Re:You're 25 years old... (Score 1)

Sorry Tom, you are 25 years old. Most people don't get to be IT managers until their mid-30s.

On the other hand I'm an IT manager at 27. Working at a company of 50 people with only 2 IT people I still get a decent share of the technical challenges, but also get to deal with the "bigger picture" stuff. So far it has been very rewarding and challenging, although it is tricky to ballance the priorities of running the department with fixing the systems. Its always easy to ignore the bits of management you don't want to do and deal with the technical stuff but that way lies a badly run department and big problems.

The main thing I have enjoyed about IT is the variety of technical challenges. Working in a small company you still get that.