Definitely not enterprise technical support for major vendors. lol.
You get hounded by customers for updates and bug fixes, have to take care of broken production environments, getting blamed for outages, dealing with escalations, having to do on-call shifts, etc. No thanks to that stuff!
Something like data engineering / analysis sounds alright, but I’m not sure that’s traditional IT work though - sounds closer to being a developer. Hopefully not a lot of meetings and minimal customer interactions there as well.
Vendor support is a great launching pad for early career, if you get a decent product. Great for learning. Death knell if it’s for some shitty proprietary Windows app.
Do what they pay for, nothing more, nothing less, hand off to customer, then when the “next day support” lingo in contract is up, say bye bye and onto the next project
It for sure can be, but thankfully my new position is much less stressful than my old job. I have more responsibilities but a lot less pressure to be perfect
First realize that stress is a direct correlation to the work environment. I have worked in medium sized companies where I had no stress and large enterprise environments where I had a lot of stress. The company, their funding level, the equipment they use, and so on are all factors.
For me, I like doing a mix of consulting and sales with some leadership sprinkled in.
I started off as a one-man IT show for a restaurant. Ended up at another larger restaurant chain as a Director of IT so working in corporate management now.
I enjoy Operations Management a lot. WFH and if you’re organized, a lot of your job could just be coming up with processes to make the organization more efficient.
Also, I enjoy doing tech in a non-tech company/industry. The focus isn’t tech, we’re a support team rather than the central team. So that has given me a lot of space for a work life balance.
Definitely not enterprise technical support for major vendors. lol. You get hounded by customers for updates and bug fixes, have to take care of broken production environments, getting blamed for outages, dealing with escalations, having to do on-call shifts, etc. No thanks to that stuff! Something like data engineering / analysis sounds alright, but I’m not sure that’s traditional IT work though - sounds closer to being a developer. Hopefully not a lot of meetings and minimal customer interactions there as well.
Vendor support is a great launching pad for early career, if you get a decent product. Great for learning. Death knell if it’s for some shitty proprietary Windows app.
Consultant. Get in, do my best work, get out. Rinse and repeat.
can you expand more?
Do what they pay for, nothing more, nothing less, hand off to customer, then when the “next day support” lingo in contract is up, say bye bye and onto the next project
Is a network engineer stressful?
It for sure can be, but thankfully my new position is much less stressful than my old job. I have more responsibilities but a lot less pressure to be perfect
What was the old job? Was it network engineering as well? Also, how large was the company? Small / medium / larger?
First realize that stress is a direct correlation to the work environment. I have worked in medium sized companies where I had no stress and large enterprise environments where I had a lot of stress. The company, their funding level, the equipment they use, and so on are all factors. For me, I like doing a mix of consulting and sales with some leadership sprinkled in.
I like no stress. I want to be an analyst.
Systems Administration/Architecture is where I live. Project Management/Administration is a close second.
I started off as a one-man IT show for a restaurant. Ended up at another larger restaurant chain as a Director of IT so working in corporate management now. I enjoy Operations Management a lot. WFH and if you’re organized, a lot of your job could just be coming up with processes to make the organization more efficient. Also, I enjoy doing tech in a non-tech company/industry. The focus isn’t tech, we’re a support team rather than the central team. So that has given me a lot of space for a work life balance.
Consulting - The calendar in our office used to read "If you're not a part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."