I was talking to a friend yesterday who is a web administrator. He told me that the job has always been demanding but now, due to the recession, things had really gotten crazy. Apparently hiring more U.S. based support is strictly prohibited and there's a history of hiring junior off shore help that stay only for a short period before they gain enough experience to move on. So, why draw down your own resources to train someone who's just going to walk in 6 months?
Having spent time as a LAN administrator, and later, a Database administrator in the 90's this is a familiar refrain. Even in good economic times there's still a need to do maintenance during off hours and, of course, you have to be there during the work day to fix it when it breaks.
In IT today there are more administration jobs available just because they're harder to off shore. Sys Admins are the people that you turn to in times of crisis and many companies want to reach out and touch them.
But beware, as a network engineer, or desktop support tech, or any other job where you take responsibility for a critical moving, changing piece of the business you will not get to go home at 5 and your weekends are not your own.
If you want to be an IT professional with more regular hours consider systems analysis, data modeling, or even application development.
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