I'm apprenticing a junior sys admin right now. He's been with me for 2 years now. It's not a formal apprenticeship, but I took him out of the help desk (where

I'm apprenticing a junior sys admin right now. He's been with me for 2 years now. It's not a formal apprenticeship, but I took him out of the help desk (where he worked on Windows) and now he is a solid junior Linux sys admin. This was on an Ops team of two (and now three). May sys admins I know have juniors they are apprenticing in a similar fashion. This is a fairly traditional way to make a sysadmin (on the job training).