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My name is Jason, I own a low voltage business located in California and Arizona. I’m looking to find more contacts and network with anyone looking for top-tier low voltage installations.

My company is licensed, bonded, and insured. I have an active CR-67 license through the state of Arizona.
We provide top-tier low voltage installations whether you’re looking for a completely new install, building on an existing install, or relocating. I will be able to provide you with competitive pricing and industry leading quality.
Some services we offer are:

CAT6, Fiber, Cameras, WiFi, TV’s, Wiring for cubicles, Server room buildouts, Ladder rack installation, Precise dressing and cable suspension.

We have done work for Shea properties, Warner Bros, Quest Nutrition, Square Enix, Morongo Casino, and more…

Feel free to reach me at 951-741-7480. Thanks.

It's been 3+ years in this software industry, and I've had hands-on experience on various web dev frameworks such as RoR, React, Node, Next..

Now, I feel there's an urge to switch to a core language - considering ongoing Ai trends, is it a good decision to hop on Python or should focus on the long term core among Java/ C/ C++ etc.

Hi everyone,

I’m 35 years old and working in IT/software, so I sit for long hours daily. For the past 8 months I’ve been suffering from severe lower back pain and stiffness. Recently I got an MRI done and the impression says:

• L4-L5 left foraminal annular tear with bilateral foraminal disc protrusion causing foraminal narrowing and indenting exiting nerve roots.
• L5-S1 right subarticular disc extrusion with annular tear causing foraminal narrowing and indenting right traversing nerve roots.

Symptoms:

• Severe lower back pain and stiffness
• Pain increases with prolonged sitting
• Morning stiffness
• Tightness in lower back/buttock area
• Walking actually gives me some relief
• No major numbness or leg weakness currently

I consulted a neurosurgeon. Currently prescribed:

• Gabapin NT 300 at night for 1 month
• Etoshine MR for 3 days

Doctor also advised no physiotherapy for now.

I’m trying to understand recovery better from people who had similar MRI findings and improved without surgery.

I wanted to ask:

1. Did anyone recover from similar disc protrusion/extrusion and annular tear?
2. How long did recovery realistically take?
3. What helped the most:
   • walking?
   • posture correction?
   • McKenzie exercises?
   • core strengthening?
   • weight loss?
4. What activities made symptoms worse for you?
5. How did you manage long office sitting?
6. Did anyone avoid surgery successfully?
7. How long did it take before sitting became comfortable again?

I’d really appreciate hearing real recovery experiences because chronic back pain for 8 months has been mentally exhausting.

Thanks in advance.

A $500k CMDB initiative get shelved because 'it was too hard to maintain.' No. The problem was lack of governance and ownership. A CMDB isn't a one-time project—it's foundational infrastructure for knowing what you own, who owns it, and how it relates. Every major incident I've seen has involved 'we didn't know that service depended on THAT.' That's a CMDB discipline problem.

So when dealing with remediating Infrastructure SW Assets at EOL-EOS, is it better to hold SW Product Owners or the consumers of the Infrastructure accountable? I have an opinion, but interested in what others feel is right.

Seriously, I've worked in 4 different organizations and the story is always the same: ITSM is seen as 'overhead' or 'process bloat' until a critical incident exposes how chaotic the IT operations actually are. No change management, no incident tracking, no CMDB—just heroes fighting fires. Then wonder why there are numbs outages a year.

managing separate api keys is a headache if you care about cost control. if your agent workflows rely on different billing across different providers, you might find it inconvenient to monitor your usage.
We run a few automated agents for market research and content monitoring. The reality of this work is that usage is super bursty. When we do a deep dive on a competitor, token consumption spikes and we burn through a ton of context windows using heavy synthesis models. but the next week? we might just be running a tiny background job doing cheap text deduplication.
Under our old setup we maintained direct accounts with OpenAI, Anthropic, and some open-source stuff. The real issue was the absolute lack of monitoring. finance would ask for a projected budget, and we couldn't give one because tracking token burn across three different dashboards is impossible. You end up acting like an accountant instead of a developer, trying to merge usage exports just to figure out if a new scraping agent is actually profitable.
The fix wasn't rewriting prompts, it was shifting to a unified pay-as-you-go gateway. I'm talking about pure metered usage. you just pay for exactly the fractions of a cent the agents consume at runtime.
The biggest advantage has been the backend dashboard. having all your usage logs and cost metrics in one single place makes cost planning incredibly straightforward. If a cheaper open-source model drops, i don't have to guess if it's saving us money. I just change one string in the config, run it, and check the dashboard later to see the exact cost difference
We use zenmux and portkey to handle this routing now, and suddenly we can see exactly which workflow is burning money and optimize it instantly.
how are you guys monitoring agent costs across different models without losing your mind?

I've been working with an MSP in south Jersey for about 2 years now and I'm curious about how it's been for other companies. When I started, I didn't know anything about advanced networking protocols, hypervisor management, server management, backup architecture, etc. But these were all vital skills that I would need to be a productive member of the team. A colleague of mine who is around my age (23) experienced the same thing and he has a bachelors in Comp. Science.

Since the rise in popularity of LLMs I haven't heard much about the education->entry-level skill gap but I know it still exists. For me the skill gap was to be expected because I came in from an electrical background so I wasn't familiar with much beyond layer 1. But, like I said, my colleague went through four years of school to discover that what he learned wasn't applicable to an entry-level position at an MSP.

I'm curious to see if the shortcomings I've seen in my company are similar to what's been experienced across the board.

What's been your experience? What are some foundational skills that you wish more entry-level techs had? Technical or soft

Can anyone share approximate pricing ?

I have tried to contact sales 2 times already and have not got a reply 😞

Wondering how is the market to apply for a contract role as getting a perm role would be difficult due to my age.

I am experienced SWE with decent Java skills.
Planning to update myself in AI/ML skills

Please give some recommendation and what else can I do to get a contract

r/cscareersquestions I am 3 course student at Heriot-Watt university, BSc Software engineering. It is already last year left. I wanna find job before graduation or at least have portfolio. I think i should choose IT field and learn some courses and make projects. But I am worried about how to find job. I am from Kazakhstan and definitely will work there. In Kazakhstan, employers hire through connections and reputation. But I have no experience at all. I only have academic projects at university that I completed with the help of the graduate school, and I don't think they're suitable for a portfolio. My first question is: how can I find a job? My second question concerns the profession. My bachelor's degree is primarily in software development. I'm not sure what that means, and graduates of this program are CEOs. But I can't immediately become a CEO. So I want to choose a high-paying profession, study independently for 0.5-1 year, and build a portfolio. So my second question is: what are some high-paying professions where AI won't steal my job as a junior developer?