Yes, specialization and outsourcing are the directions the field is taking.
Instead of a team of people who are essentially part of a company's
technology infrastructure, corporations have turned to "hired guns" for
specific needs, only keeping decision makers in house.
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Joseph King
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mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bryan
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:06 PM
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Subject: Re: The Sysadmin career field outlook
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@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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