I'm a techie (geek). I do my job well and am very conscientious and diligent in my work.
Should upper management decide that I have the management skills (after being here for 7 years and in the military for 10) required to:
a) lead and inspire my current peers;
b) make the necessary hard decisions in a timely manner;
c) interact in a calm and professional manner with other upper management,
then I would take that management job in a heartbeat. Technical pesonnel are needed to lead technical teams and/or become CIOs of the department. There is nothing worse in a company than having some PHB with no concept of technical issues, being your CIO...it will lead to disaster and a lack of morale every time!
And as someone else already pointed out, the bonuses and the pay are much better. And to tell you the truth, that's where the rubber meets the road. I'm going to do whatever provides the best financial future for my family (as long as it's legal). Heck, I'd stand knee-deep in poop and shovel it into little brown paper bags for 10 hours a day, if it provided enough monetary compensation!
Man! I sure don't know who you folks have been talking to about what Systems/Network Admins do, but I can assure you that I don't do any of the grunt work you're talking about. And neither do any of my co-workers.
If a dang user is too lazy to get his fat butt out of his chair and go change the toner or paper level in his printer, then I guess he's just not going to be able to print today, because I sure as heck am not going to do it!
I have way too much to do with keeping an eye on my Exchange servers, fielding technical requests from our Help Desk, maintaining the print SERVERS, yadda yadda yadda.
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This has already been done by Beretta, as well. It was featured on Discovery Channel's "Future Weapons with Mack." It's called the Beretta LTLX7000 Kinetic Energy Weapon. Here are some links: Video: http://video.aol.com/video-detail/futureweapons-beretta-ltlx7000/404260523 Still Photo: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/future-weapons/weapons/zone3/slideshow/slideshow.html (slide #5)
I'm a techie (geek). I do my job well and am very conscientious and diligent in my work.
Should upper management decide that I have the management skills (after being here for 7 years and in the military for 10) required to:
a) lead and inspire my current peers;
b) make the necessary hard decisions in a timely manner;
c) interact in a calm and professional manner with other upper management,
then I would take that management job in a heartbeat. Technical pesonnel are needed to lead technical teams and/or become CIOs of the department. There is nothing worse in a company than having some PHB with no concept of technical issues, being your CIO...it will lead to disaster and a lack of morale every time!
And as someone else already pointed out, the bonuses and the pay are much better. And to tell you the truth, that's where the rubber meets the road. I'm going to do whatever provides the best financial future for my family (as long as it's legal). Heck, I'd stand knee-deep in poop and shovel it into little brown paper bags for 10 hours a day, if it provided enough monetary compensation!
>Ask not what you country can do for you. Ask >what you can do for your country. -- anonymous
Anonymous? Anonymous!?? How about JFK? This was a famous line from one of JFK's public addresses.
Man! I sure don't know who you folks have been talking to about what Systems/Network Admins do, but I can assure you that I don't do any of the grunt work you're talking about. And neither do any of my co-workers.
If a dang user is too lazy to get his fat butt out of his chair and go change the toner or paper level in his printer, then I guess he's just not going to be able to print today, because I sure as heck am not going to do it!
I have way too much to do with keeping an eye on my Exchange servers, fielding technical requests from our Help Desk, maintaining the print SERVERS, yadda yadda yadda.