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My recommendation (if you don't already have the skill set), is to move towards Unix/Linux administration. A good linux admin can make 100-150k easily. I started out as a Windows admin 20+ years ago, then Netware Admin, then a SCO Openserver Unix admin, then Solaris, then into Linux...now I'm purely in software development.
A good linux admin is harder to find than a windows admin (just my opinion, hiring hundreds of admins over the years). You will be challenged all the time. You will learn to program. Every good linux admin knows shell scripting, perl, ruby, python, etc... They say a "lazy admin is the best admin", because the lazy admin tends to automate (script) everything. You will also have plenty of opportunities to program for and work with relational databases.
I went to college in Computer Science, so I was very familiar with C/C++. As a linux admin, you will get plenty of opportunities to learn how to program should you choose to go that route later on.
Buy yourself a raspberry pi ($35), and start learning linux. It can only help you down the road.
Best of luck!
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