I was sort of curious about how people felt about this. For the last 2 years I’ve worked as a one-man IT dpeartment. Before that, I worked in large shops with 30-50 people. My wife,(a System Admin at a big firm) said I’d lose touch with the industryand skills working alone at a small company. She has a point.
But, I have a wider range of functions, don’t have meetings, and don’t have to argue technical details with prima donnas. One meeting some time ago had 3 MCNE’s yell at each other for 20minutes about the best way to remove a server from the tree. Who needs that? My boss asks for something, I figure out how I want to do it, and it just gets done.
So, what is the better deal for the folks here, say given that same pay, 1 person IT, or the big department?
