Hello all. Long time reader, first time poster! I think there’s a lot of great insights here and I appreciate your time and efforts. With that said, I’d appreciate some non-inflammatory responses to my predicament.
I’m almost 3 years out of college (bachelor’s in CS) and I’m slaving away for a consulting firm doing the technical architecture/infrastructure side of ERP implementation, not including application programming or database administration.
In 5 years, I want to have switched from that to being more of a technologist, particularly with Oracle. I want my skill set to include standard DBA stuff, application performance tuning, recommending architecture, perhaps even doing implementation or upgrades of ERP applications.
I’m frustrated in my current role because I see something I want to do but I’m not sure how to get from here to there.
1) Is this reasonable or am I setting the bar way too high for 5 years out?
2) Is the scope of work I want too broad?
3) How can I break into this field? Transferring to another position internally, getting a new job, training?
4) How can I grow and maintain my skillset when companies are so stingy with training budgets, without having to go invest in an enterprise architecture for my house?