I'm not saying I can't do this. Or that you can't. I certainly do everything on my own when I'm starting something new as I'm sure many builders do. My point is

I'm not saying I can't do this. Or that you can't. I certainly do everything on my own when I'm starting something new as I'm sure many builders do. My point is that I don't think it's a sustainable assignment. When the sys admin job becomes big enough, admins will spend a ton of time doing simple repetitive tasks. I can't imagine a person with the neural architecture of a visionary/builder-of-things being willing to do this type of work for very long. Perhaps the fact that there are tools out there which automate repetitive sys admin tasks is a sign that these types of people have been placed in these jobs before and they did what they do best. Perhaps that's even reason enough to place them in these jobs to begin with. I may have just talked myself out of thinking this is a bad idea...