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Theres a thin line in the two.
Beeing a professional programmer, you need to know somethig about how the system works.
Beeing a Sys Admin, you need to know how to solve problems with programming skills.
Naturaly, becomming a professional programmer, will teach you the basic structures of how to make an effecient program, aswell as give you insight into almost every programming language.
Where beeing a Sys Admin, will only teach you the basic programming languages, like C/perl/python/shell-scripting. And finding a usable programming structure is up to you, to develop.
But on the other hand, Becomming a Sys Admin will give you great insight, as to how the network is functioning, with switches/routers and such, as a professionel programmer, you will learn this part at a much lower level ie:
Network level 1-3 is located on the NIC, you need to create level 4 and 5, which will figure out what program the package is intended for, and decifer the data it's containing.
You just gotta figure out, where your passion is, if you like to sit and munch code at 4am. (like some of us) Then it's Programmer you should become. If you like to take apart your machine, and see what the latest gizmo wil do, when inserted. (like some of us) Then it's Sys Admin, you should try.
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