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Originally Posted by Z-man

Actually, I did get a promotion -- it has been a long time coming...

For the past 11.5 years, my title has been "Operations Support Analyst." (Started with MBUSA in October, 1998).

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So, as of today, I am officially the "Senior SAN / Storage Architect" for my company. (Personally, I thought "Zoltan, the Sultan of Storage" would have been a more snazzy title...) Pretty much the same (growing) responsibility I had before, but with the new job description, I moved up a band level, and they did give me a small raise.

-Z-man.

Wow, super cool. That sounds like it has been a LONG time coming. I hope you've been getting raises all this time. I'm assuming that the company is a great company to work for with great pay and benefits, otherwise, you've been getting royally screwed and you should leave. You seem too smart to have been in that situation. Congrats!

I can't even imagine. I'm in IT, and started at the bottom in 1998. The longest I've ever been anywhere is 4 years. I'd like to find a "home", but these days in IT, that's hard to do while getting a fair shake. The company that I work for now is a great company to work for. I hope to manage to stay for several years. Your story gives us IT folks hope.

I'll be pulling fiber cables in the datacenter tomorrow

Blech!! I hope you've got fiber tray, and won't be working under a raised floor. I don't mind doing really short runs of copper or fiber, but I'm not big on long runs or even worse, under the floor work. I'm glad we've got "guys" for cable work.