Being a solo IT admin means you’re the helpdesk, the network engineer, the cybersecurity analyst, the patch management lead, the database whisperer, the app wrangler, and—if you’ve been around long enough—the historian of that one legacy system nobody dares touch. It’s a role powered by caffeine, duct tape solutions, and the faint hope that nothing breaks after 5 p.m. But
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There comes a moment in every overworked, under-caffeinated IT professional’s life when the weight of everything—laptops, cables, books, random tech relics from 2009—finally causes the last zipper on your trusty old backpack to throw in the towel. That moment happened to me: a solo IT admin, online grad student, and someone on a no-mercy deep dive into network and cybersecurity
So there I was—halfway under a desk, tracing yet another mystery Ethernet cable (that led nowhere, by the way)—when my boss walked by and hit me with a corporate phrase so vague it might as well have come from a fortune cookie: “You need to start thinking like a manager.” Oh really? Buddy, I’m the only IT person here. I
Let’s get this out of the way: working solo in IT isn’t just a job — it’s an extreme sport. Except instead of medals, you get weird help desk tickets, 3 a.m. server alerts, and the unshakable knowledge that if anything breaks, it’s your fault. And you know what? Sometimes, after explaining for the fourth time that the Wi-Fi password