Thank you again @TheKinrar for Mastodon.xyz! You fixed that cert issue right quick. 😄
Sysadmin work tends to be invisible and thankless - until something breaks.
Having been in their shoes most of my career, I try to resist the natural urge to get annoyed and complain when things break. Especially if it's rare and they get fixed quickly.
Don't judge work only by errors and mistakes - it's more fair to consider how well (or poorly) problems are handled.
Also consider: in Mastodon-land, often the admin work is a hobby. If it hobbies stop being fun, people find other hobbies...
@HerraBRE I thought of an idea to add some public visibility to a colleague who is a sysadmin, so I created an 'initial' blog post about some excellent recent work he did and he later polished it off (a lot of it off with more detail) and I later published under his name. Gave him some visibility in the public company site.
@HerraBRE @superruserr For me, it's always been important to be able to talk or write about what I'm doing to keep myself motivated. That's a lot easier now that we have an internal social network platform in the company - posting somewhere public always means removing information or generalizing on what I've actually been doing, and writing develops into an additional job instead of a vent.
(I'm aware that putting some effort into it would certainly be more useful to others... Yeah well...)
@superruserr Nice! That was really helpful of you.
It's often the nature of admin work that if you don't tell people what you are doing, they have no idea. But being a good admin and being good at (justified) self promotion is a rare combination.