The Sysadmin career field outlook

[Bryan O'Neal]

In truth I think the outlook for dedicated sys admins is bleak. The
cost of commodity hosting has eliminated most low to mid level
positions. In addition being a well rounded generalist is not as
saleable as some one who has a broad but shallow back ground and is
highly specialized in one area.

On 12/7/10, Phil Dunihue <pdunihue at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a few questions as I want to find out all I can about this career
> field
> before I put my time, effort, and money into it.
>
> 1) There is a passage from the fourth edition of Unix and Linux System
> Administration Handbook (Evi Nemeth, et al) that goes as follows: "Sysadmin
> burnout is  rampant.  Most administrators last only a few years."  (page
> 1196,
> second paragraph).  Would you tend to agree or disagree with this
> statement?
> If you disagree, why?
>
> 1A) What is the career path for a systems admin, i.e., where does one
> progress
> from admin duties?
>
> 2)  What do you see in your crystal ball for employment opportunities in
> the
> Phoenix metro area,  say in 2012, for someone who has taken the six CIS
> courses
> (126, 226,  238, 239, 240, & 271) at MCC and has a couple of certs, e.g.,
> the
> Linux+ and a Red hat under his belt?
>
> Background  info: I have B.A., B.S. and M.S degrees from ASU though none is
> in
> IT;  the B.S. is in supply chain mgt., the M.S. is in information mgt., both
>
> those degrees are from the business college.   I am not working in IT at the
> moment but am currently employed in  healthcare in the materials mgt. area.
> I'm
> looking to do a more  interesting type of work than what I do now and have
> always enjoyed the computer programming classes (C++ and VB most recently)
> that
> I have taken at MCC.
>
> Thanks very much for your thoughts.
>
>
>
>

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