There is a reason: In-demand tech job pays six-figure salary while offering very flexible hours - and you don't even need a degree

[DrQ]

In-demand tech job pays six-figure salary while offering very flexible hours - and you don't even need a degree​

In-demand tech job pays six figures - and you don't need a degree

There's one job in tech that's in major demand, doesn't require a four-year degree and can pay six figures.

www.dailymail.co.uk

HA, IDK if any ou you have been in a datacenter, they are soulless places. We has a colocation in a major datacenter. There is an omnipresent whine of the fans and endless racks and racks of 1U and 4U servers. Hefting a 4U server into a rack is no fun task to do day in and day out, chasing cables and the tedium of making sure that the ends are correct when they go into the switches and routers. We had hundreds of servers managed by the datacenter with dual NICs for redundancy and it was never correct.

There are access control mantraps throughout the facility with multi-factor authentication and when things are going well, you are just watching "paint dry". When things go bad, it's pandemonium.

There are complaints from communities outside bitcoin mines:

 

[Brett]

The dailymail "borrowed" a story from the Wall St Journal

“The data-center industry is growing gangbusters" - Pay for data technicians jumped by 43% during the past three years.

 

[DrQ]

The dailymail "borrowed" a story from the Wall St Journal

I could have cited the source but then some people would be crying about "paywall"

Go figure.

 

[DrQ]

“The data-center industry is growing gangbusters" - Pay for data technicians jumped by 43% during the past three years.

Have you been inside a datacenter for any length of time?

 

[jp10558]

I wouldn't want to be a data center technician. I find it a PITA enough to go into the server rooms for a bit the few times I really need to install / do stuff.

 

[Brett]

Have you been inside a datacenter for any length of time?

No, but I've been in a big NASA data center with racks stacked to the ceiling
Those "technicians" got paid pretty good

 

[DrQ]

No, but I've been in a big NASA data center with racks stacked to the ceiling
Those "technicians" got paid pretty good

Can't say anything about the NASA datacenter, but the datacenter we used spanned several blocks, had 3 separate wings and each wing was filled with racks containing 10's of thousands of servers in each wing. We were running discrete servers because we were running Oracle S/W which had draconian licensing costs for VM's, so we were running hundreds of servers in their operation and we were a small part of it. And this place is dwarfed by Amazon's and Google's datacenters.

If you are going to school and work nights, it's a good way to work and go to school.