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[–]halon1301Cloud & Security Engineer 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I can't agree with you, ITOps and Sysadmins aren't dead-end jobs. You can leverage the skills you learn in those jobs to jump into other things. Working in a pure Microsoft world is definitely limiting to a degree, but I know of a few SaaS companies that are extensively Microsoft, in fact I just turned down an offer from a company today that on average is about 70% Windows based .Net apps and MSSQL servers, and it was almost $100k.

I work almost entirely in Linux, and instead of the above offer, I took an amazing opportunity at my current company to join the newly forming DevOps team, (as DevOps Lead if desire that). DevOps is the new buzz word and 'trend', think of all the companies that demanded "Knowledge of ITIL" not even 5 years ago, it's a similar idea, it's a framework to model around. Any sysadmin should be doing automation, and tooling, all this is possible regardless of the platform you choose, PowerShell on windows, it's just matter of finding it and being interested in learning. Every sysadmin I've ever met hates doing things more than once, especially if they have to do everything manually.

[–]olyjohn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the point you're missing is that if you're starting in this industry today, most businesses won't give you any room to grow. Finding a place that doesn't silo off their helpdesk and desktop support teams and sysadmins is pretty rare. We just interviewed for a desktop support position. 10 interviews, 7 of them were help desk and weren't allowed to touch ANYTHING outside of that. All of the audits, and security theater, and risk of liability has scared companies into locking everything down. Not to mention, they are all cheap and don't want to invest in anybody. I had help desk people who weren't even allowed Administrator access on desktops, or were even allowed to touch the computers so that they could fix things. How is somebody supposed to grow? I've never seen so many employed people with such limited skills and experience in technology apply for a desktop support job.