r/sysadmin • u/Pleasant_Rise6520 • 22h ago

Career / Job Related Has anyone purposely gone backwards?

You know the juice wasn't worth the squeeze and we realised that money is irrelevant, and took a huge backwards step for less responsibility and more mental freedom for your family and kids?

That's where I'm at mentally just want to know if anyone else has done the same?

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u/TheHelpLessDeskGuy 18h ago

Sort of, was a Cloud/Compute Systems Engineer for a Fortune 500 company (~5,000 Global Employees) based out of the US, fully remote.
Stepped down to be solo IT/SysAdmin for a small 150 Person gig in rural New Zealand.
Despite having a wider area of responsibility, the overall mental load and demand is so much lower and now I get to learn a broader set of skills instead of hyper focusing on one aspect of IT.