Not OC: Just found this on my old hard drive while grabbing some other stuff.

  • nick
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    9 months ago

    A fellow sysadmin, I thought we went extinct. I had to pivot to “infrastructure engineer” but it’s basically the same thing nowadays.

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      9 months ago

      Job titles in IT don’t mean anything these days.

      In particular, the term “engineer” has been butchered beyond recognition.

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        9 months ago

        Wait so you’re telling me I’m NOT an engineer?

        Agreed. I usually say developer because I view engineers as people who do actual engineering. I’m more of a plumber who fits pipes (pieces of software) together.

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          9 months ago

          My first job was as an “engineer”.

          I spent most my time resetting passwords and setting up Outlook…

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          9 months ago

          Wait so you’re telling me I’m NOT an engineer?

          Are you licensed by the state? There’s your answer!

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            9 months ago

            These days it’s more “do you have an engineering degree from an accredited University.”

            The vast majority of engineering diplomas are not in licensed areas.

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          Iirc it’s full blown illegal to call yourself an engineer in Canada unless you’re a licensed engineer. Meaning that if you marketed yourself as a software engineer without an engineering license, you could technically get in trouble. Not that I think they really enforce that for “Software Engineer”.

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      9 months ago

      Not quite extinct, but endangered.

      Thankfully there’s been a recent trend of companies pulling back out of the cloud because reality set in and they’re neither saving money nor getting a better experience than they had with their on-prem solutions.

      So, if that trend holds, we’ll hopefully go from endangered to merely threatened.

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      9 months ago

      I have two weeks left as a sysadmin and I’m transitioning to development. My experiences in sysadmin are a big reason I got in the door with little coding experience. A lot of devs don’t have an in depth knowledge about computers outside of programming, and knowing that extra stuff can certainly raise the ceiling.