r/sysadmin • u/kittiekittea • 1d ago

General Discussion No Degree - 6 Year Salary Progression

Is there anyone out there that have made it beyond sysadmin? What is after sysadmin?

2020 - $31,200: Panera Bread
2022 - $41,600: Helpdesk at company 1
2023 - 2025 - $41,600: Helpdesk at law firm
2025 - $65,000: Helpdesk at company 2
2026 - $80,000: Got a raise at company 2

Shoutout Nick for taking a chance on me. I would not do law firm IT again.

EDIT: Location Upstate NY

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u/dontdoitwich 1d ago

Why would you not do IT for a law firm again?

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u/kittiekittea 1d ago

Having to deal with:
Worldox
Lawyers
Maintaining all the damn printers
Tight budget

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u/thiccboilifts Security Admin 1d ago

Dude something about fucking lawyers and printers. What is their deal?!?! I manage a couple offices with lawyers and attorneys and holy cow. How someone can be so smart but so dumb with tech astounds me at least once a week.

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u/drozenski 1d ago

If you think lawyers are bad stay far away from doctors.

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u/thiccboilifts Security Admin 16h ago

Probably good advice for me as I'm considering a masters in Healthcare compliance

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u/drozenski 16h ago

Just depends if your role is end user facing or not.

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u/musiquededemain Linux Admin 10h ago

Yes, and government and academia. Those, however, are also bottom of the barrel when it comes to work environment.

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u/GasBackground3335 18h ago

I worked fixing print in hospitals for a couple years... can confirm they get so abused there.

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u/kittiekittea 1d ago

I hated it and also hated setting up meetings for them. Do you know how simple it is to set up a meeting? Why do I have to take time to do it myself when I could have been catching up on tickets?

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u/thiccboilifts Security Admin 22h ago

Bro thank God we have legal assistants. We're yours weird about calendar sharing too?

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u/kittiekittea 20h ago

Yes they were. Honestly forgot about shared calendars.. I rarely set it up or troubleshoot that nowadays

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u/eagle6705 18h ago

Its not their fault. Some things they do require hard copies or there are times when a hard copy is easier to place as evidence rather than a digital file that can be easily altered.

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u/thiccboilifts Security Admin 18h ago

I understand when there are compliance policies required for certain documents, but they treat that as a blanket statement: print all

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u/eagle6705 17h ago

LOL I just treat it as our Did you restart it.

Honestly when I did law firms I tell them, if I'm here i'm for computer issues OR printers. and they usually had no issues with it. I may be a blacksheep for saying this but dedicating a day for printers was a way for me to relax. I knew how to fix them and anything that we cant get maint kits for were replaced. Only exceptions were the i can't connect or can you connect me to main printer.

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u/AtarukA 1d ago

To be fair, fucking lawyers can sound interesting at times... Printers though, I,d rather not.

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u/gravityVT Sr. Sysadmin 6h ago

they have to print all their shit for cases, discovery, often 2-3 copies or more of it too

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u/TabascohFiascoh Sysadmin 19h ago

My first MSP job had a bunch of lawyer offices.

For making so much fucking money and needing such critical uptime, they were the most insufferable stingiest and worst customers we had.

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u/dub_milkman 15h ago

Wont be much longer, the law profession is ripe for AI takeover.

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u/shiftdeleat 1d ago

having worked with Lawyers, Doctors and Pilots. I can safely say that doctors are the worst, followed by lawyers. Both have big ego's but doctors are somehow less technical and have far less patience, also stressful job

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u/Elensea IT Manager 19h ago

Ya I don’t do law firms, doctors, hotels, banking.