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Originally Posted by Gnan
but remember IT support workers are 10 a penny nowadays and therefore demand is lower and salaries go down.. so you might find it hard to barter.
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This is a topic close to my heart right now.
I've been in the industry for 20 years, first as a hardware engineer, then systems and finally networks. I don't believe that people like me will be needed much longer with the way the technology is going, in fact I'd say in ten years time there will be a small number of highly paid system developers and programmers and the rest will just be box shifters. Networks will configure themselves and administrators will do little more than set up user accounts. Systems will need no more technical support than a pocket calculator.
This is one reason I'm looking at retraining now rather than being pushed out when I'm in my mid 50's. I feel a bit like a steam loco engineer in the late 1950s...
So far as cr*p managers go, I think there are more around now. There seems to be a trend towards management "by numbers" i.e. ticking the right boxes and following procedures, genuine dynamic management let alone leadership is becoming increasingly rare. At my place we are seeing more and more so called managers apearing at all levels and it's got to the point where the organisation is so clogged with red tape that a job that could be done in a couple of weeks two or three years ago is now taking months!
I'm hoping to find something less stressful like paramedic...