Re: [Sheflug] public sector employment

["Jim Kerslake" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxx>]

my own experience...

Pretty frustrating and stressful, because lack of sensible resourcing and
perpetual idiotic re-organisations mean that you never actually get much
work done.  You spend most of your time in meetings trying to explain that
you are the only person who knows how to do 'x', and that therefore the more
meetings you go to,  the less 'x' will get done...

In local government, the whole show is ultimately run by the councillors,
which creates a blame-driven climate of permanently-shifting priorities, and
no real ability to plan long-term.

There tends to be a tremendous shortage of competent staff, because those
who are any good get poached.  Quite high staff turnover, therefore.

If you can stand the environment, then pay and prospects can be good -
you'll probably end up Head of IT because all the other candidates just
quit,  and the budget for re-advertising their jobs got cut in last month's
spending round.   At that level, it's about budget and time management and
politics more than technical ability.

Oh, and they tend to be totally in hock to Microsoft...
Just about the whole of the nhs,  and most of local gov't, seems to run on
Windows.
[maybe not all their back-end systems yet,  but most of the desktop/web
front end stuff].


> interesting?
if you like politics, flying by the seat of your pants, and resurrecting
dead NT servers to a deadline, then yes
:-)

Jim
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Subject: [Sheflug] public sector employment


> i am just wondering, what's work like in the public sector (nhs, local
> goverment, etc). i am looking at network manager, engineer etc. is it
stable
> employment? good pay? training? interesting?
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> anyone?
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