u/tigercat300

i've been working at an msp for about 4 years now. started on helpdesk now im doing l2/l3 stuff and some project work. pay is decent but im completely fried.

heres what my week looks like. im the only person who knows how like 5 different client systems work. on call every other week. jumping between tickets and meetings and emergencies all day long. by friday i cant even remember what i did on monday. everything just blends together.

i used to have a homelab. used to study for certs on weekends. now i just stare at the wall and try not to think about work.

im thinking about going internal. same pay maybe a bit less but slower pace. no timesheets. no slas. no context switching every 20 minutes.

but here's what scares me. some people say internal it is just as bad but different. boring work. stuck with ancient systems you cant change. meetings about meetings. office politics. no room to learn anything new.

so for those who made the jump - was it better for your mental health? what do you miss about msp life? what do you wish someone told you before you left?

if you stayed in msps - how did you fix the burnout without quitting?

but yeah. im tired. need to make a decision soon. tell me your real stories. the good the bad and the ugly.

I run a small e-commerce site and need to translate product descriptions and customer emails into 4 languages automatically. The free tools I've tried are fast but the quality drops when it comes to tone and accuracy for sales copy.

I recently found that ad verbum combines AI+human translation and it seems like it could handle the heavy lifting without constant manual fixes.

Anyone here automate something similar? What setup has worked best for consistent results?

I've been trying to sell my car for nearly a month now. Listed on Facebook Marketplace, Gumtree, even paid for a premium ad on Carsales. And honestly- I'm exhausted.

Every morning I wake up to messages. Half of them are just -is this still available? followed by absolute silence when I reply -yes. Then there are the lowballers - people offering half my asking price with -cash today mate like they're doing me a favour. I had one guy message me six times over two weeks, each time with a slightly higher offer, and then he just vanished.

The test drives are what really get to me. You let a complete stranger sit in your car, drive it around, and you're just sitting there in the passenger seat hoping they don't crash it or take off. I had one bloke bring his three mates along. Another spent 45 minutes inspecting every single panel, said he loved it, and then offered me $4k less than what we'd already agreed on in messages.

Also - what's the weirdest or worst experience you've had selling a car privately in Australia? I need to know I'm not alone in this.

I’ve heard that you should customize your resume for each application. But doing that for every single job takes a lot of time. I’m trying to figure out if it’s really worth the effort or if a strong general resume is enough

What’s been your experience?