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why not a sys admin? its fairly easy work 95% of the time ...

• pclark 18y ago
  given the up votes, I thought I'd elaborate. I spend 3 days a week as a sys admin, and 2 days a week freelance/working on startup. (was freelance mostly, now mostly startup) sys admin is good work - i'm particularly lucky - my company is very flexible, and Mac OS X.
• staunch 18y ago
  Totally depends on the company. Some admin jobs are basically NOC and some are more non-stop engineering. Make sure you know which one you're signing up for.
• lallysingh 18y ago
  Really? All the sysadmins I've met worked their asses off all the time. Firefighting with too much on the plate & too little time & resources to make it all happen. The worst is usually the same people get the calls about the primary app server being down as someone's windows box having too many popups.
• gaius 18y ago
  I think sitting in the NOC watching screens and responding to the odd alert might be, but 2nd and 3rd line SAs (and DBAs) are working at at least as hard as the programmers (in fact to borrow an old IBM-ism are "systems programmers").