One perk of being a sysadmin
Not long till System administrator appreciation day, now.
It's been a while since I've been a sysadmin, and I only had that thankless job for about a year, but at the Friday bar I noticed that I have more interesting stories from that time than from all the time I've been a programmer. There's just very little of story value about programming. "The server crashed, and it was just because I'd forgotten a semicolon" is not as interesting as "I cleaned up /scratch, and a Ph.D. student lost his only copy of his thesis".
It's been a while since I've been a sysadmin, and I only had that thankless job for about a year, but at the Friday bar I noticed that I have more interesting stories from that time than from all the time I've been a programmer. There's just very little of story value about programming. "The server crashed, and it was just because I'd forgotten a semicolon" is not as interesting as "I cleaned up /scratch, and a Ph.D. student lost his only copy of his thesis".