How I stay organized
Staying organized is never a one size fits all item for people. For me I have to use quite a few different pieces to keep everything together. The first piece is I read a book called Time Management for System Administrators (direct link to Amazon). Using some of the practices in this book, I was able to take a lot of chaos out of my last job. I worked for an MSP and every day was crazy. I started listing everything I needed to get done in a day. I used a giant white board and worked with my manager so that they could see what I was doing for the day at a glance. They would re-prioritize things with talking to me at times and we would all stay on the same page. The book talks about writing down all of your tasks and then ranking them. Since at times I would have different priorities than my manage, it was important for us to stay on the same page. A lot of times a good ticketing system would take care of this, but we didn't use our ticketing system for project work at the ...