Yeah, same spot. In tech, top of my field making 6 digits.

Everyone they're hiring is freaking clueless. I spend my days baby sitting on basic sysadmin stuff. (How DNS works , how TLS works, adding front end protection because their microservices keep getting attacked and they have nothing in their stack to mitigate attacks)

I've been doing senior sysadmin DevOps dev SRE stuff for 25 years now... But my power to architect infrastructure is dwindling to cleaning up when siloed teams of front end engineers with no oversight say "oh shit we messed up, everything is on fire"

I do think companies are going to start getting their asses handed to them... They don't value sysadmins anymore, and are losing sight of what happens when the smartest guy in the room is a college grad with 4 years of JavaScript dev.

The most senior engineers are getting pushed out since the tech needs are reducing with cloud... That means less jobs, and a retraction of positions in this down market.

As for what comes next, My guess is infosec. However the salary of an infosec guy is still substantially less than sre in my case... So here I sit. Explaining how you can't do HTTPS redirects in DNS for the 90th time.