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If you want easy money in IT, be a .NET developer. There's plenty of those making insane money who have NO idea what they're doing. The good ones are few and far between.
It's insulting when people think our job is easy.
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Originally Posted by GlebeH
Let me try the path of .NET developer. Is free Community version of Visual Studio okay for building most software?
I was a Unix Sys Admin for an automated drafting system for an engineering department. We started with a Sun server and a Sybase database. So I also became the DBA. After using a proprietary system installed by Xerox for a number of years we decided to reprogram the whole system in house and move to HP servers and an Oracle database to save on the Xerox rental and maintenance fees.
When we reprogrammed the automated drafting system in house I designed the database and installed and set up the new HP servers. Being a Sys Admin gave me a better handle on being a DBA and vice versa. Unix scripts allowed me to automate all my database queries and move the results to other programs. Being a sys admin was more interesting than being a dba. The majority of my time was being a sys admin. DBA tasks were minimal once everything was set up and automated.
Being a sys admin was not just creating accounts, doing backups and restorations and setting passwords. I had to understand hardware, software, networking, raids, peripherals, and how to immediately find and stop runaway processes before they crashed the server hard drives. I learned to set up and install a server from scratch, including partitioning the drives, installing the OS, installing programs and writing unix shell scripts to automate processes like backups and data dumps and generate confirmation emails that the processes had occurred, set up communications and networking with other platforms and peripherals, install hardware boards and drives and memory.
Sys admin jobs can start at junior levels. I don't know how much of a pay cut you will have to take if you become a jr. sys admin. Sys admin jobs are often available on evening and night shifts.
Ed Snowden was a unix sys admin. When politicians said he didn't have security clearance for certain programs I had to laugh. The sys admin has access to everything and controls everything. As a sys admin you can destroy a whole server in about 10 seconds so you have to know what you are doing, be cool under pressure and be 100% trustworthy.
There's plenty of demand for it according to Indeed but I have yet to meet an actual python developer.
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There's plenty of those making insane money who have NO idea what they're doing. The good ones are few and far between.
