As a system admin and developer second I tend to code to make my primary job even less of a burden. My direct boss jokes he could care less how busy I am not as long as I am there when it hits the fan.
Yet it can be a brain drain when you run out of things to do, being a social butterfly was a skill I had to learn. In the course of that activity I did find work through helping others as we did work on the same platform. I could code and work up wonders in SQL simply because I had the idle time to learn what I wanted to do.
Still it would be nice to not be in a box. Then again I am not sure what I would do with not so integrated and reliable systems that I do watch over.
Yet it can be a brain drain when you run out of things to do, being a social butterfly was a skill I had to learn. In the course of that activity I did find work through helping others as we did work on the same platform. I could code and work up wonders in SQL simply because I had the idle time to learn what I wanted to do.
Still it would be nice to not be in a box. Then again I am not sure what I would do with not so integrated and reliable systems that I do watch over.