THREAD: Let's talk about what it takes to make fundamental security change happen in a large company network, and what you should be prepared to expect.
This is not discouragement at all, this is about the honor of perseverance and pushing your corner of the world forward.

(It's also about giving me a pep-talk in my unexpectedly-extended journey after getting dunked in the waters of an F500 where I am expected to help architect the future with horizon unlimited.)

Everything is going to go slower than you think, and you're going to blame yourself.
I didn't understand the last part. I encountered thwarts that I could have overcome, but didn't have the emotional energy to do it, and grew self-loathing in malaise. Especially in pandemicworld.

To go from being responsible for just the person you're talking to on the phone in Helpdesk, to the immediate unforced fate of many tens of thousands of machines?
At first you are confident, then you understand the scope of this. Not only to succeed, but to fail. What that means.