Requirements of a SysAdmin:

[SARCASM] - Sorry long week and it's only Tuesday!

1. Slap head every time management says: We just bought One Million dollars worth of **** – I mean Software.
1a. Make One Million dollar piece of **** work.

2. At least a BS in Computer Science. With all the BS in this game, you'll need at least that much.

3. Good Networking Skills - So that you actually know that your multi-million dollar network is down and the users aren't just complaining because they haven't got the skills, training or a clue as to how to USE it.

4. Good Communications Skills - So that you can tell a user tactfully and diplomatically that if he (or she) ever does anything as stupid as that again, that you are personally going to choke the living **** out of them.

5. A Secondary Job Skill - So that when you eventually BURN OUT, you won't starve. You want extra pickle on that?

6. A deep streak of Masochism, very little life and the ability to wake up nice and cheery at 2am to a panicked phone call from an idiot user who has just done something stupid that is going to cost you two weeks work.

7. The patience of Job (for eventually you will wish to curse God and die).

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