Personal anecdotes here. I never occurred to me that people who could program couldn't do some sysadmin stuff to some extends until I work a small contract in a

Personal anecdotes here. I never occurred to me that people who could program couldn't do some sysadmin stuff to some extends until I work a small contract in a company. A day I was to demoing something there was a problem, so I fired Powershell to to some command line stuff... and someone asked "why do you have IT skills?". At first, I didn't even understand the question, I mean, installing systems, playing with VM, and the like was my daily bread, so I thought it was the some for every programmers... Another day, I went to the local of the university's CS student association. I was excited about what I did the previous day so I told after entering: "yesterday I installed FreeBSD in a virtual machine and did XX". One people replied by what is a virtual machine, and another by what is FreeBSD. I explain to them briefly then left wondering where the people actually interested by the field were. It turns out I met some of them a few months/years later. Both mostly self learners, one with formal training in theology and the other a musicology.