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I experienced the complete opposite. I worked with senior system administrators, who worked on a newbie level.

One extreme example, when using "git"[1], which went straight to the first place of my hall of shame[1]:

    $ git commit --all --message="$(curl 'http://api.icndb.com/jokes/random')"
Yes, can you feel it? The awesomeness of backtracking issues?

And a few sayings, which I came up with[2] immeadiately after seeing this kind of crap:

    * Using your ten-year-experience as your only argument is invalid. It is indeed possible to do things in a wrong way for ten years.

    * The faster you climb up the career ladder, the more incompetent you will get, due to the lack of skill.
I hated working with them, because they knew everything better than me. I was "just a junior" to that time.

Oh well, I am glad, that I am not working with them anymore, otherwise I would become headless zombie administrators like them, who like to work quick and dirty all the time without having a thought about refactoring something.

Another saying; this time from Miyamoto Musashi[3], which I align and agree to:

    * There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside yourself.
-Keks

PS: This one is also a banger:

    $ git commit --all --message="$(curl 'https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random')"
[1] https://github.com/keks24/conventions#commits

[2] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Keks24#Ramon_Fischer

[3] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Keks24#Miyamoto_Musashi



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