Hi, I have been a Solaris/SGI admin (2 years) and software engineer (10 years) in my life. The reason why sysadmins can't write software is this: Every day sysa

Hi, I have been a Solaris/SGI admin (2 years) and software engineer (10 years) in my life. The reason why sysadmins can't write software is this: Every day sysadmin stuff like pulling cable, installing OS's, fixing printers does not require someone whose super intelligent. But real IT work-- setting up domain controllers, running a global corporate network, running a cloud service, etc takes a fair amount of brains yet a lot of companies compensate their IT departments as if they're well paid cable monkeys. The skill sets for a good programmer and a good sysadmin overlap somewhat. But you can make MUCH MORE MONEY writing software. In the early 2000's when I was a sysadmin jobs in my area were paying 40k-60k a year. Programming jobs were paying 60k-100k. So basically, poorly payed IT positions select out anyone who could actually do a good job at them because those very people can make more money writing software