So you wanna be a SysAdmin?
November 3, 2004 Posted by mitch | technology, work | 0 Comments
Linux.com has their weekly editorial of SysAdmin to SysAdmin. Today they published one titled "So you wanna be a SysAdmin". I liked the article so I thought I'd share it. Couple things I liked the mose are quoted below:
You can't get a certificate in administration, get a job, and stay put until retirement. You won't last three years. The job demands that you stay on top of new technologies.
The goal of the administrator is to automate oneself out of a job. This involves not only knowing tools, networking, systems, and services, but the scripting languages to make the tools, networking, systems and services take care of themselves.
However, the important thing to remember is that system administration is more than just a job. It's a lifelong craft. Technology is such that no one person ever knows everything about it. It forces you to keep learning and evolving along with it or be left behind.
Anyhow, I worked my way into system administration through a specialized fasion... From being helpdesk's web admin, and then promoted to the corporate DNS and DHCP admin with some inter-department web administration still. All and all its been fun, just need to keep on pushing to get where I really want to be...
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