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Originally Posted by V
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.
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See this is what I mean, I am not saying that IT is more important then other jobs out there. There are many other jobs that are more important then what we do but I would not do them, my choice.
But what I am saying is what you discribed in your they get a ticket, do a job and leave. If your computer is down and not working at all who gets the crap for that.....If it is not fixed in 15 minutes while you go for coffee who gets the crap.....if there is a specific program that is not working that you decided to install yourself who gets the crap....
I get this all the time, people who think that they know computers cause they have one at home and can surf the internet they know all there is to know and they install crap and modify stuff then when it breaks it is not there fault.
I am also not saying that I am underpaid cause as I said before I got lucky and found a compnay that knows what we do. I am paid well, not overpaid but well enough. But when people break into the world of IT they can expect pay that is relative to working at McD's and such.