u/kuraisu99

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After reading the books and played Witcher 1(stopped halfway and just watched the summary xD haha) and Witcher 2, mas na-appreciate ko ung Witcher 3! Hindi lang dahil nakaka relate ako sa mga characters and the worldbuilding, iba rin tlga yung quality nung game. The jump from the previous games to this is unbelievable, parang magic haha!

Can't even fathom how this game is 11 years old (I mean granted may next gen update sya, but still). While playing it, may mga mechanics and overall atmosphere akong naaalala from other games, like Red Dead 2 and Baldur's Gate 3.

30 hours palang ako and having a blast playing it! Playing it blindly as well, para mas immersive for me. Ganda ng story telling and cutscenes!

Tapos grabe rin yung price nya sa steam ngayon, like 170 pesos lang for the base game and 420 pesos with DLCs. Steal na steal, parang ako nalang nahiya mag bayad ng ganun ka-mura HAHA.

So, I'm looking to upgrade my current build to be able to run 1440p high/max settings 60fps for latest AAA games and for future AAA games.

My current specs kasi nag hihingalo na sa 1440p and sa ibang games 1080p nalang kaya.

My current specs:

CPU - r5600

GPU - 6700xt

MOBO - B550m pro

RAM - 8x2 3600hz

Budget siguro would be around 50k. Kaya ba?

With the pricing nowadays and mas lalo pang tumataas feel ko mas maganda mag stay sa am4.

Good idea rin ba na bili nalang ako another same exact ram na 8x2. Goods ba yung 8x4 or mas better pa rin 16x2?

I need your advice guys! Thank you!

Context is, I'm an L1 this is my first job (Been here for 4 years now) and my day to day tasks are to monitor our queue and emails, for any incidents or requests relating to our windows servers.

I realized when I tried to check for any job postings for windows sys ad jobs, I got slapped in the face by the fact that I'm extremely lacking in knowledge and experience to be called a Windows sys admin. (In my contract, my position is not exactly called sys admin or anything, it's just a vague general term like analyst/consultant.)

The things I do are, remote to Windows servers and check statuses like Disk, CPU, and Memory utilization. We also perform patching of the servers.We edit/configure windows servers via VMware and HP. Depending on the alert, sometimes we get server downs and unexpected reboots. We basically do the initial checking/troubleshooting, but if it's more complex we transfer it to other teams like (Storage, Backup, and Network) or if it's just windows related issue we escalate it to L3.

I wasn't able to handle Active directory since we don't have access to it or it's not really part of our job. We also don't do Office 365. I haven't experienced building a server, setting up a network, or setting up a backup. I realized that all the tasks are split up into teams, but from what I'm seeing in job postings and on this sub, this is like basic stuff for sys admins, but for 4 years I haven't learned these things on my job. (I know I should've left or up-skill, but I got comfortable and that's on me).

Now I'm getting laid-off (they are transitioning most if not all the teams to India). Now, instead of finding Sys admin related jobs I'm leaning on IT Helpdesk as this was probably what I supposed started on.

Need a little help here on what skills/certs should I focus on to open up doors for me? Maybe just to get interviews.

UPDATE:

Hi everyone, thanks for the responses! I will consider all of your suggestions and recommendations.

I would like to add more details about my job, just to give you guys ideas, since I'm not really sure if this is a normal setup.

I still do troubleshooting, especially on production servers. But we usually follow documents and approved action plans. Like for example, our customers are not able to RDP on this "Server". We'll follow a document and even google things/use AI, but to a certain extent. If it becomes more complex and need a lot of things to consider, this is when we escalate to our L3s.

For AD, we have production servers that are joined in the domain and there are domain users. But it is being managed by the IT team of that account/customer. We only managed the local users, like 90% of the time, like creating user, changing password, and giving administrator privilege.

For patching activities, we perform them ourselves either through a Tool or manually remoting the servers. If we have failed patches, again we can troubleshoot to a certain extent. If it's complex we escalate to L3.

We also have a lot of teams. I am from Windows team focusing on Windows servers only, managing them through RDP, Vmware vSphere, and HP iLO/OA. We have seperate teams like Linux, Database, Network, Backup, Application, VMware, Build Team(the ones who deploy/build servers), and AV team.

So I don't know what kind category of job I belong to, Initially thought it was Windows sysad at first. But, then I checked this sub and current job postings, a REAL sysad is so much more experienced and has variety of skills.

As the title suggests do you do it? Or, with the current IT job market is this not advisable?

How's the environment, is it 24x7? on-call? stressful?

For context I'm working as a Sysadmin, and I would like to try to change, not career, but to different tech jobs. My situation right now is our shift schedule is shifting every month, as we follow 24x7 format. I also can't appreciate how volatile everything is, one moment you're just chilling, next moment, everything is in flames.

Just curious, how Cybersec jobs are setup? Is it more or less the same?