Reddit does, they just don’t care

Seconded

It really wouldn’t be all that bad. If they’re dropping $2m/y on a database admin, then their BCDR plan must be rock solid with crazy fault tolerances. I’d imagine outages are extremely rare.

But, if they’re dropping that kind of money, you’d have to be an expert in the field. Or know someone.

CompTIA certs are basically worthless in the IT field unless you’re trying to get your foot in the door on an IT Helpdesk. Getting vendor specific certs is usually the way to go.

Checkout Remote Desktop Manager from Devolutions. It let’s you do pretty much any type of remote connection you need to do, and can even do things like start your VPN for you before accessing a remote resource.

You’re not truly part of the team until you cause a massive outage.