Coming Home

After spending the last 3 or so as a network engineer I just got a promotion and am coming home to be a server guys again! 3 years ago I started working in education and have been doing network design and troubleshooting as well as firewall and content filtering. There were two Sr spots that opened a little while ago. One for LAN (servers/endpoints) and one for WAN (networking). I applied for both and was very up front that I have always been a server guy first and a networking guy 2nd, but am just as comfortable doing either.

I officially start next month but I will be following the guy I am replacing a few days a week this month before I completely assume their role. I am just so excited to get back to what I know I am really good at.

In fact, one of the questions that they asked about was if I knew what PowerShell was and how to use it. I laughed a little and told them that it is so engrained into my life that I used it that day to figure out where to go to lunch (get-random $choices). But then I explained that I have written PoSH scripts to take backups of ~100 content filters we have, send a report on the success/failures and another to program our networking equipment because the solution we had wasn't working well.

Soon I'll be cursing PoSH and AD while I hit my head on the wall trying to figure out why some GPO isn't working and I couldn't be happier. I am, once again, home.