On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:45:58AM -0400, Will Dennis wrote: > Jeez... If I like the job (profession) and it's interesting and pays > well, why should I be looking to get out of it? I oftimes think of SA > (or Network Admin or whatever admin) as being akin to a plumber or > electrician. There are definitely different levels in those skilled > trades, and you have your slackers that do half-a**ed work, and your > master craftsman that do a beautiful job, even at very complex tasks. > Should these master craftsmen be looking to get out of being "just a > plumber" or "just an electrician"?? I see what my boss has to put up > with (he's a promoted SA) and you couldn't pay me enough to do his job, > as I'm sure I would be very unhappy in my new profession.
I think a lot of it has to do with how much you can improve; we all like to feel like we are improving, and that improvement slows with age and as you advance within your field until you reach your potential. I know that's part of why I started getting more involved with business; when I first started as a SysAdmin/programmer, I could look at programs I wrote last week, and I could write something dramatically better very quickly, just because I was that much better than I was last week. I mean, I'm less patient than most people, but I do think that there is an element to "I've gone as far as I can as an Engineer" to many Engineers making the jump to management/sales engineering/etc. It is pretty satisfying to move into a related field, and use your old knowledge in combination with something you learned this week to dramatically improve your own productivity, but you know what? if I continued to see that kind of dramatic increase in productivity as an Engineer, or if I wasn't able to pull off the basics of being a businessperson, I probably would have continued to work in a purely technical role for much longer than I did. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
