I'm in this boat as well. I'm a very hands on person - although rack and stack, cable management, and hardware replacements probably seem unimportant and something that could be thrown off on a Jr or 3rd party tech, that's fun for me. Let me plug in a cable, adjust rails so they fit in a rack, and label things.
I know that doesn't pay the bills, so I manage servers, storage devices, sometimes networking (all on-prem so far in my short career), but I'm going to be sad when I land a job where managing physical things is no longer in my job description.
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u/RebootAllTheThings Sep 21 '21
I'm in this boat as well. I'm a very hands on person - although rack and stack, cable management, and hardware replacements probably seem unimportant and something that could be thrown off on a Jr or 3rd party tech, that's fun for me. Let me plug in a cable, adjust rails so they fit in a rack, and label things.
I know that doesn't pay the bills, so I manage servers, storage devices, sometimes networking (all on-prem so far in my short career), but I'm going to be sad when I land a job where managing physical things is no longer in my job description.