>be dropout retard grubhub delivery dude
>decide ive had enough of manual labor and go looking for IT job
>tell guy during interview that i don't have a diploma but plenty of experience running minecraft servers and fixing a wordpress site once
>i get in as part-time junior sysop of a little company that handles the infrastructure of a warehouse management system
>3 days a week.
>half the job is just sprint meetings and writing google docs, other half is entering commands, figuring out the atrocious design of previous operators and setting up shitty vm's.
>we pretend we're microservices but mostly rely on a few windows 2003 servers to keep our shit afloat.
>working from home, boss calls me up to "monitor the situation" as half our openstack cluster just collapsed
>sit there jacking off watching the IPMI console log as the openstack guys sit in datacenter undoing the maintenance fuckups they've caused
>thousands of blue collar logistics workers sitting on their ass cuz our servers are down
>our clients' clients are reaching out speaking of damage claims
>cumming to Animal Ear Hot Springs as i randomly copy paste shit from the compute node's IPMI boot log to Slack and type "openstack server list --all-projects" for the thousandth time today
>openstack maintainers finally fix their fuckup after an 8 hour work day
>boss thanks me for the help
being white collar is easy as fuck what the hell