[Gllug] where do older sys admins end up?

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Dec 29 15:58:24 UTC 2010


On Wednesday, 29 Dec 2010, john maclean wrote:
>Where do older systems administrators end up? I don't know that many
>programmers in their 50/60 and it suddenly dawned on me that I don't
>know any sys admins in that age range.

I do, but partly it's just that the field has expanded. Someone
retiring from sysadmin at 65 today might have started as a
pimply-faced youth of 20 in 1965. But how many sysadmin jobs were
there in 1965?

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