On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:22:18, Alex Morken wrote:
>
>>
>>> System administration is an entire profession.
>>
>> This point is debatable. Professions typically require their
>> members to
>> meet certain licensing requirements. I cannot practice medicine or
>> law
>> without a license, but there is no such restriction on system
>> administration.
>
>
> Then no IT related work is really a profession. Sorry programmers...
> That makes sense. And being a CEO, or working in politics, or
> marketing, or graphic design aren't professions. And the list goes
> on and on...shall I go henry miller on you and fill up pages?
I don't believe those jobs are professions under the literal meaning of
the word.
>From http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/profession :
> 4 a : a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and
> intensive academic preparation
One can become a system administrator without ANY academic preparation
(e.g. the "teacher as sysadmin").
>From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession :
> A profession is an occupation that requires extensive training and the
> study and mastery of specialized knowledge, and usually has a
> professional association, ethical code and process of certification or
> licensing. Examples are accounting, law, nursing, medicine, finance, the
> military, the clergy and engineering.
Also the sections of that article regarding "Common qualities of
professions" and "How to find definitions of professionalism".
> I really don't think that it is debatable simply because there isn't
> a licensing requirement to do it - in fact the logic to make that
> statement requires a pretty large disconnect from a little thing I
> like to call "reality".
The reality is that ANYONE can be put into the role of sysadmin. There is
no way to clearly differentiate between a "professional" and an "amateur".
That is precisely why this is such a problem.
> Sorry, but that was pretty elitist and a bit insulting to any
> profession that doesn't have licensing requirements...
>
I did not intend to be insulting. I'm just informing you what the meaning
of the word "profession" is and pointing out how "system administrator"
does not fit that definition.
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Patrick Schwisow
Web Information Manager
Waukegan Public School District 60
http://www.waukeganschools.org/
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