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Originally Posted by GrouchyAdmin
That's not necessarily true; some people change jobs. Sometimes, an admin gets bored and picks up a book, and sometimes a programmer learns it's good to not depend on the OS as a garbage collector. A hack is a hack in any job that they do. 
Regardless, good luck with the search - I don't know if any of the professionals I've worked with would want to leave mainstream, but I'll put out a few feelers. |
I don't think picking up a book is good enough. I've done my fair share of programming, I know several languages and can code just about anything.
However, being a sysadmin, I don't find the patience to tutor some thousands
lines of code for several months.
On the other side, no matter how good of a programmer you are, you won't be able to do the same job as a sysadmin that for years managed networks.
OS dependancy and garbage collectors have nothing to do with sysadmin.
That being said, I wouldn't exclude that there are people out there that can
do both as good, but thats the exception from the rule.