@andriy.sultanov
The move is more about spending yet more personal money for something that is primarily used for learning what I need to know for work (a rack, UPS, and some odds and ends at $800). Or half of it is, half of it is a VMware system and that's to let me learn what I need to leave this job and find one that pays more. And then move that work to something easier to use that costs less. Still amazed at how many places just took the price increase and are still not making plans to move to something else, even if they are cutting core counts in half to save half of that new money. But I'm also seeing that the general trend in IT around where I live is to get into a Silo, and never ever take on another task to fill a need. This way you never want to move laterally to other products, just keep doing the same things the same ways until management gets tired of hearing "we can't do that" and fires everyone to replace them with an MSP (or other contractor).
So for the off topic rant, feeling salty again today.
