Re: Career path of a ORACLE DBA

I think the original poster makes one good point--any job you have that's tied to a technology will eventually become a dead-end job unless you become an absolute master. Most top-DBAs, top developers, top sysadmins, etc, change roles often take on new technologies. And since those new technologies keep coming, you adapt your role. For example, a DBA of six or seven years ago might know nothing about SANs and SAN backup and clustering. Now...valuable job skill--and you can potentially go different directions with it.

As far as management and tech people--in a lot of cases, if you want to stay with the same company, yes, you'll likely move into mgmt if you want to advance financially. But--there's always more independent work, and other companies.

The best companies out there offer technical career paths that allow you to progress up the ladder without needing to become a people manager.

Jer Received on Tue Jan 27 2004 - 01:13:40 CST