I would not want to lock myself in a particular position, if I were at your age. Technology changes over time, and demand for a particular knowledge is changing with it. If at this point you would like to be a sys admin, do that. But do not neglect academic education (as oppose to training & certification). I would even suggest that you put higher priority to it, and does sys. admin part time. Things are changing, and changing fast.
The heated job market makes students wants to graduate ASAP, and start making money. There is no drive to do any significant research. To make it worst, many universities (bowing to industry) do not require thesis as part of the requirement for graduate students anymore. Greed & the proliferation of intellectual (mostly idiotic) properties and their legal power is somwhat counterproductive to the advancement of research It might be that the economy has to turn sour first, for the science to start growing again. I think at this point we all just concentrating on doing small thing (and market it big time) to gain monetary advantage. At sometime this should saturate, at least that is what I am hoping.
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I would not want to lock myself in a particular position, if I were at your age. Technology changes over time, and demand for a particular knowledge is changing with it. If at this point you would like to be a sys admin, do that. But do not neglect academic education (as oppose to training & certification). I would even suggest that you put higher priority to it, and does sys. admin part time. Things are changing, and changing fast.
The heated job market makes students wants to graduate ASAP, and start making money. There is no drive to do any significant research. To make it worst, many universities (bowing to industry) do not require thesis as part of the requirement for graduate students anymore. Greed & the proliferation of intellectual (mostly idiotic) properties and their legal power is somwhat counterproductive to the advancement of research It might be that the economy has to turn sour first, for the science to start growing again. I think at this point we all just concentrating on doing small thing (and market it big time) to gain monetary advantage. At sometime this should saturate, at least that is what I am hoping.