It was a painful time when I worked in IT management, but my professional live is the technical job. That means when I realized this it was very heavy to return to technical position. From system administrator I become Project manager and after IT department manager. In present I?m system administrator and I want to keep this position. The reasons are :
When I worked in management, I was very busy with problems like financial resources, human resources, plans, meetings and so on. I haven?t time for read the news in IT, the try new techniques, and all the information in IT I must accept from my stuff like valid.
After a period I realized that my IT knowledge level become to old for that time. For example I didn?t know what is a SATA drive. Only what I knew that is a fast HDD controller.
After a big war, I?m again system administrator, and I?m very happy for this.
My daily work contain min. of 3 hours of reading news in IT, solutions in IT, tips and tricks in IT and I have time for try what I find and what I suppose it?s useful.