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Journal ellem's Journal: Promotion and Raise... 22

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I'm now a CIO and I make fuckload more money.

I'm really uncomfortable with the title. I don't think I'm a CIO. I'm not even a CTO. I only have like 11 people directly under me and I only support about 700 users (UK to CA).

I'm really a Sys Admin with a tie.

I'd be embarrassed to put CIO on my resume. I'm so not a CIO. I saw one once. He looked wealthier than me.

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  • ...position, just gimmie a buzz, k? ;)
  • ...welcome the new Chief Information Overlord. :-)

    Congrats. More money is almost always good.
  • nice man - i hope you really enjoy it.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by ellem ( 147712 ) *
      I have to tell you the truth I feel like ... like no one should be calling me CIO.

      Of course now the subscription to CIO makes sense.
      • Congrats anyway.
        And if you feel bad about the money, let me know. I'll be happy to ease your burden. :-D

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by ellem ( 147712 ) *
          Oh no the money is good.

          The raise is more than I made my first two years of working (in high school not real jobs).
      • you shouldn't sweat it. i had a friend who was an accountant and she worked for a small company - they called her the controller. drove my other accountant friend nuts. but the thing is - titles are meaningless unless you care. you know who you are and what you do- and as long as you are happy with the work and compensation - who cares what they call you?
        • Agreed. Technically, I'm the Managing Partner, but it's a tiny firm that my wife and I started. When anybody asks what I do, I usually reply that I'm the "Executive Flunky".
  • I'm really uncomfortable with the title. I don't think I'm a CIO.

    Sure you are. That's what it says on your business cards, right? Besides, it's just a title.

    I'm really a Sys Admin with a tie.

    Sounds familiar (except I didn't wear a tie). They struggled a bit to find a suitable job title for me. I was head of IT operations. But company policy says there's only allowed to be one "head of" position per department, and that was taken by my boss (the CTO). So I ended up as "chief systems administrator". Som

  • I'm so not a CIO. I saw one once. He looked wealthier than me.

    He's just had more time to buy rich people stuff. You'll get there.
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  • Making a fuckload of money is mostly fun because then you can spend a fuckload of money, not that I know, but I can imagine.
  • You sure you didn't get that promotion by finding the swan twanger in the previous CIO's desk?

    ;-)

    Seriously though - congratulations. CIO is a cool title, and soon enough you will be making those strategic decisions that make or break the company.

    Not to put any pressure on you....

  • I'm not in the mood to talk to someone who just got a raise and promotion, ok?

    Also, you're doing something that I do way too much of. I hate it in myself so it realy pisses me off in you.

    Can the doubt. What are you worth? You're worth what they pay you, bubby. Other people whose titles start with "Chief" have decided that they don't want anybody (but themselves, perhaps, but not always) telling you what to do with the technology. They want you to make those decisions, they want you to give them the ben
  • Congrats on the bump-up, and I know what you mean not feeling comfortable with the title, but hell, sounds like you put in the time, you know the place, you can do the job. So take it and own it.

    Titles are just there to make it easy to setup an organizational hierarchy :)

  • Someday I want to be an information systems architect.

    That way I can just read white papers and tell the engineering teams what we should be doing.

    (Yeah, I know there's more to it, but that's the fun part!)
  • If you hate the title, you could always ask for Chief Information Architect. Better business card. :P

    Hey, when I was first a SysAdmin, I wasn't very sysadminy. I never really felt sysadminy, but I got the job done.

    I think it's a good thing, on some level. Being in a job where you are completely confident and comfortable seems, hmmm, boring. Sure, it'd be nice in some lines of work, but I don't work in those lines, and neither do you. Uncertainty makes, well, me anyway, want to learn, to grow, to gain the ha

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