The Sysadmin career field outlook

[Joseph King]

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.

In Your Service,

Joseph King
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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Bryan
O'Neal
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2010 8:06 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
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 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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