Showerthought: I turned down a $5k raise to stay at my current help desk job last month.

The other offer was for a network admin role, but I realized I actually like solving people's immediate tech problems more than managing systems. Has anyone else picked a job they enjoy over a bigger title?

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the_elizabeth17d ago

So you like solving the immediate problems more. Was it just the day to day work that made you choose, or was there something about the network admin role that really put you off?

baker.ben17d ago

Remember my buddy who took a network admin job right out of school? He spent a whole week just trying to get approval to change a single firewall rule, it was insane. He said it felt like his main job was filling out forms and waiting for emails, not actually fixing anything. Watching him deal with all that red tape totally showed me the parts of IT I didn't want, lol. I'd lose my mind if I couldn't just jump in and solve stuff.