saedrin

Hi all, seeking some independent feedback on my situation!

Age: 30

Income: ~$110k

Debt: none

Retirement: maxing 401k, maxing roth IRA, receive additional ESOP shares from company (current total of retirement ~$150k)

My current take home to savings is ~$2500 a month

I'd like to buy a new car for the first time in my life. I typically hold on to my vehicles for 5-7 years, and my current car is 18 years old and needs to be replaced. At my current income level, how bad of a decision is financing say $40k for a new car purchase?

Hey r/sysadmin,

What are you guys using for your weather boards in your NOC? We're building out some new screens and I'd like to add a US centric weather map to our display setup.

Ideally it'd be persistent and require no manual control to refresh and stay active. Fewer ads the better as well.

Thanks!

Greetings gentlemen. Currently I'm the sole IT guy for a 120 person environment, and I support everything from drop ceiling tiles to Amazon hosted essential servers. In my environment, I report directly to the owner of the entire business, making me a punching bag of sorts for all of his problems.

On to the story. The owner calls me in an absolute panic from LAX (LA's airport) screaming at me that the email servers are down. (we're located in Chicago) I'm sitting in my office, basically in the dead center of our call center, surrounded by CSRs on their PCs making calls etc. Not a single person has mentioned any problems.

So I quickly fire up a cmd and ping the mail servers. All of them a