Network Management Strategies for the CIO
Requires Free Membership to View
Given your number of years of experience, and your current pay grade, you
may have trouble swallowing the kind of pay cut that might be necessary to
let you switch from LAN to WAN specialization. If you're lucky, your current
employer hires both kinds of people. If that's the case, I'd urge you first
and foremost to approach your current employer about changing roles. That's
about the only way I think you'll be able to avoid dropping down from your
current pay level to a level commensurate with an entry-level IT WAN
professional. I'm sorry to say that changing specialties sometimes incurs
these kinds of penalties, particularly in the current economic climate where
keeping salary costs down (or even reducing existing salary costs) is more
or less a given in many high-tech companies.
An internal transfer will let you avoid or reduce the pain of a pay cut.
Otherwise, you may have little or no choice. Given your current experience
and your probable level of pay, I'd also urge you to contact a technical
recruiter to see what kind of help may be available there. The more flexible
you can be about pay and location, the more likely you are to be able to
make the switch you desire; the less flexible you can afford to be, the
lesser the number of options you'll probably have.
Sorry. HTH,--Ed--
This was first published in May 2001
Join the conversationComment
Share
Comments
Results
Contribute to the conversation