.com) we lost a main switch, the firewall configuration, and dhcp configuration. I haven’t logged in to a Cisco device in many years and never in the depth I have had to in the past month.
Things I am working on:
- Jumping in to Cisco head first
- More with Splunk
- Setting up MPLS between multiple site, and a couple of co-locations
- More in to security
- Guest Posters
Posted in Fun, work | 
Tags: cisco, co-locaton, colo, job, network, new, perfect, post, securityguest, sorry, splunk, storm | 
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It is that time again for me. On-call at where I work means little sleep and a lot of work. The first wasn’t too bad. I stayed busy during the day. I left for home (around an hour drive) and didn’t even make it out of town and had to turn around. Worked till 7:30pm and then headed home. Got paged when I was about 15 minutes from my house. Got home and fired up the laptop. I was on that call until 2am. Went to bed and woke up at 5:45am like I normally do. Off to work at 6:50am. Work today has been constant. The bad part is that this is a holiday weekend so there will be no level 1 support fielding the easy calls. This also means that I will get every page this weekend. Could be worse, could be a lot worse.
There is something about on call that is fun. All day long you have that level of anticipation of when the next page is coming. Then when you get the page what is the issue. You got pressure to get it fixed fast as the company could be loosing money by the minute. That rush can be awesome. The lack of family time and sleep is not any fun, but that is the price of the job.