No. I personally do enjoy engineering tasks. As an ops guy though I find I look at things a bit differently and often end up as a resource for the programmers t

No. I personally do enjoy engineering tasks. As an ops guy though I find I look at things a bit differently and often end up as a resource for the programmers to help them understand how to fit their apps into our existing infrastructure. I personally, as a hobby do application development, I wrote and manage unscatter.com. It's not a case of I am superior to our programmers, it's a case of the expectations of me are different. It's not my job to make great programs, it's my job to make sure all the great programs run correctly. I'm expected to keep Exchange working, apache working, manage dns and a few other systems to to date today and tomorrow a whole other set of services to be managed. I rely on our programmers to have the time to focus on one thing so I can spread my time managing everything else.