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Originally Posted by Superflyer
Another profession is IT. One of the main reasons here is that IT gets no respect. Almost every business needs them and yet they give them no respect as a profession. People still think that they are a bunch of geeks that have nothing better to do all day but work on a computer.
I am lucky now, I finally got into a job where I am respected for what I do. They realize that if we were not here they would be trying to figure out well pressures and transit rates with a pencil, paper and calculator. But before I started where I am IT sucked, when the network and computers were up and running fine (which was about 98% of the time) we were told that we were useless cause everything w as fine, but when something went down we were told that we were useless because things were ALWAYS broken.
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Pfft, you just fill a hole that needs filling. What kind of respect do you want? You don't do anything special. Should I have people bowing down to me because if I didn't do my job there would be countless Diagnostic Imaging rooms around the city without power? That's pretty important stuff.
I've been with three different companies now, and it's been the same with all three. The IT guy gets a ticket, he performs the work, and he leaves. Job well done. I don't see why he needs a pat on the back.
Everyone thinks they're underappreciated and underpaid, when the fact is they're usually neither.