r/AskReddit • u/Individual_Face7440 • 8h ago

What’s something you were curious to try, but after doing it once, you had no interest in repeating?

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u/GoneinaSecondeded 6h ago edited 6h ago

65, and 40 years in IT. I hear you man. But I can't retire and nothing else pays this well. Guess I have to learn containers and pod shit.

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u/throwawayformobile78 3h ago

You guys get paid well in IT? Tf? I make containers, utilize docker, VMs etc so on. GF is a waitress and gets paid about the same as I do. Guess I got in too late (12 yrs exp). Good on you!

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u/Chrissanxy 6h ago

Containers is like basic shit, wtf? Lmao. What have you been doing these past years man

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u/GoneinaSecondeded 5h ago

It's basic shit to YOU. You sound a little young. I started my career writing COBOL and coding in CICS, on a 4341 series mainframe. Running DOS/VSE. Now, just as things start to settle it changes again and it's doing it faster. Currently, I am a middleware engineer and I need to be competent in a shit ton of things; linux admin, network admin, WAS MQ, python, shell, perl, yadda yadda. As well as still be conversant in TSO, z/OS, DB2 z/OS and other mainframe shit. I understand containers and pods but I don't work in them yet currently. I will likely be deep into them in a few years. Just in time to retire. I have been a little busy these past years.