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Become a sysadmin that writes tools (which is more like old-school system programmer, the one who wrote grep and syslog and init and bash and awk). Since you're
by dozzie 10y ago
Become a sysadmin that writes tools (which is more like old-school system
programmer, the one who wrote grep and syslog and init and bash and awk).
Since you're nominally a sysadmin, nobody will look at your workbench to check
if you're using "kosher" languages, so you're free to use whatever makes sense
to solve a problem (hint: not always a functional language).
Been there, done that, been happy with the approach.
- rebeccaskinner 10y agoI know a couple of people who do something like that. I don't think it would work well for me though, since I had to resign from my current job because although it was a developer role there was a good bit of sysadmin required and I just find that work extremely unrewarding.