Oh no youโre not. If youโre in my field, youโre never off the help desk. No matter how high up you get, many people still see you as the โcomputer janitor.โ I get paid big but I still end up asking people, โAre you sure itโs plugged in?โ Half the time, itโs not. And thatโs not even the worst of it.
The reality is that in my field, youโre always help desk because they keep making dumber users and due to lack of a real pipeline the techs arenโt so great anymore, either. So we senior people are never not help desk because more and more stuff makes it past the first three levels of support who now canโt troubleshoot a goddamn thing.