On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:53:47, "John C. Welch" wrote:
> On 6/28/06 08:25, "Simon Slavin" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> I am insulted when people think they can 'just pick up' my
>> profession. I'm even more insulted when people think they can do my
>> profession at the same time as another one. Sure, I can hack at a
>> piece of wood with a chisel. That doesn't make me a carpenter, and
>> anyone who would trust me with a mission-critical carpentry project
>> would be an idiot.
>
> Oh that. I blame the general "My Teenager can fix my home computer, so how
> hard can this sysadmin stuff be" attitude. When I worked for the City of
> Pinellas Park, one of the utility billing people said that after *he* had
> described our network to his *dentist*, the dentist said, "That AS/400
> stuff
> is all old. You could replace it with Windows (3.1 at the time, OS/2 2.1
> was
> BRAND new), and save a ton of money"
>
> I looked at him and said, "Make you a deal. I do your next root canal,
> your
> dentist can change our network however he pleases"
>
> People think that because they can keep a couple of machines talking to
> each
> other at home, that their environment is the same as someone like Dave's
> at
> Wisconsin, and that all this crap is really simple.
>
> Sometimes I think making Sysadmin'ing into an actual Engineering
> discipline
> would help a lot.
>
If by "actual Engineering disipline", you are implying the establishment
of professional standards and ethics, then that would be a big step
towards being a "profession". The problem then would be, what do you do
with all the people who work as sysadmins now? How can they officially
become a "System Administration Engineer" without having to go back to
school and study any areas they "picked up along the way".
--
Patrick Schwisow
Web Information Manager
Waukegan Public School District 60
http://www.waukeganschools.org/
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