As IT technicians, many people must have considered such a question: What should we do next? As an IT technician, if you want to go long and wonderful in your career, must you finally take a management position? Are IT technicians suitable for management?
Positive opinions: management, appropriate development goals
Many people agree that IT is the best choice for an IT technician to continue to develop healthily.
Reason one: the life of technology is limited.
Sun Xiao and his colleagues in the technical department often talk about development. They all think that innovation in the field of IT technology is too fast. It's never too old to learn, but when will it be learned? Nobody's sure. Sun Xiao himself is afraid that one day he will be laughed at by newcomers and fall behind.
If you have been engaged in technology development, imagine that the future may be the same as now: writing code day and night, being told by customers to change this and that. Sun Xiao was puzzled: Is this the life that a man in his forties (though not yet) should live with a family (not yet)?
Sun Xiao also talked about a time when he visited a client and saw a young engineer talking about a 40-year-old engineer in a very rude manner. He felt very sad when he came back. Although age is not everything in the workplace, as a technician, even if you used to be very skilled and hard-working, you can't compare with young engineers. After all, you can't compete with them. However, Sun Xiao secretly vowed that he could not be an engineer forever.
Sun Xiao's ideas represent the ideas of many people. Most people want to accept different challenges when they reach a certain age. Few people are willing to write a lifetime program, and management positions become an inevitable way.
Reason 2: There are natural advantages from technology to management.
When technicians first entered the business, they had no other ideas except hard work. But IT industry is usually the result of teamwork, so when a person's experience is mature, he has the responsibility and obligation to bring it? Rookie? Work together. In order to finish the work well, we must learn how to lead and manage employees. This is already learning different abilities. If he realizes it, he will begin to supplement his management ability. In this position, it is also dereliction of duty to fail to do a good job.
Therefore, technicians working for a period of time will naturally involve management work. From the arrangement/execution/summary of a person's daily work to the planning of a group (maybe only 1 ~ 2 members), it is all management work. Even the' jobs' that many IT technicians often do are actually large or small project management, such as updating the host equipment in the computer room, importing or cutting over application software, etc. Therefore, the development from technicians to managers is not deliberately arranged, and they often grow into an excellent project manager or even a higher-level manager in a subtle way.
Since technicians often do management work, and it may be project management practice, why not take advantage of this natural advantage, pay more attention to experience accumulation and knowledge reserve, and let themselves go to by going up one flight of stairs when the opportunity comes?
Reason 3: The development prospect of management is infinite.
Speaking of management positions, whether technical management or project management, Andy thinks this position is more like? Underground? General manager. Because all departments need him to coordinate, whether it is demand, development, operation and maintenance or QA, for example, business departments will welcome such people to learn more about the business; The demand department will urge them to participate in the demand analysis. As a manager, he has many backup. Besides money and connections, what else can he not do? In fact, the general managers of some technology companies are transferred from technical managers.
Many people who agree with this view have mentioned it? Man struggles upwards? Think about it, and this high place is now a management position in their eyes. For them, this is a suitable goal that is visible, within reach and has a sustainable development prospect.
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