[diseasedyak]

I've worked over 20 years as a DBA, mainly Oracle but also with Netezza, Teradata, Postgres, MS SQL Server, DB2, and Mongo. I would say DBAs are still in demand. I recently was laid off from a place that wanted to outsource DBAs and it took next to no time to find my new job. The pay is stellar, imo.

Having said all that, I could see it would be hard to decide right now, as a new IT person, to get into being a DBA. We wear so many hats, and are generally looked to for anything that needs to be done. As others have stated, a lot of companies don't seem to care that their queries are absolute shit, they just throw more hardware at the issue.