First of all, the traditional sysadmin role is not going away any time soon. It's changing constantly as any tech job is not the same as 10 years ago (obviously

First of all, the traditional sysadmin role is not going away any time soon. It's changing constantly as any tech job is not the same as 10 years ago (obviously there are some rare exceptions). You gotta adapt and constantly learn new stuff, and there are enough roles to grow into like DevOps, security or cloud architecture. But if you love programming go for it, you can always change back if you don't like it.