Informal apprenticeship programs are how SysAdmins are made. It runs deep in our culture... A BOFH isn't a real BOFH until he he has a PFY. I don't know why t

Informal apprenticeship programs are how SysAdmins are made. It runs deep in our culture... A BOFH isn't a real BOFH until he he has a PFY. I don't know why this is missing from programming culture. Perhaps the education one can get at school is sufficient? It's hard, I think, to learn some aspects of the SysAdmin job on your own with your own hardware. You need larger clusters of systems and real users, and nobody is going to let someone without experience touch a large cluster without supervision.