[META] How to be an expert

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Jun 13th 2006 at 08:51 -0400, quoth Ken D'Ambrosio:

=>On Tue, June 13, 2006 8:46 am, Paul Lussier wrote:
=>
=>> So, let's see, 8hours/day * ~12 years of being a sysadmin = ~35,000
=>> hours.  So, by that statistic, I'm an expert.  Why is it then I still feel
=>> so ignorant about what I do ? :)
=>
=>That's an easy one: because "sysadmin" is simply a metalabel for "someone
=>who knows a bit about a whole hell of a lot of different things," eg.,
=>Linux (kernel), programs (eg., LDAP, Emacs), programming (Perl, Python),
=>networking, storage, protocols, etc., etc., etc.

There are good ones out there, but I've run into a bunch of sysadmins who 
got their title by knowing how to get the printer working. ;-)

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