What is your expected career path?

[IceBergSLiM]

nobody is planning career changes. Interesting.

 

[LegendKiller]

Jr. Analyst > Sr. Analyst > Manager > VP (now) > Director >Group Head >Managing Director > SVP

 

[Martin]

Consultant (now) -> I haven't a clue -> not even the faintest clue

I'm just gonna hang out and see what comes along.

 

[Squisher]

I was thinking:
Retired-->Lazy SOB who fixes stuff around the house

But knowing my wife it'll probably be:
Retired-->lazy slob-->owner of some bakery-->wife's personal slave boy

 

[jjones]

small business owner -> medium business owner -> big business owner -> dead before I can enjoy the benefits of my hard work

 

[Toastedlightly]

1. Graduate College
2. Become a chemical engineer
3. Profit.

 

[Gooberlx2]

College (Biology/CS)--> Aquarium Biologist Intern --> Biologist I --> Biologist II --lateral move--> Aquaculture Fish Biologist (now) --> ????

I'm trying to make a career change, probably into either biotech or education...but I'm tired of fish.

 

[Aikouka]

SE Assc. -> SE -> Senior SE -> Technical Engineer (research mostly) -> and so on down this path.

I don't have much of a desire to do management, but I'd be quite interested in research.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: joshsquall
From where you are now, to where you want to be, what is your expected career path?

Mine is something like this:

Developer -> Senior Developer (currently) -> System Architect -> Director of IT -> CTO

Since when do IT monkeys make it to CTO? I thought software engineers eventually end up as CTOs.

me:

Staff -> Senior Financial Analyst -> Accounting Manager/Asst Controller -> Controller -> VP Finance -> CFO

 

[destrekor]

Student (IS: Security and Intel)/Cadet -> 2LT -> LT -> CPT -> MAJ -> LTC -> COL (I want to retire, and at least hopefully reach Lieutenant Colonel before I retire, if at 20 years it appears I may be up for consideration, I'd stay on board for a few more years). [military retirement] -> maybe DoD civilian occupation, regarding intelligence or something where a former senior officer could provide input, such as R&D.

 

[dawnbug]

Teacher -> Better Teacher

Possible segues include going into library sciences and either becoming a school librarian or following some other path in library sciences, or going into administration. Right now, I'm looking forward to starting on my teacher path, though.

 

[homercles337]

Not so much expected (thats a big ?), but past:

Experimental Psych (ba) -> Visual Neuroscience (phd) <-> CS/EE/Statistics (postdoc #1) <-> CS/Statistics (postdoc #2) <-> microscopy image analysist (staff scientist) -> Cheminformatics (current) -> image analysis (future).

Some things are bidirectional because the transition was *very* gradual.

 

[Deeko]

Custodian -> President/Chairman/CEO

 

[freegeeks]

Network Engineer > IT contractor (current) > my own dive shop in Egypt

I want to get out of the whole IT bs in a couple of years

 

[WombRaider]

crew > lead crew > ast. mgr > mgr > ast. store mgr > store mgr > ast. district mgr > district mgr

(mcdonald's)

 

[LS20]

Originally posted by: JS80

Since when do IT monkeys make it to CTO? I thought software engineers eventually end up as CTOs.

pretty sad that some companies have such a restricted advancement path. in our company of 60k+ we can see everyones career profile and people have done pretty much whatever... engineers in president of marketing, etc etc etc. ceo is history major who started doing accounting type work, etc

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: joshsquall
I'm speaking about my company, not the industry norm. There is nothing above Project Manager if you choose that track.

Highly unlikely. That may be your perception, but not the perception of others.

If you can't delegate or let go of the technical side of things, let others take the technical lead, let others handle the grunt work then you will not advance.

A director is a manager of departmental resources, a CTO is nothing more than a manager of resources but instead of managing a few departments and telling them where to go you are strategically steering the ship.

A technical person does not and cannot do this job because they can't let go of the technical side.

I don't know what to tell you. I'm telling you exactly how my company is. Project Manager is the end game for that route.

PM is the last stop in my company too. in that area at least. the tehnical can go a lot farther, make more and last longer. and directors are generally considered a management position as far as im concerned. the director of IT for most of the cities i work with is the top dog, the guy that tells someone to sign my checks. id say that was a position built on delegation.

 

[oddyager]

Jr. Network Admin -> Sr. Network Admin -> Network Engineer -> IT/Proj Manager

From there I'm not sure yet. Either continue to move up the corporate ladder or go into consulting.

 

[jandrews]

sysadmin inter>entry level helpdesk >help desk manager > Field technician manager (current) > customer services manager > VP

 

[D1gger]

President / CEO --> Retired and Living the Life of Riley

 

[herm0016]

for theater career: board op<lighting tech/deck carp.<lighting design/rigger<master carpenter/rigger(now)<master electriction<Tech. director

mechanical engineering: school<co-op (next semester)< job for experience and money< project is over so i get layed off < go on tour with big show for above career< job to make money < let go because of merger< etc.....

 

[RichUK]

Well, I?m already a Project Manager/Implementation Manager (one of many) who works on one of the UK?s largest contracts ? The MoD defence I.T. contract (~15 Billion pounds over 10 years).

I guess the next step is to either become an Astronaut or the President of the U.S.?

Seriously, though, I guess once I?ve built up my portfolio and finally attain my ITIL and Prince 2 certs, I?ll look to go into contract Project Management. Some of the best paid contractors that I work alongside are earning in excess of £800 a day ? that?s a shit ton more than I earn.

 

[child of wonder]

System Admin (currently, age 28) -> Sr. System Admin (by age 33) -> Project Manager or Director of IT (by age 40) -> Private consultant or CTO (by age 50) -> retire but do part time consulting (age 59) -> retire completely (age 63)

 

[qaa541]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
SE Assc. -> SE -> Senior SE -> Technical Engineer (research mostly) -> and so on down this path.

I don't have much of a desire to do management, but I'd be quite interested in research.

You must work at Cisco..... Sometimes I regret not going into the Associate SE program.... But now I don't regret a thing now that I landed a new job!

 

[jman19]

Meh.

Probably Analyst -> AVP -> school -> VP -> Director -> MD

Hopefully at some point I will break out of that and go to -> working for myself/consulting