Although you get to enjoy great new technologies, you are never allotted the time or the budget to really invest time into learning the technologies. It's incredibly common for one to be asked to immediately implement a technology into production with very little knowledge or training on how the product is to be used. Senior Management in IT is also very well known for not battling for their reports, direct management is often good at supporting their reports, but are immediately trumped by Sr. Management. It's quite obvious as well that the company rarely recognizes their employees' contributions.