by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
As a job seeker, I often run into inexplicable confusion between these two job titles.<\/strong><\/p>\n I am a systems engineer. I do systems engineering<\/a>. I am not a systems administrator<\/a>. I do not do systems administration. A quick read of the two Wikipedia articles linked above shows that the two professions are not even close.<\/p>\n At some place at some time in our recent history, someone confused the two professions. Someone decided that it was okay to call system administrators “systems engineers.” I am not sure what no-doubt-well-meaning person decided this, but they did the world of engineering and science and technology a great disservice.<\/p>\n I wish someone in authority would correct his mistake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips As a job seeker, I often run into inexplicable confusion between these two job titles. I am a systems engineer. I do systems engineering. I am not a systems administrator. I do not do systems administration. A quick read of the two Wikipedia articles linked above shows that the two professions are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,18,115],"tags":[154,140,227],"class_list":["post-1916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-employment","category-engineering","tag-communication","tag-employment","tag-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1917,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1916\/revisions\/1917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}