⚠️ Daylight Saving Time Could Kill You—Here’s How To Adjust To Losing Sleep

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Even though it’s just one hour lost, the amount of sleep deprivation due to disrupted sleep rhythm lasts for many days. Here are some quick tips to help.

As clocks march ahead and daylight saving time begins, there can be anxiety around losing an hour of sleep and how to adjust to this change.

Many studies have demonstrated that there is an increased risk of heart attack, stroke and high blood pressure associated with sleep deprivation. Workplace injuries increase and so do automobile accidents.

Usually, an hour seems like an insignificant amount of time, but even this minimal loss can cause problems. There can be significant health repercussions of this forcible shift in the body clock.

Springing forward is usually harder than falling backward. Why?

The natural internal body clock rhythm in people tends to be slightly longer than 24 hours, which means that every day we tend to delay our sleep schedules. Thus, “springing forward” goes against the body’s natural rhythm. It is similar to a mild case of jet lag caused by traveling east—in which you lose time and have trouble falling asleep at an earlier hour that night.

Read the complete Fast Company article by The Conversation: https://www.fastcompany.com/91502743/daylight-saving-time-2026-sleep

🛜 $78K+ Mid-level Network & Systems Admin – Hybrid

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We’re seeking a hands-on Mid-Level Network & Systems Administrator to support a hybrid Cisco/Microsoft infrastructure across headquarters and distributed locations.

This is an execution-focused role within a 16-person IT team. You will maintain and troubleshoot network, server, and endpoint systems — ensuring uptime, security, and operational stability. You will not be acting as an enterprise architect, but you will be expected to take ownership of issues and see them through to resolution.

Infrastructure Operations Engineer

This role supports a hybrid Cisco and Microsoft infrastructure environment within a mission-driven nonprofit organization. Key responsibilities include administering Cisco Meraki (MX/MS/MR) networks, managing VLAN segmentation for POS, corporate, and guest networks, maintaining firewall rules, supporting VPN connectivity, and troubleshooting network performance issues.

The position also manages Active Directory and Azure AD (Entra ID) hybrid identity, including Group Policy administration and access control management. Responsibilities extend to Microsoft Intune endpoint management, device provisioning, and enforcement of security and compliance policies.

Additional duties include Windows Server administration, maintaining DNS/DHCP services, supporting backup and NAS environments, and ensuring system uptime. The role also provides operational support for IIS-hosted applications and basic SQL Server indexing and performance troubleshooting.

Candidates should have 4–8 years of infrastructure experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and hands-on experience with Cisco Meraki, Active Directory, Windows Server, and Intune.

Salary range: $75K–$90K with strong benefits. SherlockTalent offers a $1,000 referral bonus for successful placements.

Sponsorship Opportunities for the NAF Student Industry Conference – Mar 11

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As we prepare for the upcoming NAF Student Industry Conference, we’re beginning sponsorship outreach and would love your help sharing these opportunities within your networks.

We have the following sponsorship levels available:

• $20,000 – multi-year sponsorship (this year + next year)
• $10,000 – multi-year sponsorship (this year + next year)
• $5,000 – single-year sponsorship
• $2,500 – single-year sponsorship

To make this easier, here’s who to think about for each level:

$20K and $10K multi-year sponsors
Think about organizations that:
• Hire or plan to hire early-career talent
• Are focused on long-term workforce development
• Want consistent brand visibility across multiple years
• Invest in education, career readiness, or talent pipelines

Examples include large employers, corporate partners, foundations, financial institutions, healthcare systems, tech companies, and firms with structured early-talent or internship programs.

$5K and $2.5K sponsors
Think about:
• Local businesses and vendors
• Small to mid-size companies
• Organizations looking for visibility and student engagement without a long-term commitment
• Employers interested in supporting career exploration and industry exposure

👩‍🎓 👨‍🎓 Venture Miami Scholarship Fund – Applications Open Thru’ March 15

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We’re excited to announce that applications are now open through March 15 for the Venture Miami Scholarship Fund, which supports City of Miami residents in accessing high-wage, high-demand careers through professional training and credentialing programs.

You may apply for either a college degree program or a tech bootcamp.

Eligibility Requirements

At the time of application, applicants must meet the following criteria:

• Must be a City of Miami or Little Haiti resident
• Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

For College-Credit Programs:

• Be a high school senior or a recent high school graduate (within the past four years) who is pursuing a degree, certificate, or license in a STEM program or high-wage/high-demand field and provide an official high school transcript or GED certificate.
• Have a minimum 2.5 GPA
• Be accepted into a participating school
• Must be a Pell grant recipient determined by the Florida Student Aid FAFSA guidelines.

For Vocational Tech Programs:

• Be accepted to or currently enrolled in a participating vocational program and pursuing a certificate or license in a STEM program or high-wage/high-demand field

Submit a form of interest for one of the following college programs:

• Barry University
• St. Thomas University
• Florida International University
• Florida Memorial University
• University of Miami
• Nova Southeastern University

📈 Why Starting a Business in Your 40s, 50s, and even 60s Can Be a Distinct Advantage

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Especially if your goal is to start a remarkably successful company.

Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he started Facebook. Bill Gates was 21 when he started Microsoft; co-founder Paul Allen was 23. Steve Jobs was 21 when he co-founded Apple; co-founder Steve Wozniak was 26. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Nvidia’s Jensen Huang were 30. 

A 60-year-old startup founder was three times more likely to launch a successful startup than a 30-year-old startup founder

Yet they’re the exceptions, not the rule. A study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found the average age of entrepreneurs who start a company and go on to hire at least one employee is 42. A study conducted by the Census Bureau and two MIT professors found the most successful entrepreneurs tend to be middle-aged, even in the technology sector. After compiling a list of 2.7 million company founders who hired at least one employee between 2007 and 2014, researchers found the average age of those who founded the most successful tech companies was 45.

Read the complete Fast Company article BY Inc.: https://www.fastcompany.com/91497391/think-youre-too-old-to-start-a-business-science-says-people-in-their-40s-50s-and-even-60s-have-a-distinct-advantage

🚀 DevOps Engineer Hybrid – West Palm Beach / Miami, FL | $140K + Excellent Benefits

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Representing an esteemed client in multimodal logistics, you’ll improve delivery reliability for APIs/EDI and adjacent apps—automation, observability, and incident readiness.

Responsibilities

• Stand up/streamline CI/CD and environment promotion for APIs/EDI.
• Establish practical SLOs with metrics, logs, traces, and clear alerts.
• Harden secrets and access patterns with security/IT partners.
• Create/refine production runbooks; improve on-call handoffs and postmortems.
• Automate common environment tasks; reduce manual, error-prone steps.
• Collaborate on release planning, cutovers, and rollback safeguards.

Requirements

• 3+ years DevOps/SRE supporting production APIs/integrations.
• Hands-on CI/CD ownership and environment automation (any modern stack).
• Secure operations fundamentals: authN/Z, tokens, certs/keys, least privilege.
• Observability in practice and calm incident management.
• Proficiency with scripting/automation and version control workflows.
• Clear communication across engineering, operations, and business teams.

Preferred Experience

• EDI/partner data flows and high-volume exchange operations.
• Logistics integrations (e.g., rail/carrier connectivity such as CSX/CN).
• Epicor (EDI) or Descartes exposure; gate automation/OCR; manifest remediation.

Not for you? SherlockTalent offers a referral bonus for successful placements. Include your name in the “Referral Source” field on the application or email Referrals@SherlockTalent.com