On 10-10-29 10:04 AM, Gilbert Wilson wrote: >> >>> Something I have now come to accept that I might never see in my life time, >>> but I still think it is good for the next generation: An attempt at making >>> system administration more organised and more professional. >> >> I have pretty much given up on that. I'm just trying to get out of the IT >> business, but I expect the Masters program I just started to take 5+ >> years. > > When folks talk about making our field more professional and more > organized, what do they mean?
Agreeing on SOME best practices some status system that can be lost through bad practice Publish standards and recommendations as a group of practitioners. > What field are you comparing us to as a > symbol of professionalism? Frankly, I haven't seen any other field be > any more or less professional than the sys admin field. > Airline pilots Architects Electricians Engineers Lawyers Medical doctors Plumbers No project manager / team lead / owner can override one of those guy's decision. All of those guys can lose their 'ticket' because of malpractice. Every time we've had that discussion, we end up in a two camp systems, half of us would like to see something like, half of us think this is just like a union and serve no other interest than job protection. They're going to be about 20 emails about it, then we won't talk about it for a year or so. -- Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/ http://images.SollerS.ca/ xmpp:[email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
