Career Growth--

hi
I have 11 years of experience and have worked in role of production dba, PL/SQL developer. I have shifted from being oracle production dba to full time pl/sql developer. I have more interest in solving oracle related issues.
as my experience is increasing my seniors expect me to shift to functional or project management role.. but my interest is towards oracle database..
i do not understand how should i go ahead. i do not want to do monotonous work.
please advise.
regards,

Although it's somewhat of a natural progression (a DBA is a technical manager, really), there are a couple of other career options you could pursue rather than moving into team management.
You could become a data architect: you could be the one who knows how x is linked with y and how it all fits together for the business.
You could become a DBA 'specialist' or 'guru': in our team, we have all senior DBAs but we all specialize in certain areas - Exadata/DW, RMAN, Data Guard, OEM. You could find a speciality that the company REALLY needs (for instance, I bet they REALLY need someone who knows backup and restores inside out, front-to-back and upside-down).
I do know of a lot of DBAs who have got 20 years under their belt and they're simply not cut out for management. They're excellent DBAs, they love doing their job and don't really have any wish to move 'up'.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_R/3
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* As a newbie in the job market, and a rather sucky job market at the moment, you're probably better off not being too picky. Take what you can get, as along as it's sort of generally in line with your overall long-term goals, and an area that's likely to have some future life. So if you only know and are only interested in hardcore number-crunching for massive theoretical physics calculation, then neither Java nor .NET is likely to hold much promise for you. On the other hand, if you're interested in general application development, business systems, developing tool sets, etc., then either one would probably serve you well. Neither is likely to vanish any time soon.
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