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where to go, next.....
I are a 1958 Baby (yah, do the math). Currently I am an Oracle/SQL Server DBA, and I also have been a UNIX (HP-UX/AIX/Solaris) SysAdmin; I know enough about Windows and DB2 to get out of a wet paper bag.
I've heard the "yes, we have a career track for those who want to remain technical and not go into management" - it is the stuff of vaporware.
I have been through two (2) data center moves and am in the midst of yet another one - the servers will be located in the Eastern United States, but managed by a company on the Indian subcontinent (most of you can guess who)
I love being a DBA AND UNIX (or Linux) SysAdmin, but with Sarbanes-Oxley, "separation of duties", outsourcing, etc, etc - a strict wall of separation is being erected in most larger shops between DBA's and SysAdmins (er, would someone tell Lawrence J. Ellison that most DBA's these days can _barely_ get 'sudo' (without sacrificing a firstborn child or two), much less 'root' to execute 'rootpre.sh', etc, ?)
My manager wants me to get into project planning, management, coordinating the move of new systems from development into production, and stop doing daily operational (translation: keep the systems up and running) duties - I'm willing to try, but there's nothing like whipping up a tasty UNIX or SQL script in the morning, or installing new applications, etc.
I don't really want to be a PiMP, or a manager or do nothing but MS Project all day (ugh)!
It seems I would need to get hired by a Siemens or an IBM Global Services or a Tata - I just don't know about working for companies like that.
Thoughts?