System Administration Fact 5: They’re mostly entry level

System Administration is typically an entry level position.

Don’t get me wrong, there are people who have made a nice career of being a SysAdmin. But not by staying in the role that teaches them to monitor, report, repair, and improve your data management support infrastructure.

Today a System Administrator with goals gets a job out of college, layers skills, and moves on to a position as Sr. SysAdmin, or in IT Management, or Systems Engineering, or DevOps – wherever the bigger money is, and the more interesting work.

Payscale.com has a nice overview of where candidates tend to take themselves beyond their SysAdmin days.

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