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The Four Curses of the IT Biz
Topic(s): Floundering Users
Submitted by: renman – Wed, 01/10/2007 – 19:25

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.