What to choose from 2 specializations that you like - Linux administration or web development?

Question

Career in IT

I was going to move to St. Petersburg and thought about further specialization.
Introductory:

1. I am 27 years old.
   
2. Administration I have 6 years of experience in administration / enikeystvo
   , of which the last 2.5 years - administration of Ubuntu, CentOS.
   Solved the following tasks - to raise a proxy, a file server (both using normal rights and ACLs), DHCP / DNS servers, configure a firewall (iptables), VPN. After getting acquainted with Linux, I decided for myself that I don’t want to deal with small soft ones, I don’t want to be an office administrator either, and if I look for a job, then only administering Linux-based servers
   
3. Web development (and programming in general)
   No experience as such. There are courses on HTML / CSS, Python, PHP (after the course on Python, PHP seemed to be somehow very easy and not the most beautiful language) and a third of Ruby passed on codecademy.com . For Python, I'm also finishing Dawson's book.
   

As a result, I struggle in two directions - *nix administration (I know that I need to catch up in this direction) and web development, in which, in turn, I can’t make a choice in the direction of PL / framework - Ruby (RoR) / Python (Django) / PHP (too much holivar on this score, it catches my eye every day).
With web development, for example, RoR, it is not clear whether, for example, such a course will give a profit and an opportunity to find a job.
Thanks to.

Answer 1

This is related knowledge. Develop in both.

Answer 2

There is no experience as such.

It decides.
If you know at least some programming languages ​​before, then in PHP you can start riveting something at least on the first day after you start learning. And they rivet (with often deplorable consequences).
And to get a job after the courses only ... Too optimistic.

Answer 3

Become an admin. And then whatever. Moreover, you are already reading Python, and admins write a lot in scripting languages.

Answer 4

A similar problem, only I'm not a Linux, but a Windows enikey. Well, a little younger...
At the same time, I want to quit everything the fuck and go to at least some kind of web development, but the under-junior did not give up to anyone for more or less adequate money.

Answer 5

In my opinion, web development is more promising, especially since neither Windows nor office administration suits you, and without them (more precisely, with a guarantee of their absence), the niche remains not very large. PHP, of course, is not sugar, but enikeyism at the age of 30, I think, is even more dead end.