First of all, unlike software development engineers, implementation developers seldom contact with project coding, and mainly focus on database operation, coding storage process and data conversion, so their coding ability is very weak after working for many years. However, the implementation development engineer knows the business logic of the project very well and is good at customer communication. Then, demand communication analysis is the main task, and for implementation engineers, project managers and management administration are the development direction. Of course, the database administrator is the most ideal position.
In other words, we actually have two development plans, the first is the project manager, and the second is the administrative management. You must be a project manager before becoming a database administrator.
The income of pre-implementation engineers is much higher than that of developers, because it involves subsidies. However, if you don't make your own direction clear as soon as possible in the later period, your income will enter a bottleneck period after 2-3 years, and your income will be at the lower-middle level, which is ok in Shandong. But working in Shanghai is too difficult for you ... but not bad for a fresh student.
Make your own plan as soon as possible, I believe you will have no problem!