> On May 16, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/16/2015 06:23 PM, Gilbert Wilson wrote: >>> On May 14, 2015, at 4:33 PM, Matt Lawrence <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> How do I find a job that isn't being a keyboard monkey? How do I get a >>> promotion to a position where I can actually use the skills and knowledge I >>> have developed over decades in the business? I'm stuck. >> >> I found "Land the Tech Job You Love” by Andy Lester and the venerable “What >> Color Is Your Parachute” by Dick Bolles to be invaluable career books. I >> think both would really help with the “I’m stuck and I don’t know where to >> start” place you’re in right now. > > You may not understand, I do not want another low level tech job. I'm done > with that. I would consider managing a Data Center to be more on the level > of what I want.
To try to clarify my previous comment I was thinking of what I read in-between the lines of the email thread as, “I’m done with my current job. It sucks. I want something that’s driven by problem solving and has more authority over the solution, like a data center manager. But I don’t know how to get that kind of job because what I’ve tried to do previously hasn’t worked”. Both books cover the full arc of careers like transitioning to a different industry or obtaining a more senior position; not just someone starting out for the first time. Not everything in the books applied to me, but there was enough to get me going in the right directions at different points in my career. Especially when I had an idea of what I wanted but wasn’t sure how to express it or find it. I offer them up not so much as the be-all-end-all answer, but merely as a resource that could be useful to you as it was for me. I hope that helps! Gil _______________________________________________ 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/
