In my new company there are only three full time employees and a pool of freelancers that we use when we have lots of work going on. This means that we are able to keep our month overheads down and be pretty agile when needed. However, this also means that in general each of us has to wear about three different hats depending on what is happening, unlike larger companies where you generally have a single role to fulfill.
One of my additional roles in the companies is to be one of the two sysadmin monkeys, the other being Damian. This is not something that is completely new to me as I did do a small bit of sysadmin work in my previous job. However, this is on a completely different scale. I thought that I’d loath this part of the job, but today proved that actually I quite enjoy crawling around the servers hard disk and finding solutions.