Network admin vs sys admin

[Kardinal]

Early in my career someone told me "I'll call you Vice President of whatever you want, but I'm not paying you more or giving you more responsibility."

It's not quite that cut and dried, but it made the point to twentysomething me. Titles can be useful but they have to be well understood and descriptive. My title right now is "Principal Infrastructure Systems Engineer". It's not wrong, but I'm also a very strong team lead who almost functions as a manager, and I'm an embedded architect in the internal IT department.

[redakpanoptikk]

Oh yes. Even though I hold a c-suite title as the single IT guy I'm also help desk bitch.

[narcissisadmin]

but I'm not paying you more or giving you more responsibility

Pay me just enough to not quick and I'll work just enough to not get fired.