well, IT used to mean just about anything that has to do with computers. Today, that no longer applies as people have hyper specialized. That term no longer includes cloud engineers, programmers, cyber security, etc. it wouldn’t surprise me at all if only 700 new positions for IT admins were opened up last year.
Titles in "IT" have never really matched up to what people actually do. Ive worked a single job where I had 5 different titles depending on what client the boss had me talking to. None of it really mattered and in the end all of it was just "IT".
Point being you’re not going to have an engineer making 200k in cyber security fixing your printer or fixing someone’s folder privileges or installing software. They are completely different pay levels and district roles now. It didn’t used to be, so some older people inappropriately apply the term as it was used 20 years ago. That was my only point.
That might be true in some orgs but I have been in a position where I have had to do "client desk work" at the same time as re-designing the datacenter (including networking, security, power, etc). It really depends on where you are.
It should not be like that but it still is. (sometimes)
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