Why Become a Computer Systems Manager?

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"This is, you know when it turns red like that, just depending on you know, which process is making it happen, we will react. But right now I mean, is just a long running request so we know what that is. It kind of just kind of happened, I mean I had my own company and it was just the timing of it but I chose the, well I did do some choosing, I mean I chose to become a manager. I think the reason why is I been in the field now for about fifteen years, maybe a little less, maybe fourteen. But it comes a point I think in every IT person or IT's you know, engineer's life where you get tired of doing the detailed work, like reading all the knowledge based articles and figuring out how to do this and this and this and making it work just this way. And in order to get away from that you still want to do technology, you want to be abreast of the new stuff and be able to implement cool stuff, but you don't want to have to actually do the little mundane details, and well I don't say they're mundane but you know, the details of actually implementing. So being a manager you're able to stay you know, pretty abreast of the technology but you're able to have, if you're surrounded say with the right people, have good people to implement the technology and you know, as you lay out the plan. So, it's kind of getting away from the trenches a little bit but still being in the technology field. The job that I was at for quite some time, and I jumped ship and actually went you know, started my own company. I really, I guess that's when it all happened because I had to be a manager, I had to manage myself, I had to manage my time, I had to manage my finances, I had to you know, do a lot, it was just a all around management at that point you know. So I think that's when I decided. It was about a year before I left that job. I planned, I just planned and got myself out of debt and just planned to jump ship and do my own company and this is how it happened, you know. I jump in to it and hope for the best. You know I never had like a, I'm going to be a fire fighter when I grow up. I never had, you know when I was young I just kind of went with the flow man. I think at one time I wanted to be a professional BMX bicycle rider. I remember getting real kind of involved you know, heavy in to that. I also was a, you know, I liked music. I wanted to kind of do something in music, which I did for a while. But you know, I don't know, when I met with my adviser, when I started college right after high school, you know, even then I didn't know. I went to the college and met with, it was a lady I met with her and just said well, you know she kind of went over a couple of different fields that she thought I may be interested. I did like to architectural draw. I was really good at that in high school. But she laid out a couple and I said, well which one makes more money? And she said, well probably computer technology, you know eventually, which was a good call because this was you know, early nineties. You know, it was just now ramping up real tough. So that's kind of how it happened, you know."