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Because Security is a result of precision and engineering, not admonishment or goading. It is something few are able to practice because they have not truly failed. My complete failure as I made the perfect solution was what drove my introspection. We are all a hero of our story. What if we aren't?

We all want to design the perfect system, and I have. I have built the communications in the reasoning and why it would succeed. I was a genius and demonstrated it. And you know that got me. It got me nothing. Only experience to know how weak I was in dictating outcome. And permanent humility thus.

Working 10 years in Helpdesk while having the power of a system engineer is the central story of my life. I was able to practice the fixes in immediacy I witnessed. I was able to see my mistakes in minutes. This is something you are not allowed to do. I was. And that is what makes this different.

<raises hand> "I accidentally scheduled 11:00am instead of pm for the patch/rebooting"

Done that…sigh…

THIS IS WHY WE USE 24 HOUR CLOCKS!!!

My favorite at my current place of employment was, "The vendor said this SAN upgrade is nondisruptive, so I'll do it at 10:00 AM." Followed almost immediately by, "Why are all of our servers down?"

LOL. Difference between jr admin and sr admin: jr says "no outage" seniors say "shouldn't, but we'll sched after hours anyway"