You know, the interesting thing to me as a sysadmin was coming to understand that tech is inside every industry, but not every industry is inside tech, if that

You know, the interesting thing to me as a sysadmin was coming to understand that tech is inside every industry, but not every industry is inside tech, if that makes any sense. In that way, I have seen the insides of hundreds of companies, from 2 man law firms to fortune 500 oil companies, and the almost universal thing I have found is that the tech side of the business is usually being underserved and under-represented in the boardroom. Think about how many senior sysadmins you know that answer to a CEO, or to a CFO, instead of a CTO or CIO... What is going on in my opinion is that without someone playing the business-political games for them, tech workers almost always are forced to move companies in order to find upward mobility. I got burnt out in my last position dealing with this very situation, and so I have been spending more time trying to understand how the best CTOs and CIOs do their job, so that I can eventually help other sysadmins/future employers understand how to fill that gap since management largely doesn't understand the technical debt they create by cutting short-term costs in that way.