[davemtl]

I've had jobs where there's been on-call and you can have the pager all week and nothing happens. I was very fortunate to be in a team that had a well matured and very stable service, however when it did go down, it went down hard. Recovery was a well oiled and documented procedure and the environment could be brought back up in under an hour (provided nothing else went wrong -- it rarely did).

Today, my job is very different. It's a whole different playbook. 6 months into my role, I was asked to go on the on-call rotation. I learned enough to get through it, thankfully one of my colleagues were available in case I hit a situation I couldn't handle. Almost 2 years into the job and I don't sweat it anymore, I know enough of my service to fix most issues and now appreciate the escalation procedure. I will kick it into gear, even if I need a storage admin to give me a few GB of disk space to get me through the weekend. :)