These days I deep dive into lots of white papers. Amazing what findings you can surface with. Including interesting and funny stuff (In IT? Yes I know. Who'd have thought?)
Like the article on the dirtiest IT jobs that include being a reboot specialist (haha, we definitely needed these during the decentralized age), a help-desk zombie, or even an enterprise espionage engineer - slippery individuals comfortable with lying, cheating, stealing, breaking, and entering for penetration testing of enterprise networks (ooh, nasty.)
I also discovered that I was once an interdepartmental peace negotiator who is a self-starter and skilled at moderating tech disputes between warring factions within or between companies. And who must possess experience in ego-stroking, manipulative massage, and hand-to-hand combat. (heh-heh, yeap that about sums up the JTOR) Cats and dogs, Democrats and Republicans, Martians and Venutians -- they're downright chummy compared to warring departments within many enterprises. Unfortunately, at some point they've got to pull together for the good of the company. That's when you call in the negotiator to smooth ruffled feathers and break up the fights. (Smooth..)
Read more on dirty jobs here.
Also some hard truths IT people must accept - a) Your users will NEVER be able to support themselves. Even if the system works 100% (a miracle, I might add), it is too much to expect all the users are able to figure out the system completely. Thus you becoming the support zombie (see above).
b) between patches installation and upgrades, your network security WILL be breached. It is only a matter of when. c) you have lost control on how your company uses IT. Consumerization and cloud will invade. And last but not the least d) IT will never get the respect it deserves. They call it the 'Rodney Dangerfield Syndrome'. (fyi Dangerfield is an American comedian whose phrase 'I get no respect' made him popular in the 80's)
More IT hard truths here.
All Dilbert cartoons (and more funny ones) here.
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