No, I'm not going to take over your entire IT department ...

I've been looking around for other opportunities in IT (networking, infrastructure, security, etc.). I have over 20 yeas experience.

But it is all crap out there, basically consisting of companies that want you to do the jobs of 3-4 people, be on call 24/7/365, and travel 30% of the time. Recruiters routinely lie about the scope of the job, downplay support requirements, and try to convince you it is "managerial" when it is an engineering role (aka, put in some equipment and then troubleshoot for the next 3 months)

Just talked to one tonight, and he was like "they need someone to come in and be a lead-architect and designer. It is mostly network, security, etc."

so I go look at the actual job advertisement. It is a "Senior Infrastructure Engineer" position, and in addition to knowing everything about networking (SD-WAN, VoIP, enterprise routing and switching, QoS, etc), they also want "Office 365, Windows Server, Linux, VMware vSphere 6.5, Hyper-V, DNS/DHCP Services, Active Directory, WSUS, and network monitoring, logging and event monitoring, anti-virus/malware endpoint software, security services, and server hardening"

oh, and you have to be an expert in storage too, and be willing to design, implement, and support networks in 30 different cities

contract to hire too!

yeah, I passed