[lopsa-discuss] Career planning

[Doug Hughes]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Allan West wrote:

> Brad Knowles wrote:
> > At 9:14 PM -0500 2005-12-05, Andrew Maddox wrote:
> >
> >>  How permanent is any job these days in IT? In systems/network fields,
> >>  especially?
> >
> >
> >     Not very, at least in my experience.  Many people seem to move on
> > after just a year or two, pretty much regardless of where they are
> > moving from or where they are going.
>
> I am really curious whether you (all) feel that this is true at all
> levels of sysadmin work. If so, do you view job change as inherently
> desirable?
>
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>
> How (un)usual is my position compared to other sysadmins who have been
> working in the field for 10-15 years? Thanks, Allan

My minimum stay at a job has been 3 years and my maximum was 7. Most
people don't tend to stay that long. I don't know that there is
any specific metric. There are some people in the community who have been
in the same position for 10 years or more (I'd surmise if you took a
survey most of them would be in academia; that's where my 7 years was).
This may even be covered in the salary survey. I haven't had a look yet.

	Doug