Hey Gideon,
You know lately the IT business has become a commodity business, and for you to have any meaningful impact, you need to hone you people skills which are now becoming more important than technical skills.
You need to show an employer why the should have you in the their IT department rather than some soulless technician working in some outsourcing company somewhere maybe even in India or Kazakhstan or even Timbuktu. The reason why companies and employers have IT departments is for these kind of skill, not the technical ones, but I am not saying technical skills are invalid but they are just part of the package. And they are willing to pay a premium for them. Otherwise they could just Google or Bing.
Cheers.