Wednesday, May 9, 2007

The 4 Curses of IT

I found this today online, it's so absolutely true. For any of you who work in iT, you are very familar with the curses:

The four curses of the IT biz are:

1) If you do a great job, nobody notices. They only notice when things go wrong.

2) Nobody outside of IT really knows what you do. They don't know the difference between a junior PC tech and a senior network security expert, or between a kid who has learned some HTML and a seasoned programmer who can handle large-scale, multi-platform development efforts.

3) Anybody who's unafraid of their home PC knows as much as you do. Just ask them. Corollary: Why doesn't our entire corporation do things the way I do them at home?

4) Your friends, neighbors, and relatives can ask you for free help on whatever computer problems they're having, big or small.

And another one that just missed the cut "All techies can do all tech jobs". Webmasters can troubleshoot network problems, Database guys can troubleshoot email server problems, etc. But that's more of a myth than a curse.