Quote Originally Posted by Sunshine
...She even wants me to take a course in C programming when she comes back. Nervous….yes. Looking forward to the chance to learn it….yes.
Sysadmin taking programming classes?

Unless you personally intend on going that route professionally, I'd recommend you don't. Wearing many hats today is a fact of life in IT, but adding programming to your chores - huh - tasks (http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif) runs the risk of lowering your attention and involvement in your current projects.

Of course, that all depends what they need you to do and what you're aiming for professionally. Programming looks good on a résumé, but bears little weight to system administration tasks. If it was Java...

I'm looking forward to SMS 2003, WLAN and misc. security classes, even going as far as SQL, but programming won't make my short list any time soon, even though it was my strongest field back in school.