Where should a sysadmin go?

Question

System administration

Hello.
Tell me what to do in the following situation:
In the organization where I work, over the last year of the construction of the facility, the policy "There is free time, help the PTO engineers! If you don't want it, we'll eat it! (We'll put it on a salary) We'll find another!". This affected almost everyone, except, perhaps, an accountant. During the year of such a policy, many quit, but I tried to hold on (because of the high salary), simultaneously refusing to fulfill:

• not their official duties
  
• absolutely non-core and uninteresting work for me
  

In general, taking into account both personal and external factors, the following picture emerges:

• Tired of fighting
  
• Tired of a 6-day work week from 8 to 20 and lack of sleep
  
• no time for health care
  
• Not enough time to study
  
• The topic is being actively discussed on the Internet that the market is overflowing with system administrators, therefore salaries do not grow, it is easier to take enikeevs, the profession is dying out, etc. (Is it so?)
  

Options that are under development / reflection:

• Since there is only 1 person in the state for the central office and branches at the rate of "software engineer", and this is me, then ask to be transferred to the central office in the city of M., organize an IT department, knowing the whole picture from below, coordinate your management, reception to work as an assistant and steer from the central office
  
• Return home to the Far East, where perhaps by the spring there will be a sysadmin's headquarters in the police. Get settled, work, and along the way learn *nix, programming languages ​​(Python, SQL, PHP) and English. *nix to open your office for the implementation of free solutions. Python and so on in order to become a programmer.
  
• Some other more promising option. (Go to progers, DBAs, engineers, go to Zimbabwe, etc.)
  

Answer 1

Firstly, everything that is more than 40 hours a week is in the furnace. Learn to work as much as you are paid for. It's okay to violate the labor code. 8 hours a day and that's it, if they force you to work more - let them go through the forest, no one can force them. It is even possible to agree to some part of some leftist duties (but not desirable) within these 8 working hours. Do not recycle - it is very important if you are not paid for processing, I think they are not paid after all. Immediately there will be time for something else, plus increased efficiency during the working day. Get some sleep first and start exercising in the morning. And quit drinking coffee, especially instant coffee. If you smoke, you can also quit. Start working clearly on the clock, as far as possible, let them get used to it. Ideally, you should strictly adhere to the work schedule. It will get easier after a while. Then start doing something in terms of professional development. First, decide what you want to do. This will also take some time.
As for the reduction in salaries due to the crisis - a complete lie, they just want to put on everyone's shoes in bulk. It will be more profitable to fire one fucking pseudo-manager than a technical specialist.
Discipline and self-control is the very first thing, take care of it. Now, judging by the work schedule, you have a mess at work. If there is a job description (suddenly there is) - read it.
Regarding the transfer to the central office - if you think about it, you can certainly resolve the issue without a transfer. Communications are now well developed.
Something like that.

Answer 2

worked as a system administrator for 5 years. I myself live in a not very large city with a population of 500 thousand people. it is really interesting to work as a sysadmin in just a few organizations. a couple of large providers and one large plant. everything else is uninteresting garbage with 90% of everyday life.
retrained as a programmer and is very satisfied. working conditions are better, progers also have better salaries, the work itself is many times more interesting. in general, for myself, I found only pluses in such a solution

Answer 3

In my opinion, only you yourself can give an answer to this question ...
Maybe you are just tired?
Try to explain to the employer that if you are not doing anything now, then you have done a lot for this before.
If he doesn’t understand, fuck him, or invent a job for yourself.
They just usually think - "What for I pay him that kind of money if he does nothing."
And you can go to many places, but are you ready for this?

Answer 4

Study and study again. ©
Where is this "The market is full of system administrators ..."? There are very few knowledgeable, responsible people, but there are really a lot of “system administrators”.