Hope for me yet !

lol, the employment, markets become like the housing market with recruiters talking up every 'green shoot' they can find, don't believe the hype.

This week one joker offered me a contract job on perm wages, called it an 18 month perm position, laughable...

This here is the key, folks. Plenty of people want to be IT managers... but few actually qualify.

You could double my wages and I wouldn't be a manager!

Give me a specialisation any day of the week to increase my earnings power

dont even get me started on this!

I mean you no disrespect, Daniel... but I doubt you'd qualify as an IT manager, either. At age 23, you've barely stopped wetting the bed!

In time, I'm quite sure you will.

EDIT: I mean, be an IT manager... not wet the bed.

Thank God for the clarification...

lmao, you have massively misunderstood my post.

Like whoever said previously, i wouldn't be one if you doubled my wages!

Was teasing, anyway. Gotta go for the humor, mate!

Actually going from advanced IT to management is not as big of a jump as you might imagine
as a senior consultant most of my skillset is probably around softskills anyway, my technical skills just evolve over time, the ability is already there

but when your working on multi million dollar projects as a technical lead you are already
project managing
people managing
delegating
architecture
communicating to business leaders
communicating to technical staff
analyzing risks
minimizing risks
documenting
implementing


only one of that above list is what most new IT folks would consider 'their bit'.. the implementing
more senior ones may consider the architecture, implementing and documenting
and even more senior ones would probably include some of the communicating and delegating
but seriously, at that point, you are MANAGING, whether you are the IT Manager or not, hence it's not a large step.

That's the key here, GOOD IT MANAGERS have that sort of skill set, they were engineers, they worked helpdesk, they also know when to let the techs do what they need to do to get the job done. You get far more out of people by telling them what you need, not what to do, people will surprise you with their ingenuity

Paying me double would probably get me to step up to management, I like getting my hands dirty, but I like working with people too, and i have a home lab and expensive hobbies ;)