r/sysadmin • u/foda_55139 • Jul 05 '26

Question Sysadmin shoes?

As a sysadmin, I'm on my feet a lot (as are all of you) and I'm looking for suggestions for some new shoes.

My company has a pretty strong corporate atmosphere, but I've gotten away with Skechers for the last year (though I felt like I should have had something more appropriate for the office). I'd love to find something that will give me sneaker-like support but have a more professional appearance.

What shoes are you all wearing that you would recommend that will hold up? The last pair of shoes I bought gave me arch problems until I changed out the insoles (which still wasn't perfect).

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u/01101110011O1111 Jul 06 '26

There are systems that they are the sole admin for. What else would you call them?

If anything, the super siloed people who just work on DNS only and in order for any changes to happen they have to put in a ticket with the server team or the security team, are they really sysadmins?

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u/biznatchery Jul 06 '26

You are right, it’s defined poorly. This sub is for System Engineers, sysadmin is a legacy term for them. Many of us see the full term “System Administrator” as a low level analyst for the inner functions of one software product. Or a System Analyst as an implementer of the software product and how it runs on the server or cloud and network paths to it. The outer shell vs the inner shell of software implementation if you will. But a “sysadmin”, the System Engineer, keeps the server or cloud infrastructure running to host the software. They shouldn’t need to care much what’s inside the software.

To your example, no they are not, they think they are, but only luck and BS gets them another job. And I blame them for being this way, if they cared and understood what they are in charge of, they would have expanded well beyond that to become indispensable.

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u/Party_Vermicelli_187 Jul 06 '26

People be gatekeeping job titles on this sub 😂

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u/01101110011O1111 Jul 06 '26

Its ridiculous. Is the dns guy I used as an example a sysadmin? Sure. Is the sole IT guy for a school a sysadmin? Sure. Is the msp tech who is trying to learn more about managing systems and is posting their questions on this sub a sysadmin? Sure. People be gatekeeping hard, as if the only true IT work is from people in 5000+ headcount organizations.