SvennoJ on 30 July 2017
| vivster said: Network admin in a fairly big company. I'd say I'm pretty good or else I wouldn't have so easily landed that job. I think in my current capacity I'm certainly one of the best as I'm definitely overqualified for what I do. The thing is I don't really need a better job. The only thing that's above my current position as a simple admin is CIO/CTO or at least team management but I really don't want to be that. I love networks and I love being close to the metal and doing actual configurations and being creative and troubleshooting stuff. Every position above my position would ensue more management and I just don't want that, no matter how much it pays. Would I be a good leader or project manager? Hell yeah I would be, but I just don't want to. I could also be a consultant but that's pretty exhausting for me with all the traveling and talking to people. I'm probably gonna stay a simple technician my whole life unless circumstances force me into management or consulting. |
That would be the right choice in my opinion. As a programmer I never wanted to get into a lead position, I just wanted to write code, fix broken code. Yet due to circumstances I got pushed more and more into other things, spending half my day on answering emails or writing documentation and even got send out to lawyers halfway accross the country to resolve patent disputes. The added stress wasn't worth it. Just give me a tough bug list to solve or a new problem to tackle head on. I probably wouldn't be a good project manager anyway, and end up doing it all myself. I could be a good micro manager :/ (My first project manager was like that, he basically wrote out the exact pseudo code just to be translated into c, waste of time)
