Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Monday 14 October 2013 13:41:51 berenger.morel@neutralite.org 
wrote:
> I have no idea about how it works in other countries, but in
> France, when the enterprise is big enough, sysadmins does not take
> care of single systems. That job is left to people with less
> qualifications.

I think that the problem here is semantics.  The distinction between 
those with fewer qualifications, and those with more, does not seem 
to me to be meaningful in English, whatever may be the case with the 
French word that you are translating with the English word sysadmin, 
and is not implicit in the term.

Wiktionary says:

<quote>
sysadmin (plural sysadmins)
Systems administrator; a person whose job it is to maintain computer 
or network systems.
</quote>

<quote>
job (plural jobs)
1.    A task.
        I've got a job for you - could you wash the dishes?
        And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that 
you bang - Tom Cruise in the movie Jerry Maguire

2.    An economic role for which a person is paid.
        That surgeon has a great job.
        He's been out of a job since being made redundant in January.
</quote>

Although "job" _can_ mean an economic role for which a person is paid, 
that is its secondary meaning.

Primarily it means something someone does.

In our household, it is my husband's job to grow the vegitables and it 
is my job to cook them.  Neither of us gets paid for it.

Lisi