Sysadmins are a funny old lot.
We voluntarily walk into icy / roasting server rooms then spend hours on end being deafened by fans. Put our hands into razor sharp server racks, poke around high voltage, high current power lines. Work out of hours so others can have, even after working all your regular time. Get dragged into spiralling pits of despair by users who should never have been given a computer EVER. Spend hour after tedious hour making sure that progress bar hits the 100% mark, over and over again.
it would be so much easier to explain my schedule if I had a meth habit.
You send email after email explaining that x will be out for y, then get users screaming that you did what you said you would but they had ignored your email and the didn’t know. The only way to make sure users read your email is to either hover next to them forcing them to look at it, or stand in front of a group of them like a teacher and tell them all at once.
If your THE sysadmin you end up on call 24/7 because nobody else can be bothered to find out how things work.
All this reenforces my belief that sysadmins are just the janitors of the tech world. When was the last time anyone noticed that things are still working? The sysadmin is derided and chastised as soon as something breaks though.
Yet we return day after day to keep the plates spinning.
We do what we must
Because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are deadGLaDOS
We are the digital janitors mopping up the mess.
