Yeah, I was never a sysadmin, but for 8 months in my university days, I worked as a systems programmer for the CS Department at my university. I worked on stuff

Yeah, I was never a sysadmin, but for 8 months in my university days, I worked as a systems programmer for the CS Department at my university. I worked on stuff that automated system deployments, backups, imaging, etc. Its actually in the process of being open sourced now at http://www.labnet.ca/ http://www.labnet.ca/ (Its actually a pretty incredible system I recommend anyone who is interested in this type of stuff to check it out). Because of this I worked with some awesome sysadmins and unix/linux gurus so even though they were a bit rusty, I had enough core systems admin skills to have a good intuition about how to solve most of the problems I have normally. When I run into roadblocks I know some awesome sysadmins that I can hit up to get me over the hump.