[lopsa-discuss] Career planning

[Stephen Potter]

<quote who="Allan West">
> 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?

I think there should be a definite reason for changing jobs.  I know some
people who simply change jobs every 12-18 months.  Some of them most often
leave just before getting fired for gross incompetence, but others just
feel they "have" to change jobs.

I didn't go into deep detail in my previous mail, but all of my job
changes happened for specific reasons.  One was a geographical move, one
was problem with the company, two were because someone recommended me for
jobs and the financial rewards made them nearly impossible to pass up, one
was just because I "grew up".

-spp
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Stephen Potter  <spp at unixsa.net>      <http://www.systemadministrators.org>
Director, LOPSA Executive Board                      <http://www.lopsa.org>

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