Sysadmins and system engineers/operation guys have it worse, at least in the software development companies were I worked up until now. Their role is not recogn

Sysadmins and system engineers/operation guys have it worse, at least in the software development companies were I worked up until now. Their role is not recognized at all up until data starts getting lost (and then people come crying and keep crying when you say that you don't have the data they want because they cut the budget and you just have the last 30 days), they are expected to be on call and fix or work around problems in 30 minutes (usually with no documentation at all), they have to implement "horizontally scalable cloud platforms" and mantain those with the software being completely unable to scale or relying on third party middleware that does not support even clustering (because developers did not want to admit those problems when the marketing pushed for that "implementation" so they could sell it). The list goes on and on. Ah, obviously those poor people can only dream some of the salary the programmers are making. They are just 'disk swappers', after all, as one of my old bosses said. If the company you are working for is bad, and you feel like that, change it. Unfortunately there is no other choice.