How useful do you find the CS education in a sys admin job? Seems like its a lot of programming and very little thats practically useful in a sys admin/network admin type job.

I'm currently a sys admin for a fairly large company (40 sites in canada) doing regular sys admin tasks + network admin stuff, but i've never taken a comp sci course. Kinda wondering what i've missed out on, and if i should look at doing some CS courses part-time.

Should i need to look for a new job in the near future my resume will look pretty sad.

whats the starting to ceiling wage of a systems admin?

took 110. fuck dr.racket

Wasn't useful at all. I really took next to nothing from my CompSci background towards what I'm doing as a systems administrator.

http://www.payscale.com/research/CA/...strator/Salary

There is a LOT of competition for systems administrator positions... because it's so easy to get at least the basic skills necessary for it. So many people learn basic networking and take care of their own computers, so then they decide to try doing it as a career.

When I applied for a UBC systems administrator position a year ago, they had a pre-interview written test for the candidates, and there were so many that it had to be split into two sessions... I think probably about 60-80 people total. Don't even know if this was all of the people who applied, or just those they selected to come in.