Maybe it's better to know avg programming and avg administration and use both skills to do something really interesting? Advantages: use existing codebase, fill

Maybe it's better to know avg programming and avg administration and use both skills to do something really interesting? Advantages: use existing codebase, fill holes with own code and set up infrastructure for a project. With a smile :-) Disadvantages: mastering specific areas, but this could be personal preference because having more then one person collaborating on the same thing can be real painful. It all depends.