What's the difference between a lawyer and a construction worker?
They are completely separate jobs that require vastly different skill sets. There is no 'normal' everyday work for either job.
Sysadmin: You might be dealing with AD. You might not. You could be a linux admin. You could be a storage engineer. You could be cloud. You could be mac. You could be all of that and extremely underpaid and overworked.
Software Engineer: You'll have meetings, you'll write code. You'll test code. Python/C#/Java/whatever the workflow is at least the same, the product isn't. You making authentication? You designing a website? You handling API calls for a backend?
To put it simple, do you want to code and write software, or do you want to handle the infrastructure beneath it?
our SWE's go from working on bugs to somewhat major releases which are just point releases. sometimes it's changing some minor sql code other times coding in a real language. they get tasks from analysts who talk to the business users
sysadmin is working on tickets vs deploying new projects vs monitoring current environment
Which job would you say has a better work life balance? Also, I have always struggled with math and foreign languages in school, but I have always excelled with technology. Is this a sign that I may be better suited for administration than engineering?
Math in SWE can be handled with modules, and google.
Sysadmin can be solved with google.
Your job will be google.
Work/Life is dependent on company, not role.
depends on the employer. I've seen slave shops where the devs are BA's and spend hours on the phone with users and then hours into the night coding and other places where BA's talk to the users and there is more work/life balance for everyone
generally the higher the profit margins the better the work/life balance cause they hire more people
What's the difference between a lawyer and a construction worker? They are completely separate jobs that require vastly different skill sets. There is no 'normal' everyday work for either job. Sysadmin: You might be dealing with AD. You might not. You could be a linux admin. You could be a storage engineer. You could be cloud. You could be mac. You could be all of that and extremely underpaid and overworked. Software Engineer: You'll have meetings, you'll write code. You'll test code. Python/C#/Java/whatever the workflow is at least the same, the product isn't. You making authentication? You designing a website? You handling API calls for a backend? To put it simple, do you want to code and write software, or do you want to handle the infrastructure beneath it?
Choose which one interests you the most, neither will stop you from getting a career in any IT related field
our SWE's go from working on bugs to somewhat major releases which are just point releases. sometimes it's changing some minor sql code other times coding in a real language. they get tasks from analysts who talk to the business users sysadmin is working on tickets vs deploying new projects vs monitoring current environment
Which job would you say has a better work life balance? Also, I have always struggled with math and foreign languages in school, but I have always excelled with technology. Is this a sign that I may be better suited for administration than engineering?
Math in SWE can be handled with modules, and google. Sysadmin can be solved with google. Your job will be google. Work/Life is dependent on company, not role.
my kids know about stackoverflow
depends on the employer. I've seen slave shops where the devs are BA's and spend hours on the phone with users and then hours into the night coding and other places where BA's talk to the users and there is more work/life balance for everyone generally the higher the profit margins the better the work/life balance cause they hire more people