What jobs exist in IT?
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Depends on what one considers to be IT.
I've worked at companies where software development was part of IT. Well, called EDP at that time, but eventually EDP was rebranded IT.
And at companies where software development (for line-of-business applications) was not part of IT.
IT that kept the phones working, the LAN working, the WAN set up & firewalled, the file servers running & backed-up, the SQL servers working, the SQL administrators keeping the SQL systems efficient & with the proper topology for the business needs, the printers working & printer servers working, workstation acquisition & setup & installation, authentication servers, HTTP servers, Wiki servers (intranet & internet), email servers. IT that worked in cooperation with corporate facilities, with business units, with vendors. IT that minded licensing, and compliance, and security, and policy, and worked with the legal department.
IT is a big umbrella.
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No long time ago, I was a software engineer, but with good knowledge on IT in general, how to fix stuff, make stuff works, keep stuff working, improving stuff... and an opportunity to be a IT manager came to my hand and I embraced. On my context, the money was really good. But I did not drop dev for good, from time time some scripts are needed, plus this DEV XP help a lot troubleshooting some weird issues on the IT side of keeping the connection going on and fast.
In my case the business needed a trustworthy one to handle some tasks. Sometimes, you really do not need to be a rockstar, but a trustworthy person, with a clean background.
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