To: ProtectOurFreedom
As long as non technical people need sophisticated IT systems I think I am in pretty good shape.
I have spent 30 years refining and expanding my craft — system level, DBA level, application level, management level, functional level.
That is why I always keep “my hand in” when I am managing a project — it lets me keep my more basic tools sharp and also lets me bring them into the management realm.
Folks, you gotta be both deep and wide.
5 posted on
03/02/2009 9:30:34 PM PST by
freedumb2003
(Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
To: freedumb2003
I have spent 30 years refining and expanding my craft system level, DBA level, application level, management level, functional level. I wouldn't think there would be a shortage of DBAs with governments at all levels expanding their watchful eye over us citizens...
47 posted on
03/03/2009 3:11:36 AM PST by
EVO X
To: freedumb2003
That is why I always keep my hand in when I am managing a project it lets me keep my more basic tools sharp and also lets me bring them into the management realm.
freedumb2003,
you are spot on correct!
That is the same advice I gave my fellow IT managers. Stay somewhat functional and don't be a pure manager.
I manage project managers as well as projects and maintain a broad operations range and knowledge. Pure managers who only manage people are easier to cut.
Worst case, I can fill a variety of roles instead of being stuck at a certain level.
48 posted on
03/03/2009 3:16:51 AM PST by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: freedumb2003
I have spent 30 years refining and expanding my craft system level, DBA level, application level, management level, functional level. The last fella I knew with that background got replaced by cheap folks from India. Before that he was a technology directory for one of the largest law firms in the nation.
Today he's working odd jobs - sometimes involving computers, but always involving a screwdriver.
49 posted on
03/03/2009 3:24:44 AM PST by
The Duke
(I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
To: freedumb2003
OOO RAH, soldier.
.NET 3.5, (ASP n C#) with heavy AJAX, SQL from sprocs all the way to tuning, JScript, C++ if absolutely necessary, and about 20 years in the field.
No problem for me, yet.
51 posted on
03/03/2009 3:29:08 AM PST by
Lazamataz
("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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