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Even in IT I find that with each consecutive job that I get, my wage increases while my workload decreases. I'm literally being paid more to do less. I don't think it's the same for all these professionals but I feel that once most people reach a certain level, they mentally retire from learning new things.
I've often wondered if it was an age or even time thing. I'm 44 and I noticed at some point years ago I was getting more reluctant to click buttons and try to figure things out on my own. That's how I learned everything as a kid and became the typical family IT guy. I had to relearn that curiosity and the willingness to learn things in that fashion, which I think shrank just from disuse. I'm not in IT, but I've seen that reluctance grow in other people too.
I wonder if rising to certain levels (or just gaining support staff to help with things) contributes to not doing small things. Then that can lead to an increased reluctance to do other small things. (Just out of no longer feeling comfortable with them.) I hadn't thought about it, but it makes sense to me.
Yes, networking skills are more valuable than service desk. It's amazing how many service desk folks have a chip on their shoulder because they never moved on.
networking skills are more valuable than service desk
Only true until you drop your laptop. Then the value of that service desk work skyrockets.
Would be very cool and good if IT folks weren't constantly in a dick-measuring contest and could see the forest for the trees. Maybe we're all getting underpaid, relative to the suits six floors up, and we'd do well to stand by each other instead of bickering over who works the hardest.
Open and admin window in on windows and do a deltree on C:\windows\system32
Profit
I've had corporate VPs ask me to PDF Excel files because they don't know how.