“Is the Current Job Market Impacting Opportunities for Sys Admin Roles, or Is It Just Me?”
Seeking Community Input on Job Market for Sys Admin Roles
Hey there, friends!
As a 25-year-old male working as a Sys Admin at a small MSP with a diverse range of tasks, including tier 1 help desk support and technical installations, I can’t help but wonder about the current state of the job market.
My Current Situation:
- Working at a small MSP with 20+ clients, alongside two other team members
- Tasks vary from help desk support to technical installations
- Salaried at 50k with limited opportunity for advancement
Despite my boss offering me ownership of the company in the future, I’m hesitant due to uncertainties about business ownership.
Seeking New Opportunities:
I’ve been actively applying for new roles but have had limited success so far.
Are others experiencing similar challenges in the job market for sys admin roles? I fear being stuck in a role that hinders my growth and income potential. Any insights, advice, or shared experiences are greatly appreciated!
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The whole tech market is shit right now. It’s not just you. There’s tons of posts just like this if you want to see more input, but everyone is having the same issues right now in their job search and have been for quite some time.
Both, even during covid it was heavily emphasized that you need to specialize.
Market sucks, if your skills are in a niche, it sucks a little less.
More resume feedback never hurts, but if you’reconfidentthat it’s well polished then sure, blame the current market and hope for better times.
“My boss even offered to give me ownership of the company when he’s ready to retire.”
Is this for real?
I hope he’s showing you the ropes on this. This is a great opportunity to stay always employed. As long as you learn how to run the business (i.e. obtain business acumen) – you can be a success at a higher level.
I’m an unemployed SysAdmin with 10 years of IT experience. I live in Seattle and I check LinkedIn and all the usual job boards. It’s insane how little SysAdmin jobs are even being posted. In the past week on LinkedIn, with search criteria of “Systems Administrator + 25 miles + Onsite + Hybrid” there are 15 jobs, with most being an hour commute. Other weeks there has been 5 SysADmin jobs posted. I literally apply to all of the ones I am 50% qualified for. At this point, there just aren’t enough jobs to apply to. The remote jobs are pretty much not worth applying to as they get hundreds of applicants within 2 days. I’m not sure what to do at this point.
At this point just be happy you have a job. Its hard out there. I am a system admin for a university and I hate every part of it. I honestly wish I stayed with my desktop support job. I was hired under the basis that I didn’t know aton of system admin stuff but they hired me anyway. Now they just critize me for not knowing certain things but I’m catching on.
Its hard out there. I have over 10 years experience and am not getting any call backs
Sounds like he is using you
It’s not great for most people but largely depends what you’re applying to and how your resume stacks up.
I rebuilt my resume from the ground up in late January using a simple ATS-friendly template. I found postings on Indeed and LinkedIn but stuffed my resume full of keywords from the posts and applied directly on the company sites.
15 total applications netted 4 companies interested and I now work for one of them. In addition to the resume, I very much credit not applying through Indeed or LinkedIn wherever possible.
there are 2 reasons it has gone down hill in the last few years.
1. We went from a market that was worker based where companies needed us so we can easily jump job to job, to now a Employer based job market where we need the job but they can now give the job to the cheapest person to pay.
2. out sourcing. Many companies go through this wave at some point it will be cheaper to outsource support to save costs which then diminish quality till they eventually come back to internal support because quality of support was so bad it was losing them money.
Companies dont ever learn from there mistakes so because job market is horrendous right now doesnt mean it will always be like this there is up and downs in all job markets around employment and sadly thats tied to economy when economic times are rough, like right now. jobs arent hiring a lot right now, despite advertising they are which I hate, which now makes us having a wide variaty of people looking for jobs and the companies having the pick of the best at the cheapest cost.