I am system administrator in an IT company in Bangalore for last two years. I have completed my post-graduate degree in commerce, and later on I found my interest in computer hardware and networking and, therefore, shifted to Bangalore to explore my career in right direction. I am technically good and looking for best opportunity to prove myself in this field.
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My observations towards this field:
Before joining the company my assumption regarding System Administrator’s roles and responsibilities was very limited. As per my earlier view, System administrator has merely the role of handling and taking care of IT equipments and solving upcoming day to day issues and that is all and over. Later I realized the truth that I was thoroughly unprepared and unaware of System administrative work. As the days passed and I involved into many activities and came to know it is not that simple as I presumed. Once you deal with unknown/new problems and you don’t find any way or person who can assist or support and make you comfortable, then situation become more difficult to handle.
Basically I observed some real facts that, obviously, pinpoint a negative aspect of this field, and we cannot deny it just like that, as since I started working in this field and found that people don’t prefer to share their experience, the way of working or the knowledge they have. They intentionally avoid teaching/guiding each others, and of course there are some actual facts and figures responsible to make us building such non-helping nature/habit. Indeed it is difficult to search out reasons why it happens? But though there are certain points, as follows, that seem to be valid for representing that kind of environment among all of us:
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Reasons for not supporting each others:
- Circumstances that makes an engineer unfavorable in nature:
- In initial stage, Hardware engineer starts working from the bottom level of this field, and work extremely hard to establish himself in this field, physically and mentally too, moreover he notices some beginners failing and leaving out from this field.
- He hardly get favorable opportunity to learn from others, whatever he learns, learns from his day-to-day working experience and mistakes.
- His learning undergoes very long time-period and step-by-step he understands how to manage and how to find solutions to the problems.
- In certain cases, where engineer finds himself alone without any supporter/instructor/guide to solve hang up issues.
- System engineer obviously works very hard to learn or to understand the things, as because he values his effort behind the experience he gained, and how can he share his knowledge to someone so easily?
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- Environment in company: (Especially in small organization)
- Whenever he makes mistake, he has to be responsible for all that, instead of the whole supportive team.
- Whenever he performs well, initiative is taken by whole team or company. he is, personally, not much appreciated by others. Especially in small organization, sometime Appreciation of an engineer is neglected as it creates a chance for an engineer to know his value and importance in company, And it is indirectly unfavorable to beginners who has aim to prove himself and grow his career.
- Everyone prefer to grow as individual than as a group.
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- Competition: Even engineers are very gentle people, though they do not support each other just because of competition. of course, this is the Competition that makes them to build-up this unfavorable and non-supporting nature. i.e.
- Everyone likes to be better than other; therefore they do not motivate others to perform better.
- Having more knowledge than other is a big comfort for any engineer.
- And I personally feel nothing wrong here because, indeed, it has to happen wherever the competition exists. Hence working hard and making skillful image in our site is more important rather than building image in front of company, and we are supposed to have strong belief that we deserve the position what we hold. These unfavorable feelings and gaps that increase differences among all of us should be removed from the mind and take initiative of supporting each other. We should forget all competitive feelings towards each other and work together. In fact, it doesn’t mean that we cannot improve by ourselves; obviously our experience makes us skillful and strong to deal with problems, but it takes time, and we cannot leave ourselves on upcoming time and opportunity, because the reality emphasize and make us think that the completion is much higher and we have to be very fast in learning, achieving, developing our self with our goals in this field.
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